LUTHER BURBANK 
This is probably because the Capri fig has 
never been cultivated for color; in fact very little 
attention has been given to it, even for the — 
development of vigor and productivity. 
About the only attention paid it by the fruit 
grower has had reference to the early or late time 
of blooming. This is important merely because it 
is necessary that staminate and pistillate plants 
should bloom at the same time, else the fig wasp 
obviously cannot perform its pollenizing service. 
A pound of European figs, grown from flowers 
fertilized by the Capri insect (otherwise the seeds 
would be infertile) will produce perhaps ten thou- 
sand seedlings. But it requires patience to wait 
fifteen or twenty years to test the fruit, and it 
cannot be fairly tested in less time. 
It is difficult to hasten the process by grafting 
because the fig cion does not take kindly to being 
transplanted. 
Doubtless a satisfactory method of grafting 
might be developed, however, were sufficient at- 
tention given to the subject. Perhaps nothing more 
would be necessary than to protect the cion care- 
fully against drying, by covering it with a paper 
bag until union has taken place, as is done in 
grafting the orange and various other fruits, and 
the walnut. 
As just stated, the attempts to hybridize the fig 
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