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XIII. Some Observations on the Fruit of Fig trees. In a 

 Letter to the Secretary. By Sir Charles Miles Lam- 

 bert Monck, Bart. F. H. S. 



Read February 6, 1821. 



Dear Sir, 



I have delayed writing to you till the Fig-trees in my 

 glass-house should have done all which they could in this 

 season. This they have now done, and though my obser- 

 vation of them has not enabled me to ascertain all which I 

 hoped, yet I have learned some particulars, which I will 

 communicate. 



I have four kinds of Fig-tree in my garden, which were 

 obtained from a neighbouring nurseryman, about twenty 

 years ago. I do not recollect all their names, but amongst 

 them was a Green Ischia, and one, which I could always 

 distinguish, was the White Marseilles. These four trees 

 were planted against a flued wall, of south aspect, care- 

 fully covered from frost in winter, and trained to the wall in 

 summer. They all, except the White Marseilles, have put 

 out every year, since the fourth or fifth after they were 

 planted, plentiful crops of spring Figs, but never ripened 

 any. Their fruit has always turned yellow at the end of 

 June, and dropped early in July. The W T hite Marseilles 

 kind used to put out no spring Figs, but plenty from its 

 spring shoots in summer. These were immature at the fall 



