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as we believe, Europe affords, in the arboretum of Messrs. 

 Loddiges (Gard. Mag. vol. i. p. 318.) The well-known liber- 

 ality of these gentlemen will, we are sure, afford free access 

 and every facility for making the necessary observations. 

 We shall be happy to suggest what we consider the best plan 

 of proceeding, and of arranging the list, and when com- 

 pleted to publish it in the Gardener's Magazine. In the 

 meantime the nearest approximation to such a list, will 

 be found in our Hortus Britannicus, Part IV. Classifi- 

 cation of Hardy Trees and Shrubs according to the time of 

 flowering, the height they grow to, and the colour of the flower. 



— COND. 



Art. XIV. On the Propagation and early Fruitfulness of the 

 Fig-tree in Pots. By Mr. John Borrowdale, Gardener 

 to Mrs. Dent, Wareop Hall, Westmoreland. 



Sir, 

 I herewith send you an account of some figs, which I 

 have lately propagated by cuttings. I got six well ripened 

 young shoots, having only about one fourth of an inch of 

 last year's wood, at the bottom of each cutting ; I cut them 

 across smoothly and at right angles, and planted them on the 

 15th of March last in the smallest pots I had, one in each 

 pot, filling the pots with very light compost, but rich in 

 manure. I then plunged them up to the rim in the pine-pit, 

 and they very soon began to grow vigorously. As soon as 

 they had made five and six leaves, I pinched out the leading 

 bud. On the 1st of January I shifted them into pots seven 

 inches deep by six inches wide. On the 1st of June I took 

 their balls away, as they readily parted, being composed of 

 such light compost; being repotted, they very soon made 

 four and five shoots each, and when these had got as many 

 joints and leaves, I again stopped them. Each plant has 

 now from fifteen to eighteen fruit, which are swelling remark- 

 ably well ; I have since removed them into pots ten inches 

 deep by nine inches wide, and I also give them plenty of liquid 

 manure. They are standing on a shelf in the pine-stove, 

 and I think they will ripen the present crop by the middle 

 of October, and they are putting out another set of branches, 

 so that I shall probably get a second crop by Christmas. 

 They are the large white Genoa fig. Should you think this 



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