102 Upon the Culture of the Fig Tree, in the Stove. 



several experiments to obtain fruit in the following spring 

 from other parts of such branches, which were not success- 

 ful : but I ultimately found that bending these branches, as 

 far as could be done without danger of breaking them, ren- 

 dered them extremely fruitful; and in the present spring 

 thirteen Figs ripened perfectly upon a branch of this kind, 

 within the space of ten inches. In training, the ends of all 

 the shoots have been made, as far as practicable, to point 

 downwards. 



When I made my former communication upon this 

 subject, I supposed that the variety which had succeeded 

 so well in my hol-house, was the large White Fig ; the 

 cuttings, from which I raised my plants, having been sent 

 to me as such ; and that its size had been somewhat dimi- 

 nished by the confinement of the roots to pots, and the 

 exuberant produce of fruit. I have, however, recently seen 

 a private letter of the late Mr. Speechley's (the well- 

 known author of Treatises on the Culture of the Pine- 

 Apple and Vine), in which he speaks of a White Fig, that 

 he had found to succeed perfectly in high temperature, but 

 the name of which he does not appear to have known ; and I 

 believe that which I am cultivating to be the one he has de- 

 scribed. The form of the fruit, in its most perfect state, is an 

 oblate spheroid of nearly two inches in width ; but its length 

 often exceeds its breadth, and it then tapers to the point 

 next the stalk. 



