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FRUIT GARDEN. 



Marseilles, White Naples. The oldest variety 

 in cultivation. 



Nerii. — Colour pale greenish yellow: form 

 roundish obovate; size small; flesh similar in 

 colour to a pomegranate. Lindley observes, 

 " It is much the richest of its species, and there 

 is in its juice a slight degree of very delicate 

 acid, which renders it peculiarly agreeable to 

 most palates." From the experiments made by 

 Knight, it would appear not to be adapted 

 for forcing. He says, ** It offers fruit very 

 abundantly, but the whole falls off alike in the 

 stove and in the open air, and it succeeds only 

 in low temperature under glass. I have obtained 

 it in high perfection by bringing the fruit for- 

 ward till it was about one-third grown in the 

 stove, and then removing the pots in which 

 the plants grow to the conservatory." Expe- 

 rience does not confirm this, and we find it 

 forced with great success by many good gar- 

 deners. 



Pregussata. — Colour purplish brown ; form 

 roundish, somewhat flattened; size medium; 

 flesh deep red, with a luscious high flavour; 

 seeds unusually small. Introduced from the 

 Ionian Islands. An excellent forcing sort, and 

 tolerably hardy on the open wall. 



Turkey, brown.— Colour brown, covered with 

 rich blue bloom; form pear-shaped; size large; 

 flesh red; flavour exceedingly luscious. Syno- 

 nyms— Lee's perpetual, Walton, Italian, Jerusa- 

 lem, Murray, Brown Naples, Brown Italian, 

 Early, Eowick, Blue, Ashridge forcing, Blue 

 Ischia of some, Large blue, Purple, Blue Bur- 

 gundy, Small blue, Common purple. 



Diseases and insects. — From these the fig is 

 almost exempt, unless in forcing, when few 

 trees are more subject to the attacks of red- 

 spider and thrip. 



European names. — Fico, Italian — Figuier, 

 French— Viggenboom, Dutch — Figenbaum, Ger- 

 man — Higuera, Spanish. 



