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WHAT we call the fecond Crop of Figs, is aétually the very firlt 
that are produced by the Shoot they grow on; and thofe which we call 
the firft Crop, are laft produced. 
THIS at firft may appear to be a Paradox, but “tis a€tually Mattet 
of Fact, becaufe thofe Figs which ripen in September, are always pro- 
duced on the fame Year's Wood, and neareft to the laft Year’s Shoots : 
And as they are produced early in the Spring, when the Shoot is firft 
form’d, they are therefore at theic Maturity much fooner than thofe 
which ate produc’d in the extreme Parts of the Shoots, when their 
Growths are nearly at an End, and fearcely vifible to the naked 
Eye. 
THESE firft ptoduced Figs, of the white Kitid, do frequently 
tipen with us, even in the open Air from either Walls or Pails ; but 
the other Kinds very rarely do: Thefe laft produced Fruits at the Ends 
of the Shoots, if not kill’d by the fucceeding Winter, make the firft Advance 
in the next Spring, and ripen very early ; during which Time Nature 
is at wWork;—producic g-new-Shoors for new Produétions; and fo on during 
the Life of the Tree. OO ary eye | 
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{T has been a Cuftom among Gardeners, to keep Fig-T rees fiail’d 
clofe to the Wall, as other Fruit-Trees ; but it appears, by many Ex- 
periments made, that ‘tis entirely wrong, for Experience has prov'd, that 
thofe which are fuffer’d to grow about two Feet from the Wall, are not 
only the beft Fruits, but are produc’d in much greater Abundance. 
~ THE beft Method of Ordeting the Fig-Tree, isto nip off their leading 
Buds of the Branches, about the Middle of Fune, which will acce- 
lerate the Ripening of thofe Fruits which are commonly called the fecond 
Crop, and caufe great Plenty of young Wood to fhoot out all over the 
‘Trees, whereby the Whole becomes fruitful, becaufe the Fruits are 
always produced, as aforefaid, from the laft Year's Shoots. But. whert 
Fig-Trees are nail’d in at full Lengths, after the old and common Mes 
 thod, their Fruits are always produced at’ the extreme Parts of the Trees,. 
and all their middle Parts are full of large barren ‘Wood only: 
CH A P: 
