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FIGS. 



In the middle and northern States, where the Pig 

 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 embank- 

 ment so as to cast off the rain ; but early in April they 

 should be uncovered and set upright. 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 sel- 

 dom met with in perfection except in cities. The pro- 

 prietor having attended particularly to the cultivation 

 of the Grape for nearly twenty years past, can confi- 

 dently assure those who wish to have this fruit in per- 

 fection, that they may depend on their vines producing 

 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 on. 



There are two causes why the cultivation ot the vine 

 has not been successful in the country, attention to which 

 is indispensably necessary; the first h the proper selec- 

 tion of those kinds which are suitable to the climate, and 

 which come to perfection by the middle or end of Sep- 

 tember ; the second is the want of attention to the cul- 

 ture 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 pro- 

 duce the desired effect. I have, therefore, given the 

 list of Grapes under two distinct heads, with brief de^ 

 scriptions of their qualities, &c. \ first, those which, on 



