Account of some Standard Fig Trees. 



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and Plum trees. The climate of the village must be particu- 

 larly mild, for I observed in several instances Myrtles growing 

 against the walls of houses, and the different tender evergreens 

 in the gardens were very vigorous and healthy. The soil 

 where the Fig trees grow is a rich garden mould about four- 

 teen inches deep, lying over a hard binding gravel, into which 

 the roots do not penetrate far. 



The number of the Fig trees is fourteen ; they occupy the 

 principal part of the garden, which is very small, and are in 

 perfect health ; their average height is about ten feet, and if 

 any of the larger ones were detached, they would cover a 

 space of twelve feet in diameter ; their stems are not large, 

 the plants being rather bushes than trees, for the branches 

 spread in all directions from the root ; these are propped up 

 by stakes, but many of them are suffered to hang near the 

 ground. 



Mr. Kennard, who is a very intelligent man, gave the 

 following account of the trees, and his management of them. 

 They are about forty years old now, for they were twelve 

 years old when he purchased the property, nearly thirty years 

 ago ; he calls them the brown Turkey Fig,* but considers 

 three of the trees (which he believes to be of the same kind as 

 grow in the Fig garden at Tarring) as inferior to the others. 

 Since he has had the garden the trees have never failed to 

 produce what may be called a crop, though it has varied in 

 quantity in different years. The Figs usually begin to ripen 



* They are the Brown Naples, or Italian Fig, figured in Bkookshaw's Pomona 

 Britannica, folio edition, plate 74. 



