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New Principles of Gardening. 
Yellow, Grey, Green, Brown, Purple, or Violet colour’d, con- 
fifting of fixteen different Kinds. As, firft, Of White Figs, 
which are three in Number, v#z. the Flower of Figs, the firft 
ripe, called by the /’ rench Figue Fleru, having a fhort Stalk 
fomething flat, The fecond is of the fame Name with a long 
Stalk; and the third, called the {mall Mar/eslles Fig, of a flat 
Make, and very fruitful Kind. 
All thefe three Sorts bear twice a Year, #2. Spring and Au- 
tumn; and their Fruit are richly fugar’d, have but few Seeds, 
and are melting. 
Il. The Black Fig, or Madera Fig, called by the French Le 
Figue de Madere, is a black large zg, of a long Make, a very 
great Bearer, and requires a very warm Expofition to ripen its 
Fruit, as wellas a very high Wall to extend it felf. 
Il. The Yellow Fig, called by the French Incarnadine, or 
Incarnation, is a very large Fig, like unto the White Flower of 
Figs : °Tisa great Grower, bears twicea Year, Spring and Au- 
tumn ; it feldom produces much Fruit in the Spring, but gene- 
rally in September great Quantities : It is of a Reddifh Colour with- 
in Side, and a very good Fruit. 
- Befides this Yellow Fig, there is another calledthe Golden Fig, 
and by the French Figue Dorée: *'Visa large flat Fruit, its Skin 
breaks in Ripening, and produces a much better Crop in the 
Autumn than in Summer. 
IV. The Grey Fig, called by the rench la Figue de Grife, 
a large Fig of a long Make, greyifh on one Side, and a little 
blewith on the other, an indifferent good Bearer, and a tolera- 
ble good Fruit. 
V. The Green Fig, called in French Figue Verte, and by fome 
La Verdalle, or Figue d’ Efpagne, Spanifb Fig, by the Italians 
Verdone, is a plump round Fruit, always green without, and 
when ripe, very red within Side. : 
’Tis a very hardy Tree, and produces a better and larger Crop 
in September and Oéfober, than in Summer, and is a very good 
ruit. Sa 
VI. Brown-Purple Figs; of which there are two Sorts, viz. 
the Genoa Fig, called by the French Figue de Gennes, or la 
Figue Fievre, the Treavcr Fig. It is an excellent fine flavour- 
ed /7zg, and produces Fruit larger than any other: Its SAape is 
long, 
