48
THE BRUNSWICK FIG.
Brunswick. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 49.
Madonna. Miller’s Diet. ed. 8, no. 9. Forsyth’s Treatise,
ed. 5. no. 10.
Hanover o f some Gardens.
This is one of the most useful of the hardy Figs.
In a south-eastern corner, trained against a wall,
it ripens by the middle of August, in even unfavourable
seasons. In an ordinary summer, in the
neighbourhood of London, it begins to mature by
the beginning of that month. Notwithstanding
these qualities, it is not much recommended in
works upon gardening, in which it is frequently
described as a coarse variety. If by this term is
meant that it is unusually large, the epithet coarse
is well applied, as it is, perhaps, the largest Purple
Fig we h av e ; but if the expression is intended to
refer to its quality, nothing can be more unjust, its
flavour being rich and excellent in the extreme.
Upon the whole, this may be safely taken as the
most useful variety th a t can be selected for a small
garden.
The name of Brunswick is retained in preference
to th a t of Madonna, because it is now the better
known of the two.
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