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author has received nine shillings per dozen for his 

 crop from under glass, and almost as much for his 

 fruit from the open wall, from the Margate 

 fruiterers. 



Some of the properties of this variety have been, 

 by a late writer, transferred to the Brunswick fig ; 

 properties which the latter does not deserve. The 

 mistake is alluded to here, to guard young gardeners 

 or purchasers from disappointment. 



Miller, in the fourth edition of his Dictionary, 

 just mentions the long purple fig;" though Whit- 

 mill (an eminent gardener of his day, and to whom 

 Miller owed much for his early knowledge of gar- 

 dening), in his list or book, published in 17*26, calls 

 it " Whitmiirs Early Purple but which was nei- 

 ther more nor less than the ''long purple" of Mil- 

 ler. This little bit of vanity in Whitmill — to gain a 

 sale for his trees, or a little celebrity to his name- 

 has been too much practised by many who were by 

 nature his juniors, and professionally by far his in- 

 feriors. 



The blue, or long purple fig, is valuable on another 

 account ; it bears carriage well, being firm in tex- 

 ture, and not apt to crack. As the leaves are large, 

 and not much indented, it should be laid in, in pretty 

 open order, to admit sun and air. The laterals 

 should always be carefully preserved, as they art* 

 the principal bearers. 



8. Black Genoa Fig. — Ripens about the end of 

 August. It was introduced by Miller ; and, though 

 a fine rich fruit, does not seem to have been much 



