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treated of, not very many varieties are necessary. 

 Taking into consideration the fruitfulness and good 

 qualities of figs in cultivation, I do not know of any 

 so thorougWy satisfactory as the old and well-known 

 Brown Turkey, White Marseilles (Eaby Castle), Grosse 

 Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie. These four are splendid 

 varieties for both pot-culture and fruiting in borders. 

 Some smaller varieties are extremely fruitful, such as 

 Black Province, CEil de Perdrix, White Ischia, and 

 others ; but they are small, and not so desirable as those 

 first named. Mr Barron, Garden Superintendent at the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Gardens, who has had great oppor- 

 tunities of forming an opinon, and who has excelled in 

 the pot-culture of the fig, in writing regarding keeping up 

 a rich and varied supply from a house devoted to the 

 cultivation of the fig in pots, and where the collection 

 is limited to say fifty plants, gives the following as 

 his selection for keeping up a continuous supply of 

 ripe fruit from June to Christmas. The varieties he puts 

 into groups thus, showing how they will give a supply 

 of fruit in each month : " July — White Marseilles, 

 De la Madeleine, Gros Monstrueuse de Lipardi, Brown 

 Turkey. August — White Marseilles, Lee's Perpetual 

 (Brown Turkey), De Lipardi. September — White Is- 

 chia, Grosse Violette de Bourdeaux, Black Provence, 

 Grosse Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie, Col de Signora Blanca, 

 De I'Archipel, and the second crop of White Marseilles 

 and Lee's Perpetual. October — White Ischia, Black 

 Province, Grosse Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie, Col de 

 Signora Blanca, and Col de Signora JSTera. November 

 — ^White Ischia, Grosse Verte, Lee's Perpetual, D'Agen. 

 December — White Ischia, D'Agen, the latest of aU." 

 Where, however, space is limited so that such a col- 



