The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 208
ht, 23 ft.; horizontal extent, 63 ft.; circum-ference of trunk, 3 ft.: age twenty years. Perhaps it is more remarkable forhaving attained such a size in so comparatively short a period, than for itsactual dimensions. Rather a curious circumstance connected with it, is thefact of a dog, which was… … Domestic Noticed: — England. 187 gathering the fruit), and gathered the figs from the tree himself. The treestands in the stable-yard of my friend Mrs. Janvrin, of St. Aubyns, and isgenerally considered to be the largest in Jersey. I certainly saw none ap-proaching it in size.— W. Christy, jun.…
