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LXIV. On the Management of the Fig Tree in the open Air. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By the Rev. George 



S WAYNE, A. M. 



Read September 19th, 1820. 



Sir, 



Among the many interesting Papers contained in the So- 

 ciety's Transactions, I find no fewer than five* (including 

 the selectionf in the Appendix to the first volume), on the 

 improved management of the Fig tree. From the general 

 contents of these Papers, but particularly from that of the 

 Right Hon. William Wjckham, I infer that the principal 

 defect requiring a remedy, is a deficiency of fruitlings (or 

 bloom, as it may, with no great impropriety, be termed, 

 since we see no other), in the early spring, on the whole of 

 the last year's shoots, excepting on the few joints at their 

 extremities ; on which shoots it is well known that the Fig 

 tree in this county, in the open air, and unassisted with 

 artificial heat, produces all its mature fruit of the succeeding 

 season ; and from hence I am led to conclude that the re- 

 medy which I have for a long time been in the habit of using, 

 and which I consider as a specific, is not in general appli- 

 cation. 



I have in the London Quarterly Journal of Science and 

 the Arts% briefly stated the plan I pursue, which I will now 



* See vol. i. page 252. Vol. ii. page 228. Vol. iii. page 307, and page 461. 

 f See vol. i. Appendix, page 6. + Vol. vii. page 169. 



