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XIV. On the Effects produced by Ringing upon Fig Trees, 

 with Observations on their Cultivation and Propagation. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Sir Charles Miles 

 Lambert Monck, Bart. F. H. S. 



Read December 4, 1821. 



Dear Sir, 



Jn a Letter,* which I wrote to you last year, about Fig trees, 

 I reported the effect produced on one by Ringing, which, if 

 I recollect right, were described to be as follows : that the 

 stem of the tree below the ring ceased to swell ; but above 

 it, encreased certainly as fast, apparently faster, than before ; 

 that the branches which subsequently sprouted forth were 

 shorter jointed ; that the trees put forth Figs in spring 

 and at midsummer in such abundance as to bear eight or 

 ten on some branches of as many inches in length ; and, that 

 though the Figs grew fast, and appeared large and healthy, 

 the tree (which was one of those which I have before de- 

 scribed as dropping their fruits before they were mature) 

 shed them all, as it had been used to do before it was ringed, 

 and ripened none. 



I had hoped two things from the ringing ; first, a more 

 abundant production of fruit; secondly, the sustenance of 



* The Letter alluded to, is that which is printed at page 163, of this Volume, 

 but that part of it which contained the observation on ringing was omitted in the 

 printing, because the substance of the passage was repeated and extended in the 

 present Letter. Sec. 



