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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Jult, 
Deutsche Pomologie is a late sort, and 
ripened here from the beginning to the middle 
of October ; it is one of the most commend¬ 
able as regards the quality of the fruit, as well 
as for its unsurpassed fertility. One tree, 
which was planted in the spring of 1877 as a 
one-year old palmette, has borne from the first 
year, and the fruits, which ripened well, were 
rather large, roundish, coloured purplish-red 
on the sunny side, and of excellent flavour. 
As it is rather late in ripening, I should advise 
to plant this sort in the warmest position. 
“ As regards the most suitable form for the 
Peach-tree, and that best adapted for its 
winter protection, which is necessary in this 
climate, I prefer the palmette to any other. 
.... In winter .... the stems and the 
lower strong boughs are surrounded with 
juniper branches, or in want of these with fine 
thorns of wild roses, in order to protect the 
bark against damage by mice.” —R. Muller, 
Praust, near Danzig. 
THE FIG-TREE. 
OOKS on Fruit-trees show us how to get 
two crops of Figs a year in a good 
season ; and tell us that in an ordinary 
season there should be no difficulty in 
getting one crop in the year. On comparing 
notes on this subject with my namesake of fruit 
notoriety,* he states that he has gathered two 
dozen good Figs from a plant in a 24-sized 
pot. The idea of its being in a pot, tells that 
it has been well wintered in some shed or 
under glass. Before the days of cheap glass 
we had recourse to dry bracken and straw to 
protect our Figs from frost and wet; and after 
all nothing was more uncertain than a crop 
of Figs. At Lord Boston’s garden on the 
banks of the Thames, I saw in an old walled 
garden a standard Fig-tree in full bearing, and 
examples of Figs in pots are to be seen every¬ 
where in true orchard-house fashion ; but this 
is not all, for when the greatest bearers have 
done their best, and a good crop has been got 
in, it will have taken a hot summer and a slice 
of autumn into the bargain to get good dessert 
fruit from any Figs out of doors. Therefore 
we may drop the fern and straw and take to 
the glass-house for protection for Fig-trees. 
There is no need to confine the Fig-trees to 
pots, although pots of large size may be used. 
I need scarcely remark that the pots will 
confine the plants to the form of low bushes ; 
* “ Forsyth oa Fruit Trees.” 
and whoever has been able to exhibit Vines in 
pots will have no difficulty to manage Figs. 
Forsyth gives details as to how the Fig may 
be pruned by cutting to the quick misplaced 
shoots, and also those where the milk exuded 
showing wounds, all of which should be plais- 
tered or cauterised, either with dry powder or 
by the use of a hot iron. 
Figs cannot usually ripen in our climate, 
and therefore they are seldom seen in market, 
and are scarcely known in the trade. The 
small Figs, little larger than buttons on a 
livery coat, want only winter protection, and a 
warm summer, to bring them to maturity ; 
but the larger kinds require exotic treatment 
to grow them well. 
The Fig has been in England for three or 
four hundred years, and has got to be well 
known; and wherever the Jew or the Gentile 
have set foot the Fig-tree will be found. Not 
only are Figs used as food, but as salve or 
medicine, for in Holy Writ we read of the 
bunch of Figs being laid upon a sore, and it 
healed. 
The Fig-tree is easily propagated, and never 
fails to push out its green fruit ; therefore it is 
one of the best plants for beginners to practise 
on. No one should attempt to grow Figs who 
has not the leisure and the skill to do them 
justice, for root and branch should be indoors 
in hard weather ; and where the owner is 
either unable or unwilling to grapple with the 
cost and care of orchard-house Figs, he has no 
business to trifle with the culture of this fine 
old plant. The shade and shelter of the 
rambling Vine, and stiff shoots of the Fig-tree, 
are idioms indicative of perfect happiness, 
represented by sitting under one’s own Vine 
and Fig-tree. —Alex. Forsyth, Salford. 
CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS. 
TfTHIS plant is admirably suited for pot 
1 || 1 culture, and is deserving of more 
attention than is commonly bestowed 
upon it. Although hardy enough to 
withstand the frost of ordinary winters, and to 
flower freely in the open border, it is never¬ 
theless worthy of better treatment, and is 
certain to fully repay any extra attention 
which may be bestowed upon it by cultivators, 
by yielding freely its beautiful spire-like 
masses, 5 or 6 feet in height, of blue and 
white flowers, which continue for a consider¬ 
able length of time in good condition. 
