: 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-. 
- tight. 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. ‘Tbe proprietor having attended 
particularly to the cultivation of the Grape for nearly twenty 
vears 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 worst 
seasons a tolerable crop may be calculated cn. 
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 first 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; rhe 
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- 
fore, given the following list of Grapes, with brief descrip- 
tions of their qualities, &c. 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 with 
elass. | 
1. Raisin précoce de la Madeleine.—T his Grape has small 
bunches, the berries are also small, and of a dark violet co- 
lour, of inferior flavour, and principally desirable for their 
early maturity ; ripens in August, ) ee Nee 
