a method used in the Levant for ripening the fruit of the domestic fig-tree, by means of insects bred in that of the wild fig-tree. The most ample and satisfactory accounts of this curious operation in gardening are those of Tournefort and Pon- tedra; the former, in his Voyage to the Levant, and in a Memoir delivered to the Academy of Sciences at Paris in 1705; the latter, in his Anthologia.