Practical Fig Culture in Arizona 



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CROPS OF FRUIT 



The fig is usually a profuse bearer, producing one to three 

 crops of fruit each year. Since the staminate and pistillate groups 

 vary greatly, separate discussions are introduced. 



The Capri fig naturally produces three crops each year, none 

 of which are edible. These crops are known as the winter or mamme, 

 spring or profichi, and summer or mammoni. Certain forms of Capri 

 figs produce one, two, and three crops, the number varying with the 

 species. The presence of well developed but dormant fruit on the 

 naked branches throughout the winter is essential to the propagation 

 of Elastophaga psenes, the fig wasp, the life history, habits, and use 

 of which insect are discussed later in this paper. 



Fig ";■ — Adriatic tyjje of fig. -4, side view; I<, apical view; C, view of the fruit cut 

 section lengthwise, showing the cavity lined with flowers, with eye leading to the outside; D, c 

 section of the fruit through the larger portion of the cavity. Photograph by W. H. Lawrence 



into 

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