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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13857, 21 March 1907, Page 9

— Tarring, near Worthing, where tlio figs come from, lias moro than one tradition connected with its principal industry. One of those declares that Thomas a'Beckef, who used to visit the Archbishop of Canieiliurv at his palace in-the village, planted with his own hand the most venerable of the fig trees still extant. Arboriculturists are doubtful as to the possibility 0 f a lis tree reaching the groat a<;e of nearly SCO years, but they are. so they say, plenty of fig trees at Tarring that have flourished there for over a century and a-lialf. And that seems a respectable age for trees which 6till bear fruit,