FIGS AS HALF STANDAEDS OE BUSHES 12a 



diness of growth in the tree, and the roots become so 

 fibrous as to hold a large quantity of earth, which 

 should not be shaken from them when they go into their 

 annual winter abode. Fine trees thus treated are 

 grown in the garden of the Duke of Altenburg, in 

 Central Germany, their stems as stout as a man's leg,^ 

 and their heads full of fruit ; and fig-trees, taken up in 

 October, and placed in the orchard-house during the 

 winter— their roots in the soil — will give a crop of very 

 rich, well-ripened fruit : fresh soil must be given to 

 lifted trees. 



SEEDLING FEUITS 



Although raising fruits is, like art, very slow in results, 

 and the reward precarious, the pleasure of contributing 

 to the general good is worth waiting for. For many 

 years I have never ceased to sow seed of fruits of good 

 quality in the hope of prolonging or advancing the 

 season of sorts that are recognised by all to be the best 

 of their class. I cannot say that up to the present my 

 hopes have been fulfilled, but still there is always a 

 chance of success. 



The Transparent Gage, of whose origin I know 

 nothing except that it belongs, though widely dififering, 

 to the family of the gages, appears capable of repro- 

 ducing itself from seed ; of this sort I have obtained 

 the Early Transparent, the Late Transparent, and the 



