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in or out of doors, they keep regularly to their seasonal times of flower¬ 
ing and perfecting their fruit. The fig, however, is a much more ver¬ 
satile being, especially in the hand of the forcing gardener. The same 
tree kept on a high temperature, may, by proper management, be made 
to yield two years’ crops, that is, four distinct crops in the course of 
twelve months. This feat has been done ; and by choosing the proper 
variety, placing the tree in the hot-house, and treating it with the most 
suitable aliment, the same result may be accomplished by any one 
having command of the necessary means. 
No other fruit tree can be better adapted to artificial discipline than 
the fig. It has no exposed flowers, whose delicate stamens and pistils 
might suffer from accidental visitations of either too hot or too cold 
air, or of too much or too little moisture; neither does the maturity of 
the fruit depend on the impregnation of the ovula3, so absolutely neces¬ 
sary to cause the swelling of other fruit; for whether impregnated or 
not, the receptacle continues to swell and become deliciously mature, 
whether the florets which line its interior cavity be perfect or imperfect. 
Indeed no perfect seeds are ever produced in this country, as we 
have neither the male tree nor the caprifying insect to effect impreg¬ 
nation. 
This it is which renders fig-forcing so successful, and which is 
entirely owing to this constitutional habit of the trees producing 
naturally two crops in the year. No other fruit tree is similarly con¬ 
stituted, though there are several forest trees, chiefly belonging to the 
coniferse, which perfect, or, at least, shed their seeds, in the second 
year. Senex. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
LETTER VI. 
I trust, my dear sir, that you have, from my former letters, ac¬ 
quired a pretty clear idea of that part of the pleasure ground already 
described ; and it is now my task to conduct you onwards to complete 
the circuit of this dressed scenery, through which I have engaged to 
be your guide. 
We have left the flower-garden and its business behind. We have 
also made an excursion along the shady avenue on the left, and returned 
out of that and gained the leading walk issuing from the north end of 
the flower-garden. Here we enter among lofty trees, springing out of 
