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FIGS. 



In the middle and northern states, where the Fig Trees 

 are killed nearly to the ground by the severity of the winters, 

 two crops of fruit may be obtained each season, by planting 

 the early kinds in a warm or sheltered situation, if pains are 

 taken in autumn to bend the trees down, and cover them 

 with earth, sloping the embankment so as to cast off the rain ; 

 but, early in April, they should be uncovered and set up- 

 right. By this treatment they will produce one crop of fruit 

 early in the summer, and another in September or October. 



GRAPES. 



Of all the fruits cultivated in the United States, there is 

 none more generally esteemed than the Grape ; yet, in the 

 middle and northern states, this fruit is seldom met with in 

 perfection but in cities. The proprietor having attended 

 particularly to the cultivation of the Grape for nearly twenty 

 years past, can confidently assure those who wish to have this 

 fruit in perfection, that they may depend on their vines pro- 

 ducing well if they will attend to the following directions; for 

 although a season may sometimes occur when the cold and 

 wet will retard the ripening of the fruit, yet even in the wor&t 

 seasons a tolerable crop may be calculated on. 



There are two causes why the cultivation of the vine has 

 not been successful in the country^ attention to which is in- 

 dispensably necessary ; the Jir&t is the proper selection of 

 those kinds which are suitable to the climate, and which 

 come to perfection by the middle or end of September; the 

 second is the want of attention to the culture requisite for 

 ripening the wood, which in cities is effected by the dry warm 

 air with little or no care, but in the country, art and attention 

 are required to produce the desired effect. I have, there- 

 fare, given the following list of Grapes, with brief descrip- 

 tions of their qualities, Sec. and by reference to page 31, it 

 will be found which are suitable for the country^ and which 

 will only succeed in the city^ or in Grape-houses roofed witU 

 glass. 



1. Raisin firecoce de la Madeleine, — This Grape has small 

 bunches, the berries are also small, and of a dark violet co- 

 lour, of inferior flavour, and principally desirable for theii: 

 early maturity ; ripens in August. 



