945 containing the fly. 

 . 240 without the fly. 



OS THE CAPRIFICATION OF THE FIG. 205 



insect, and 27 without ; on the 30th, under several caprified 

 Lardaro trees, I collected \6S pedagmwli (about an inch long) 

 and a great number of cimaruoli. Of the first, 66 with the 

 styles decayed and blackened, contained the insect, 29 had them 

 similarly decayed, but the insect had probably escaped, and 73 

 without the fly were not altered withinside. Amongst the 

 cimaruoli, some had the insect, some not. On the 2nd of 

 August, 55 pedagnuoli with the fly, 25 without ; and a great 

 many cimaruoli as before. On the 9th of August, 48 with the 

 insect, 56 without; on the 17th, about 200 with the insect, and 

 as many without. Thus out of 793 fallen figs of the Lardaro, a 

 little more than half (412) contained the insect, the others (381) 

 did not, and showed no sign of decay or other change. 



Of the Chiaja fig, I counted of fallen fruits, pedagnuoli and 

 cimaruoli — 



24 July . , .136 



27 „ . . . 172 



29 „ . . . 164 



3 August . .473 



24 July . . . 46 



27 „ . . .20 



29 „ . . .47 



3 August . .127 



In this case there appears a great surplus among the fallen 

 fruits of those into which the insect had penetrated, so that its 

 effect appears ratlier to have been prejudicial. The trees had 

 been abundantly caprified, and in every fruit there were gene- 

 rally more than one insect in the cavity, or amongst the scales ; 

 but more frequently amongst these, and round the insects, there 

 were evident signs of corruption. The fruits without insects 

 generally showed no alteration, excepting that in some the 

 greater part or all the styles were faded, dried up, or slightly 

 discoloured. But the results of the above-mentioned enumera- 

 tion must not be considered as invariable, for the same fig-tree 

 bears very differently in different years, according to the season, 

 as well as to the quantity it bore the preceding year ; and besides 

 the finding more or less of the fruits with insects depends on the 

 greater or less quantity of caprified fruits suspended, and the 

 period when that was done, as there are some cultivators who 

 caprify three times, and then the insect is found as well in the 

 pedagnuoli as in the cimaruoli. Last year having returned to 

 the same fig-trees, and again examined their fallen fruits, I found 

 the proportions a little diflTerent from those I had ascertained the 

 previous year. In the Sarnese fig the fallen fruits without 

 insects surpassed the others by about a third ; in the Chiaja and 

 the white fi^ the numbers with and without the insect were 



