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SEMITROPICAL FRUITS 



ripen the fruit and not cold enough to kill the tree. The 

 fig should have plenty of moisture, but not too much. 



In the orchard, the trees should be set forty or more feet 

 apart, unless they are to be thinned later, as the tree is a 



wonderful spreader. If 

 planted this far apart, 

 smaller fruit trees may be 

 planted between the rows 

 and removed after several 

 years, when the fig trees 

 are in need of the room. 

 In pruning, little except 

 the cross branches need 

 be cut off after the shape 

 has become outlined. Not 

 more than three limbs 

 should be allowed to grow 

 out from the trunk, and 

 these should be well 

 placed around it. 



Fig trees begin bearing 

 at from two to three years 



FIG. 96. San Jos6 scale insect; m, male scale;/, 



female scale; y, young scale, a, young insect. Q age, and SCVCral CrODS 

 Enlarged. 



a year are produced, 

 the olive, the fig has few insect pests. 



Like 



San Jose Scale 



One of the most troublesome pests of citrus and many 

 other fruit trees is the San Jose scale. It does not 

 look like an insect at all. Little gray or black specks in 

 patches on the limbs or on the trunks of fruit trees are 



