232 ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE FIG-TREE IN SYRIA. 
From this I conclude that every kind of Fig must have its corresponding 
male and female tree, To 
The foregoing facts and observations appear to show that the Aidin Fig- 
tree is diwcious ; that is, one sex grows on one tree, and the other sex on 
another. 
The Bardadgik Fig is excellent for eating fresh. The flowers are 
separate, as in the Aidin kind, with this difference, that in the Bar- 
dadgik they are almost always on the same tree. ‘This kind is thus 
monecious. The male flowers appear early on branches 1 or 2 years old; 
and then, about 10 or 20 days after, appear the female flowers on branches 
2 or more years old. The first, after ripening and opening, wither and 
fall, and the others grow much more slowly to maturity. ‘lhe male flowers 
are generally in smaller number than the female, and old trees do not 
produce male flowers, and it often occurs that some cultivated trees of this 
kind never give the male flower. The people of the country always sus- 
pend male flowers on this kind as well as on the others. 18 
With respect to the Cassaba Fig-tree, it is diwcious as well as the Aidin; 
still I have seen some specimens of this kind to be monecious like the 
Bardadgik. 
I have had some Fig-trees brought from the south of France of the 
kinds said to produce the flower Fig so much liked there, for the sake of 
establishing a comparison between our kinds and those kinds. The 
fact of the name of “ Flower Fig" given to the first Fig, would lead 
me to think they are monecious like our Bardadgik. They are yet too 
small to establish a comparison. 
I am inclined to think that an improvement could be introduced in our 
Figs, if a correct distinction could be made between the different male 
