174 THE OECHABD A2?D PEUIT GAEDEIT. 



Adam is a new variety from France. The fruit is the 

 largest of any, roundish, brown-purple, and very hand- 

 some. The tree has a fine, bold foliage, and is rather 

 apt to cast the fruit before it ripens. 



The Large White Genoa is a fine fig of excellent 

 flavour, white outside, red in the flesh, and ripe the end 

 of August, but it is a poor bearer. 



The Malta, or Small Brown, is small, pale brown 

 throughout when fully ripe, compressed at the stalk, 

 and becoming ripe by the end of August. It is very 

 vSweet and nice in flavour, and if it remain on the tree 

 until it shrivels, it is quite like a sweetmeat. 



Pregussata is small, round, compressed at both ends, 

 purplish-brown, with pale spots on the sunny side, deep 

 red inside, and very rich and luscious. It is an excellent 

 fig, in use from August to October, and very good for 

 forcing. 



The White or Green Ischia is a very pretty-looking 

 fig, the white skin being so transparent as to show the 

 purple flesh through it, when fully ripe. It ripens the 

 end of August, and !is rich and delicious in flavour. 

 The tree has a small habit of grow^th, and is a great 

 bearer. It is well adapted to pot-culture, and forcing. 



The Black and Brown Ischia^ and Brown Turkey, are 

 the best to grow as standards, and they and most of 

 the other kinds named above do well against a wall. 

 They, the White Ischia, Angelique, Early Violet, Mar- 

 seilles, and Pregussata, are good for pot-culture and for 

 forcing. Figs should be eaten almost as soon as 

 they are gathered. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



VINES. 



It~ would be out of place in a little work especially 

 devoted to the fruit garden, to enter elaborately into the 

 cultivation of the grape-vine in green-hoaises and hot- 



