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resorted to, but could never observe any beneficial effects arising from 
it, in practice, as many of the sorts>will drop their fruit when exci¬ 
ted at an early period, treat them as you will. As soon as the vio¬ 
lent heating of the bed has subsided, the pots should be plunged to 
the rims, and regularly supplied with water at the roots, as well as 
frequently syringed over-head. The temperature of the house may 
be commenced at fifty degrees, and gradually increased to seventy- 
five degrees, by the time the fruit is swelling off, which, if excited 
early in January, will be beginning to swell and ripen early in 
April, when a succession may be continued to the latter end of the 
season, from the same plants, by keeping them regularly supplied 
with heat and moisture. 
Many of the sorts will succeed well, if potted in large pots, and 
kept at the temperature of the pine stove, and placed in pans of wa¬ 
ter, where they will have a regular supply of moisture at their roots. 
There is a Fig-tree in the Woburn Garden, that was planted out in 
a corner of the pine-house, about three years ago, which has annu¬ 
ally produced, and brought to perfection, nine successive crops, and 
is at this time covered with an abundant shew of healthy Figs. The 
soil that they appear to grow and flourish in best, is a mixture of 
sandy loam and leaf-mould, intermixed with one-fourth of good rot¬ 
ten dung. 
