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fig were not good for the grapes. In the vinery I found Brown 

 Turkey, or Lee's Perpetual, excellent; White Ischia, though small, 

 delicious; White Marseilles, most luscious; Early Violet, small but 

 good. Upon the whole, I recommend for orchard-house cultivation 

 Lee's Perpetual : this is now grown with me in the orchard-house, and 

 yields fine crops of its excellent fruit. The tree is trained under 

 the glass, and gives very little trouble ; the only thing is to afford it 

 plenty of lightl Up to this time I have never had a fig from an 

 outdoor tree, although they grow in great abundance on standards 

 at Worthing irt Sussex. The best outdoor fig is the Black Brunswick, 

 although* it is reputed not to force well, and I have planted a small 

 tree of this in a dry and warm part of the garden, in the hope 

 that it will gradually grow and bear fruit, as the old standard trees 

 do at Worthing. The propagation of the fig is very simple ; every 

 little sucker, every cutting will grow, and it may be freely multiplied 

 by the process of circumvallation. 



THE MULBERRY. 



" Ille salubres 

 /Estates peraget, qui nigris prandia moris 

 Finiet, ante gravem qua; legerit arbore solem." 



Horace, Satira iv. lib. ii. 



Every garden used to have its Mulberry-tree {Morus nigra) : no one, 

 however, now plants a mulberry-tree. If our forefathers had not done 

 more for us than we are doing for our posterity, we should have been 

 utterly deprived of this delicious fruit. I have a mulberry-tree in my 

 orchard-house, where the fruit really ripens. Mr. Rivers tells 

 me that his orchard-house mulberries (fig. 379) are large ; 

 mine, however, have been small, but so sweet and delicious 

 as to be like another kind of fruit. I recommend everyone 



Fig. 37g.-Mul- 



who has an orchard-house to have a pot mu\heny-tree:^'"y-i^^'^- 

 they will be no less astonished than gratified by the excellent quality 

 of the fruit, 



