234 On obtaining very early Crops of the Grape and Fig, 



So small a quantity of the fruit, which is formed in the pre- 

 ceding autumn, of either of those varieties of the Fig, sets in 

 any climate, that it will rarely be found to deserve much at- 

 tention ; and I usually prune off as much of the annual wood 

 as is necessary to reduce the trees to such forms and sizes as 

 I think most convenient, without paying any regard to their 

 blossom buds. It appears probable that many of those vari- 

 eties of the Fig, which will not at all bear the high tempera- 

 ture of a stove, in summer, may succeed well in winter, and 

 early spring ; but I have not yet had sufficient experience to 

 enable me to decide. 



