CATALOGUE AND DESCRIPTION OF FIGS. 255 
is a good grower, with the lower branches drooping, and light bark. Leaves 
5 lobed, glossy, longer than broad and lighter green than most other figs, and 
most characteristically mottled with lighter, yellowish green. A coarse fig, 
which, however, thrives and bears well ‘almost everywhere. It dries well and 
when dry is rather of pleasant quality and seems especially adapted to Cali- 
fornia and Arizona. where it is extensively distributed. Also common in 
Sonora and Baja California, and probably in other of the Pacific States. 
Introduced by the Franciscan missionaries in the eighteenth century. There 
is only one variety of Mission fig. The general belief that the Mission is a 
dist'nct California fig is erroneous. Wecan no more lay exclusive claim to 
this fig than can Mexico and Chile. It was undoubtedly brought from Spain or 
Portngal at a very early date after the conquest. The early padres and mis- 
sionaries in the Pacific coast States cultivated no other variety of fig. (Pl. XV.) 
Moissoa—MoOvlrIssouna. 
Moissonne Noire—MoOvlIssouna. 
Monaco Bianco— White Monaco.—Large. 24 by 2 inches: shape rounded, turbi- 
nate, flattened. Neck small, but very distinct and well set; ribs numerous, 
slightly elevated, narrow, but very distinct down to the apex. but not so 
marked on neck. Eye very open, scales large, dark amber, iris slightly 
elevated from a surrounding depression, with faint color of dark green; skin 
dark b.uish-green, even all around, or the shaded side only slightly paler in 
sun, mottled with dark amber. Thin bloom; pulp dark rose; meat amber 
seo. A very good, juicy fig. splendid for table; does well at Niles, Cal. 
(Fig. 76.) 
Monaie.—Second crop above medium, globular, but compressed; color ashy vio- 
let, somewhat bronzy: skin thick; pulp brown. Good. 
Monege blanche—France. 
Monginence—DouQuEIRA NEGRA. 
Monnoire.—Medium; rounded; green. France. 
Monstreuse.— Medium, about 2} by 12 inches wide; turbinate, with a short, thin 
neck, bent and weil set: no stalk. Skin smooth, with faint, irregular, and 
crenated ridges; apex flat: eye medium te small, open, with erect scales. 
Skin waxy, covered with a fine bloom around the ‘stalk and ending sharply 
before the equator is reached. Color uniform pale green: pulp ‘brow nish 
salmon. dense, vinous, but not highly favored. Leaves large, about 10 inches, 
3-lobed, without spurs, very coarse underneath. This fig is said by Rev. Dr. 
W. Wilks, secretary Royal Horticultural Society of London, to be identical 
with Grosse Monstreuse de Lipari, but the fig sent by him and from which 
the above description is taken 1s not identical with that fig, which is said by 
Hogg to be brown in color. 
Montegas.—Above medium. A drying fig. 
Moresca—Gentilla Roussa (Nice); Ficus sylvestris var. mauritanica Geny.—Two 
crops: First crop very large, 34 to 4 inches by 2} inches; pyriform, lopsided, 
with a very long neck. Color bright gray: eye star shaped, raised, red; pulp 
pale red or yellowish. Grown around Nice, France, and supposed to have 
been introduced from Algiers, 
Morlaise.—Very large. France. 
Moscadello—ALzBo. 
Mouissouna—WMoissonne Noire; Bowissonne; Mouissonne; Moissoa (Nice); Mouis- 
sone (Italy); Mowissonne Noire (Provence); Ficus mouissona Risso; Ficus 
erin. var. salsula Geny: Figue violette N. Duhamel.—Two crops: Second 
crop almost globular, turbinate, 1? inches long by 2 to 24 inches wide: broader 
than long, flattened at apex. Skin thin, fine, tender, of a blackish violet color, 
with blue bloom. Eye reddish: pulp red, soft, very sweet and like a date in 
taste. Best of all theearly figs, but inferior to Barnissotto Black. which. how- 
ever, is later. Leaves 5-lobed, crenate, lobes acute. First crop longer, very 
few. Requires a soil neither too dry nor too wet; in the former the figs would 
drop and in the latter they would become of poor taste. (Fig. 77.) 
Mouissone—MOvuIssoUNA. 
Mouissonne—MOvuIssOUNA. 
Mouissonne Fugia.—A variety of MoUISSOUNA. 
Mowissonne Noire—MOovulIssouna. 
Mourenao—Bagassa (Villa Franca): Ficus mouwrenao Risso: Ficus sylvestris 
var. olivula Geny.—Small, 14 inches diameter; almost g'obular; skin thick, 
cracking, blackish violet; pulp red, medium quality. Nice and Provence. 
According to Duhamel there is a Mourenao with oblong fruit and white pulp; 
leaves 3-lobed, obtuse. undulating, though I believe an error was made in 
describing the pulp and that both descriptions refer to the same variety. 
