246 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND -CURING. 
medium, open, scales rosy violet: no iris. Bloom thin, very dark blue. Pulp 
red; meat greenish amber. A fair fig of small size, sweet, but poor flavor. 
Second crop is larger, sometimes 2} inches long by 1% wide. Skin with 
numerous very small golden specks; ribs more distinct and numerous. Eye 
flat, open: pulp violet red; better quality than first crop. Leaves 3-lobed, 
almost entire. A handsome rounded tree, giving much shade. A common 
variety, but one which could easily be dispensed with. The two Ischias are 
undoubtedly only color varieties of the same form. The leaves, habit of trees, 
shape of trees, etc., are the same. The form of the figs in the two varieties is 
almost the same. though in the black form the fig is slightly longer. (Fig. 69.) 
The spot on the leaf (a) illustrates the appearance of the iris of the eye. 
F1G. 69.—lschia, Black figs. 
Ischia, Brown—Chestnut-colored Ischia.—Medium, roundish turbinate; eye ver 
large. color light brown; skin thin, bursting easily after rain. A color var: 
ety of the Black Ischia. 
