In season: September and October.

The Fig will grow and bear well in any soil it likes. It thrives and bears well in London and the neighbourhood. The fruit is delicious and wholesome. The preserved figs eaten in England are imported from Smyrna and the Levant. The fig is exceedingly nutritious; it contains nearly as much gluten as wheaten bread, and is twenty-seven per cent, richer in starch and sugar. Any poor man who can grow a fig-tree near his home will find its fruit help to nourish and sustain his children; yet, strangely enough, there are places in rural England where the poor will not eat figs, but give them to their swine as food.