264 THE FIG: ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CURING. 
Pitaluffe—PissaLuTTo BIaNco. 
Pittalussa—PIssaLUTTO BIANCO, 
Pittilonga—San PEDRO, BLACK. 
Porto—De Porto.—A black fig, tree dwarf. For table and drying. Seyne, St. 
Maximin, etc., France. 
Portoghese—LAMPEIRA. 
Portugal, Black (provisional name).—Largest fig known. About 4 inches wide 
by 5incheslong; pyriform. Short neck and very short stalk. Eyesmall, open, 
with very small black scales. Ribs narrow, indistinct. Skin otherwise 
smooth. Color deep violet black, greenish around thestalkend. Pulp violet 
strawberry red. Meat white with violet streaks. Pulp not finely grained, 
but very sweet and highly flavored. One of the handsomest figs grown and 
one to be recommended for market. Bearing quality very good from early to 
late. Tree a straggling grower and not dense, the limbs spreading in all 
directions, allowing plenty of air and sun among the branches. Leaves 
medium to small, oblong, with 3-pointed lobes and. sometimes with 2 addi- 
tional small basal lobes. This fig was brought from Portugal by emigrants 
to Niles, Cal., where it is now growing. The true name of the variety is 
unknown tome. Possibly the same as Douro. 
Poulette.—First crop small; fruit medium or above medium; ovate or rounded, 
with short neck: stalk short; skin ashy green; pulp bright rose. Good. 
Second crop one-half smaller; eye closed, ashy green with gray bloom. Pulp 
dark red, quite juicy, and sweet. Tree medium; leaves medium, deeply 
3-lobed. Good for drying; stands therain well. Tarascon and Salon, France. 
Pounchuda— Ficus acuta Risso; Ficus sylvestris var. prelonga Geny.—Two 
crops; second crop medium; 2 by 1#inches; oblong, gradually tapering to the 
stalk; neck long; skin pistachio green to yellowish; pulp reddish yellow, 
sweet, and honeylike in taste. Nice, France. 
Poussouluda—PIssaLUTTo BIANCO. 
Précoce d@ Espagne—TRIFERO. 
Pregussata—PERGUSSATA. 
Princessa—Figa Turca; Figa Maravilla; Figa Princessa; Ficus radiata Risso; 
Ficus carica var.lunata Geny; Turca; Princess Fig; Maravilla.—Second crop: 
Turbinate, rounded at apex; skin longitudinally divided in regular bands 
alternating green and bright yellow; eye large, raised, red; pulp bright red: 
good. A very handsome and fine fig. Provence and Savoy, France. 
Princess Fig—PRINCESSA. 
Purple—BRown TURKEY. 
PURPLE SMYRNA. (See Smyrna figs, p. 279.) 
Quarteria.—Size medium, about 1# inches long by 24 inches wide, though some- 
times not wider than long; turbinate or flattened like an onien. Few distinct 
ribs; no neck and stalk; eye small, but open; scales few and short; skin waxy, 
shades of green, with a fine gray bloom around the neck end, but which does 
not extend to the cheek, the bloom ending with a sharp margin. Eye rosy 
amber, with rosy iris; pulp coarse, bright but pale rose; meat amber. A 
good, highly flavored, and juicy fig. Fine for drying. Tree strong; round 
head with very dense leaves closely set on limbs. Leaves oblong, about 9 
inches long by 7 inches wide, rather deeply 3-lobed, sometimes entire. 
Quasse Blanche.—A reddish-gray fig, cultivated at Baudal and Seyne, France. 
Quotidienne—DATTE QUOTIDIENNE. 
Rabbit Blood—SanG DE LiEVRE. 
Raby Castle.—Fruit about medium or below medium; rounded, obtuse and flat- 
tened at apex; no neck, but long stalk; eye small; skin coarse, with very 
prominent ribs which are rather irregular; color greenish white; no bloom; 
pulp coarse with a few very large seed; color, white amber; sweet, but no 
flayor. A poor grower. Leaves sinall, thick, 3 to 5 lobes, and rough, with 
very long stalks, which are often considerably larger than the leaf. Belongs 
to the Marseillaise group, but is much inferior. Dr. Hogg is in error in class- 
ing this fig as a synonym of the Marseillaise. It is much coarser, with heay- 
ier ribs and with a white pulp, and the tree is less densely covered with leaves, 
In the interior of California Raby Castle is an inferior fig. In the vicinity of 
San Francisco Bay it is sweeter, but still always very coarse, and the author 
thinks itis not worthy of cultivation in this country, where so many better 
figs are grown. (Fig.83.) 
Raby Castle.—Below medium, turbinate, about 1} inches wide by 14 inches long. 
No neck and short stalk. Flattened atapex. Manyshallowribs. Tree mod- 
erate grower with rounded head. Leaves deeply 3-lobed. This fig resembles 
greatly the Pacific White and may be identical with that ig. Name doubtful. 
