216 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CURING. 
Blanche Hative—BLANCHE, 
Blanche Ronde—Found white.—Most varieties with such names as ‘‘Round 
White,” ‘‘ Long Black,” ‘‘Long White,” etc., refer in different localities to 
entirely distinct varieties. Such names should be discarded, as they serve to 
. Fig. 41.—Blanche fig—first crop. 
confound the nomenclature without precisely indicating the variety and with- 
out the possibility of identifying the variety except by careful coinparison or 
transplanting. Such varieties as a rule are also less valuable, as valuable figs 
are generally given different and distinct names. 
