Show outdoor tig rigs in n maine for about four years mr E K whitney whose place is about a mile from harrison village has successfully raised a crop of fig figs a the figs figa are when fully ripe as large as medium sized pears and mellow and delicious not to be told in appearance and flavor from the southern grown and the trees bear abundantly from six to eight on ft a branch when mr whitney first began their culture he would in the fall by advice of southern growers bury the tree in position by cutting the roots each side and bending the tree into a trench prepared forit for it by experiment later he learned that the better method was to dig up the tree and transplant it to the cellar it la Is quite hardy and will endure considerable cold and is little affected by transplanting in the spring it is easily set out Z again a ard the fruit ripens quite early in tue the fall A cutting from the tree takes root readily and this offshoot comes in bearing during the second year lewiston journal |