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250 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CURING. 
Before full maturity the pulp is streaked red. Requires caprification. The 
figs of the caprificated Smyrna fig should never be cut ‘rom the tree, but be 
allowed to fall naturally to the ground. The dropping of the ripe figs always 
occurs at the proper time—that is. when the figs are fully ripe and ready for 
drying. If the figs are cut from the tree before they are ready to drop they 
willremain hard andinferior. Inorder tc insure a perfect dried fig the ground 
under trees should be soft and mellow and there should be no large clods. As 
soon as the figs have dropped they are at once picked up and examined. 
Many of them are ready for packing without further drying. In case they 
are too moist or pulpy one or two days’ exposure to the sun shou!d suffice to 
bring them to the proper state of desiccation for packing. 'This is the true 
Smyrna fig of commerce, grown and extensively cultivated in the valley of 
the Meander near Smyrna. It isa distinct fig, and this and no other fig should 
be known as Smyrna, if this name is to be used atall. The promiscuous use of 
the name Smyrna figs can not be too much condemned. (See Smyrna figs, 
p. 278.) 
Long Marseillaise—MARSEILLAISE, LONG. 
Long Naples—BROWN TURKEY. 
Long Verdal—VERDAL, LONG. 
Long Yellow—Longue Jaune.—Skin reddish yellow. A long, turbinate fig. 
Longue Jaune—LOnG YELLOW. 
Longue Marseillaise—M ARSEILLAISE, LONG. 
Lucrezia—Cou pi SIGNORA BIANCA. 
Lusitanica.—France. Possibly identical with LAMPEIRA. 
Madame Trille—TRILLE. 
Madeleine—MAGDALEN. 
Madonna— BRUNSWICK. 
Magdalen— Madeleine; De la Madeleine.—Size below medium to small, about 14 
by 14 inches, quite round, or slightly pyriform and obtuse. Ribs distinctly 
prominent and rough, especially toward the stalk, while diminishing in prom- 
inence toward the eye, but entirely disappearing immediately around it. 
Stalk longer than one-half the fig eye open, comparatively large, but depressed: 
scales very small and few o. a pale whitish amber. Skin greenish-yellow or 
yellow on cheek, greenish in the shade; pulp amber white: meat white. A 
very delicious little fig, far superior to the Ischias and the Celestes. (Fig. 72.) 
The above description is taken from fig trees imported from France by Mr. 
Gillet to California and grown in Santa Clara Valley. They differ from those 
received by the Royal Horticultural Society of London, as seen below. Dr. 
Hogg gives Madeleine as synonymous with Angelique, which is erroneous, 
Angelique is a distinct fig of larger size, much more flattened, and of the 
shape of a flat onion. 
Madeleine—De la Madeleine.—Size medium; 24 inches long by 1} inches wide; 
pyriform: lopsided. No distinct neck and very small stalk. Ribs shallow, 
numerous, contiuent; eye medium, open; scales Jarge. Skin waxy, cracking, 
of a yellowish-green color: pulp coarse, rosy amber and pure amber toward 
stalk end. Vinous and juicy, but not highly flavored. Tree strong grower, 
with large, coarse. shallow, 3-lobed leaves, about 9 inches long by 8 wide, 
woolly underneath. This fig was received thus named from the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society of London. It is a distinct fig from the true Magdalen. 
Mahounaise.—Color red. Salon and St. Remi, France. 
Malta—Small Brown.—Small, roundish turbinate, compressed at apex; pale brown 
when fully ripe; pulp pale brown. Dries well and becomes a perfect sweet- 
meat. (Hogg.) 
MAPLE-LEAVED SMYRNA. (See Smyrna figs, p. 278.) 
Maravilla—PRINCESSa. 
Maris No. 2—GouRAUD NOIRE, 
Marseillaise—ATHENES. 
Marseillaise—MARSEILLAISE, WHITE, 
Marseillaise, Black—Black Marseillaise; Black Provence; Noire de Provence; 
Reculver? Hogg; Ficus: phoceana Risso; Marseillaise Negra (Provence).— 
Size medium; shape oblong-pyriform, with a distinct neck; body not flattened 
at apex; stalk long, about one-third the length of the fig. Ribs distinct, espe- 
cially toward the neck, gradually disappearing toward the eye. Eye closed, 
medium size; scales large, red, slightly standing out. Skin waxy and slightly 
downy, finc. of a dark blnish black, with very thin bloom. Pulp rosy red; 
meat white. not very finely grained, but good. Nolargeseed. Provence and 
Nice. This tig is not related to the Marseillaise, White, nor to the Athénes and 
does not bear a few large seeds, as do all figs related to Marseillaise, White. 
(Figs. 73, 74.) 
