■506 Account of some Standard Fig Trees. 



in the latter end of August, or early in September, and con- 

 tinue to afford fruit during part of October ; this year, from 

 the lateness of the season, the first produce will be three 

 weeks later than usual. The crop is from the spring-formed 

 Figs, sometimes a few of the autumnal fruits which are not 

 destroyed by the winter ripen a short time before the others, 

 these are smaller in size, but much richer. 



When the leaves have fallen from the trees he clears the 

 ground under them from whatever rubbish or weeds may 

 have collected there during the summer, and covers the 

 surface with dung, which he digs in amongst the roots in 

 the spring. The annual shoots, which are from six to 

 twelve inches in length, are often killed back in part by 

 the winter frosts. He removes the dead wood, but other- 

 wise prunes little, for he thinks any cutting is injurious to 

 the tree. 



Tarring, the place above mentioned, is a small village 

 about two miles to the north-west of Worthing. In a garden 

 there, now the property of Mr. Thomas Lowd, a great 

 number of Fig trees were planted about thirty-five years 

 ago. They are principally of one sort, the long Blue Fig, 

 which is generally known under the name of the Blue Bur- 

 gundy Fig, though there are a few of the White Marseilles 

 amongst them. These trees are generally about ten feet 

 high, and from fifteen to twenty feet in diameter ; several 

 of them, like those at Sompting, are rather bushes than 

 trees, as they send up many strong shoots from the root. 

 The garden, is now much crowded as well from the great 

 increase in the size of the Fig trees, as from other fruit- 



