In order to keep up a constant succession of ripe Figs for a good many months of the year, as treated of in former papers, not very many varieties are necessary. Taking into consideration the fruitfulness and good qualities of Figs in cultivation, I do not know of any so thoroughly satisfactory as the old and well-known Brown Turkey, White Marseilles (Raby Castle), Grosse Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie. These four are splendid varieties for both pot-culture and fruiting in borders. Some smaller varieties are extremely fruitful, such as Black Provence, CEil de Perdrix, White Ischia, and others; but they are small, and not so desirable as those first named. Mr Barron, Garden Superintendent at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, who has had great opportunities of forming an opinion, and who has excelled in the pot-culture of the Fig, in writ-ng regarding keeping up a rich and varied supply from a house devoted to the cultivation of the Fig in pots, and where the collection is limited to say fifty plants, gives the following as his selection for keeping up a continuous supply of ripe fruit from June to Christmas. The varieties he puts into groups thus, showing how they will give a supply of fruit in each month. "July - White Marseilles, De la Madeleine, Gros Monstrueuse de Lipardi, Brown Turkey. August - White Marseilles, Lee's Perpetual (Brown Turkey), De Lipardi.

September - White Ischia, Grosse Yiolette de Bourdeaux, Black Provence, Grosse Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie, Col de Signora Blanca, De l'Archipel, and the second crop of White Marseilles and Lee's Perpetual. October - White Ischia, Black Provence, Grosse Verte, Bourjassotte Grisie, Col de Signora Blanca, and Col de Signora Nera. November - White Ischia, Grosse Verte, Lee's Perpetual, D'Agen. December - White Ischia, D'Agen, the latest of all".

Where, however, space is limited so that such a collection is impracticable, I recommend as the most constantly prolific and otherwise excellent, the varieties I first named. They are medium-sized and of excellent flavour. D. T.