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LXXX. Account of some Standard Fig Trees in a Garden at 

 Sompting, near Worthing, in Sussex. By Joseph Sabine, 

 E,sq. F. R. S. $c. Secretary. 



Read October 2, 1821. 



Th e south-western part of the county of Sussex is famed 

 for the production of good Figs on standard trees. In 

 a recent visit to that county, a garden was mentioned to 

 me as having been long remarkable for its Fig trees ; I 

 therefore visited it, and am enabled to lay the follow- 

 ing particulars respecting it before the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



The garden in question is attached to a small cottage in 

 the village of Sompting, and is the property of Mr. James 

 Kennaed, a farrier, who lives in the cottage, and manages 

 the garden himself. Sompting is nearly three miles from 

 Worthing, and is situated on the high road leading from 

 Brighton to Arundel, from both which places it is ten miles 

 distant. The garden is contiguous to the north side of the 

 road, from wjiich the Fig trees may be seen growing above 

 the stone wall which separates them from the road. The situ- 

 ation is immediately on the southern foot of the South-down 

 hills, and not quite two miles in a direct line north from the 

 sea. The garden has a very gentle slope to the south, and is 

 immediately protected on the north by a thick grove of Apple 



