Practical Fig Culture in Arizona 



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fig plant. Also, while older plantings have endured the conditions 

 of climate and soil, increased plantings in Gila, Mohave, Pima, 

 and Santa Cruz Counties have not been successful, yet in some parts 

 of Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma counties con- 

 ditions are favorable to production on a commercial scale. It is to 

 be noted that of the four counties in which no young trees are 

 reported, Santa Cruz and Gila counties report average yields of 

 100 to 287.9 pounds per tree. It is apparent that plantings can be 

 increased through the use of hardy stock. An inspection of the 

 data will show increased plantings of 6.6 per cent to 1,700 per cent 

 for different counties. 



INVESTIGATIONS IN SALT RIVER VALLEY 



A major portion of the investigations was conducted in a small 

 orchard of several varieties of figs located on the Experiment 

 Station Farm at Phoenix. There were 60 trees; 30 were planted 

 in 1904, the remainder in 1909. The following table gives data 

 relative to the orchard and its condition at the close of the 1915 

 growing season. 



TABLE IV. number OF STANDARDS, HEIGHT AND SPREAD OF TOPS, 



CONDITION OF THE PLANT, GROWTH OF NEW^ SHOOTS AND SUCK- 

 ERS OF 43 VARIETIES OF FIGS, 1915. 



Variety 



Cernica 



Mission, Black 



Mission, Black 



Rose Blanche 



Bourjassote Panache 



Magnolia 



Magnolia 



Bardajic 



Capri Milco 



Capri Milco 



Capri Milco 



Capri Milco 



Capri Milco 



White Adriatic 



White Adriatic . . . . 



Capri No. 1 



Capri No. 1 



Num- 

 ber of 

 stems 



1 



1 



3 



1 



2 



1 



3 



1 



1 



4 



4 



1 



4 



2 



1 



1 



1 



Height 



of 



top 



Feel 



4.5 



22 



17 



11 



12 



7 



8 



17 



10 



10 



2 



8 



8 



15 



15 



16 



12 



Spread 

 of 

 top 



Feel 



2 



30 



19 



14 



7 



7 



6 



22 



7 



8 



3 



5 



5 



23 



26 



26 



15 



Condition 

 of 

 plant 



Growtli 



new 



shoots 



Good 



Very good. 



Good 



Fair 



Good 



Very poor. . . 



Poor 



Very good. . 



Good 



Fair 



Fair 



Good 



Good 



Good 



Very good. . 

 Very good. . 

 Very good. . 



2.5 

 12 



5 



8 

 30 



1 



2.5 

 15 

 12 

 10 

 12 



6 



5 

 4 

 3 



8 



Average 

 length 

 suckers 



Inches Inches 



12 



48 



72 



6 



4 



