262 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CURING. 
Pheasant Eye—Mil de Perdrix.—Medium, variable turbinate or pyriform, 2} 
inches long by 1? wide. Short but set neck; short or no stalk; lopsided. 
Eye small, closed; skin faintly ribbed, rather waxy; color deep brown. green- 
ish on neck; pulp dull coppery amber, witha tint of salmon. A well-filled 
tig. Leaves below medium, coarse, 3 or 5 lobed, about 7} by 74 inches. This 
fig was received from the Royal Horticultural Society of London. It neither 
agrees fully with the description given by Dr. Hogg, nor does it correspond 
_with the description given by French nurserymen. 
Pichotte- Barnissotto—SAREIGNE. 
Pied de Bceuf.—Size medium to large, 24 by 14 inches to 1? inches; shape cblong 
pyriform, with long. narrow. curved neck; stalk medium tolong; skin rough, 
warty, with warty ribs, distinct both at apex and on neck: eye closed, small, 
surrounded by a rough, warty. e’evated iris, of thesame color as theskin, but 
surrounded by a lighter zone; scales 
large, violet; skin violet. chocolate 
‘brown, in some greenish olive in 
shade, with more yellow between the 
ribs. Thin blue bloom near the stalk. 
Color is diffused, apex and neck are 
not lighter colored; pulp amber yel- 
low, slightly rosy: meat greenish vel- 
low. A very good fig, remarkable on 
account of the color of its pulp, which 
is amber. while the skin is dark. The 
pulp, however, is quite coarse, though 
juicy. Tree an irregular spreading 
grower; leaves 3-lobed. Fruit ripens 
late. 
Pignette.—A small Italian fig. 
Pingo de Mel.—First crop: Above me- 
dium; largest figs are 24 inches wide 
by 3 inches long, pyriform, with a 
short and very thin but still distinct 
neck. Theneckis narrow; about one- 
fourth inch wideand even throughout; 
about three-fourthsinchlong. Great- 
est transverse diameter is below the 
center of the fig: stem short: skin 
smooth, waxy, pale green. Ribs in- 
distinct, consisting of numerous lines; 
eye smal, with large scales of amber 
color, margined white. Male zone 
distinct, but small; pulp whitish am- 
ber; male flowers around the throat 
and also scattered in the cavity of 
the receptacle, but few in number. 
Growth of tree sturdy,dense. Leaves 
medium to large, 5-lobed, rounded. 
Lobes rounded, deeply cut; but, as 
the lobes are wide and overlap each 
other, the sinuses between them are 
not very distinct. Stem of leaves as 
long as the leaves. This is a very Pra. 81.—Perruquier fig. 
good and juicy fig and one of the best 
green brebas. This fig variety belongs either to the class of the Cordelia fig, 
having male flowers with pollen, or to the class of edible caprifigs. It possesses 
numerous gall flowers in the cavity of the receptacle, but at this writing I 
have not yet found out if these galls are capable of sustaining wasps. At 
Niles this fig has never matured a second crop. As soon as it sets this year it 
will be caprificated, and it can then be determined with certainty to which class 
this fig belongs. At present I am inclined to consider it as an edible caprifig. 
(See description of this variety under Caprifig, p. 281.) 
Piombinese—SAN PEDRO, BLACK, 
Pissalutta—PIssaALUTTo BIANCO. 
Pissalutta Negra—PIissaLuTtTo NEGRO, 
Pissalutto—PIssSALUTTO BIANCO, 
Pissalutto Bianco—Pissalutta; Pittalussa; Poussouluda; Pitaluffe; Pissalutto 
(Italy); Fieus carica var. ligurica Geny; Liviana, Pliny?.—Size 14 by 2 
inches or over: medium; about one-half the weight of Dottato. Shape ovate- 
pyriform, the greatest width at the center. Neck medium, but very slender; 
