FIGS AS HALF STANDARDS OR BUSHES. 97 



from Germany as Corylus arborescens ; this makes a 

 beautiful clear stem. 



The Algiers nut, Corylus algerensis, seems also to 

 be well adapted for a stock for standards, as it makes 

 shoots from six to seven feet in one season. 



FIGS AS HALF STANDARDS OE BUSHES. 



There is, perhaps, no fruit tree that disappoints 

 tlie amateur fruit grower so much as the fig. If 

 planted in the open borders of the garden, it soon 

 grows into an enormous fruitless bush or tree, and 

 if placed against a wall, unless a very large space 

 can be given to it, but little fruit must be expected. 



It may, however, be made eligible for small gar- 

 dens, where the climate is sufficiently warm to ripen 

 its fruit, such as the gardens near London, and those 

 in the eastern and southern counties. Fruitfulness 

 and moderate growth are brought on by the following 

 method. Trees should be procured of the Brown 

 Turkey or Lee's Perpetual, White Marseilles and 

 Early Yiolet Figs — these are the only kinds that bear 

 freely, and ripen their fruit well — such trees should be 

 low or half standards, or dwarfs with a clear stem 

 (not bushes branching from the ground). The former 

 should have a stem three feet high, and the latter one 

 from one foot to eighteen inches ; in each case the 

 tree should have a nice rounded head. 



Trees thus selected shotdd be planted in a sunny 

 situation, and require only the following simple mode 

 of treatment. They, we will assume, were planted in 

 March or April. 'They wiU make a tolerably vigorous 

 growth, and must be pruned by pinching off the top 



