28 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 18

In the Garden

Figs are always problematical in a garden, unless one goes to the considerable trouble of building a brick container round their roots on planting. Otherwise, the fig will only run to leaf, flapping in the wind like elephants' ears. I have tried what on the whole has been a successful compromise, planting in large tubs, which not only look decorative but allow thus far but no farther in root-range. Each tub- fig-tree should provide a dozen or so large figs in September, but they must be kept watered in a dry spell. It is a good idea to add a few stones