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XXXII. Upon the Culture of the Fig Tree, in the Stove. By 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. §c. President. 



Read July 18, 1820. 



In a communication respecting the effects of very high 

 temperature upon certain species of plants, which was 

 addressed by me to the Horticultural Society in the last 

 autumn,* I stated that Fig trees of one variety had afforded 

 four successive crops in the same season. The fourth crop, 

 at that period, was only beginning to ripen, and I thought 

 the fruit somewhat inferior in quality to that which had 

 ripened early in the season ; but the subsequent portion 

 of it proved most excellent ; and some Figs which were 

 gathered upon Christmas day, were thought by myself, 

 and a friend who was with me, much the best we had 

 ever tasted. The same plants have since ripened four 

 more crops, being eight within twelve months; and upon 

 a ringed branch of one year old, and about an inch in 

 diameter, a ninth crop, consisting of sixty Figs, will ripen 

 within the next month. I possess only two plants, each 

 growing in a pot, which contains something less than four- 

 teen square inches of mould, and occupying together a 

 space equal to about sixty-four square teet of the back 

 wall of my Pine stove ; from which space the number of 

 Figs that have been gathered within twelve months, has 



• See Horticultural Transactions, volume iii. page 461. 



