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Bulletin 77 



Throughout the Sulphur Spring Valley the Mission and White 

 Adriatic are the leading varieties. Old trees bear two crops each 

 year, ripening until the advent of freezing weather. A p^irple fig 

 grown and distributed from Safford also comes in two crops, ripening 

 until the green fruit is destroyed by frost. A fine tree of the black 

 variety is also reported from Tombstone. vSmyrna figs have been 

 planted at Gleeson, and while they endure the winter and set fruit, 

 none matures due to lack of pollination. A small white \'iriety 

 about 10 years of age, located near Willcox, now bears two to three 

 crops each year, producing almost continuously from the last frost 

 in spring to the first frost in autumn. 



Several large fig trees ire standing in the streets of Bisbee. 



Fig. .3. — View showing last 40 trees in rows A and B, Fig. 2. Note the poor condition of 

 the trees In row B, also the vacant spaces; and the three weak trees in row A with a second group 

 of healthy plants in the distance. 



In the Lower Verde River country, at an altitude of 3,315 feet, 

 a small white fig endures the winter, while a black variety grown in 

 the same location freezes to the ground. Two crops are produced 

 each year. 



Along the Upper Verde River, Angelique (white), San Pedro 

 and Mission (black) bear annually, but usually both the earliest 

 and latest figs of the first and last crops are destroyed by frosts 

 The white variety endures the conditions up to 4,500 feet eleva. 

 tion, while the black sorts .prove less hardy. With protection, plants 

 are easily carried through the winter, even at an elevation of 5,800 

 feet. 



