134 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



Figs proper for a fmall Garden. 



The Large White Genoa ; Early White ; Murrey Fig ; 

 Small Brown Ifchia, and the Black Ifchia. 



In a good feafon, the Brown or Chefnut-coloured Ifchia, 

 the Black Genoa, the Small White Early, the Murrey or 

 Brown Naples, and the Common Blue, or Purple Fig, will 

 ripen on ftandards. 



Figs are raifed from fuckers, layers, or cuttings, and will 

 thrive in almoft any foil, but do not like a wet bottom ; they 

 generally produce more fruit on a ftrong loamy foil than on 

 a dry one. Layers, or cuttings, are preferable to fuckers. 



Obfervations, SCc. on Pruning Figs, 



They mould never be pruned in Autumn or during the 

 Winter : the belt time is at the latter end of April or be- 

 ginning of May ; by that time you will fee what moots have 

 been killed by the froft in Winter. The end of thofe 

 branches more particularly will be hurt where the wood has 

 not ripened well in Autumn : they mould be cut into the 

 found wood, and as near to an eye as pofTible. When the 

 branches have been fu fife red to run up leaving the bottom 

 quite naked, you fhould cut out every other branch as near 

 to the ground as you can, which will furnifh the wall with 

 fine young wood ; obferving to flop the ends of the fhoots in 

 the beginning of June ; this will caufe them to throw out 



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