198 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND ‘CURING. 
In California the growers are now packing the figs in 5 and 10 
pound boxes. Instead of bars the figs are packed in slightly oblong 
blocks of 1 pound each. Each such fig block is wrapped separately 
in paraffin paper, and in some instances tied with a colored ribbon. 
Five or ten such blocks are placed in one box. This packing, while 
now much in use, is not to be recommended, as it hides the figs and 
the buyer does not know what he gets. The idea of packing the figs 
in blocks of 1 pound each is, however, an excellent one for small figs, 
bunt the largest figs could hardly be accommodated to sueh small 
blocks. 
