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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 



I. New Observations on some Artificial Agents which promote 

 the ripening of Figs. By Gr. GUspAiwtrNT. Extracted from 

 Vol. ii. of the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Physica. 

 and Mathematical Science. Naples, 1865. 



I have at various times published several memoirs on the Fig ana 

 Wild Fig, two individuals, male and female, of the same species. 

 My researches related principally to the structure and formation, 

 as well of the receptacle as of the different constituent parts ot 

 the flower and fruit, to the insect which lives and is propagated 

 in the ovary of the "Wild Fig, to the practice and effect of caprifi- 

 cation in this country, and to the origin of the germinal embryo, 

 &c. No other tree, perhaps, whether indigenous or exotic, offers, 

 at least as far as my experience extends, equal or greater diffi- 

 culties. The process of ripening also has its own peculiarities. 

 Two years ago, therefore, I read before the Pontanian Academy a 

 certain number of observations on these subjects, which were 

 printed*. 



In that memoir, as far as it related to the mere process of 

 ripening, I treated on the nature and variety of colouring which 

 the fruit acquired as it approached maturity, the organic modifi- 

 cations which take place in the different tissues, on the origin of 



* "On the Ripening and Quality of the Figs in the Neighbourhood of Naples " 

 (18G3), printed in the 9th volume of the Transactions of that Academy. 

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