. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. MELON. 763. puted but that considerable change happens to the contexture of fruits so pricked, just the same as to parts of animals pierced with any sharp ; Monck split a fig from the eye to the stalk, and found it ripen six weeks
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. MELON. 763. puted but that considerable change happens to the contexture of fruits so pricked, just the same as to parts of animals pierced with any sharp ; Monck split a fig from the eye to the stalk, and found it ripen six weeks before others that were untouched. (Hort. Trans, v. 172.) 4866. The process of caprification of figs is performed in the Levant to hasten the maturity of the autumnal crop, and consists in placing on the fig-trees what are called figues-fleurs, or spring figs, in which a certain insect of the gnat species (, L.) has deposited its eggs. From these eggs, in the spring figs, proceed a multitude of gnats, which, in their turn, deposit their eggs in the autumn figs, or rather in their flowers, effecting in their passage the fecundation of these flowers, and, by consequence, hastening the maturity of the fruit. The most enlightened French naturalists are of opinion that this is a very unneces- sary part of the culture of the fig. Olivier, member of the Institute, and author of a Journey through the Ottoman Empire, considers it as "a tribute which man pays to ignorance and ; "In many countries of the Levant," he says, " it is not performed, nor is it done in France, Italy, or Spain ; and it is now neglected in some of the isles of the Archipelago, where was it practised ; Bosc says, ** the larva of the Cynips, in eating the interior of the figs, can be no otherwise useful than the larva of the Pyrale pommonelle, Hubner, (Phalcena, Linn.) or apple-worm, can be in hastening the maturity of the apple: and who would take it upon him
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