Varieties of Fifjs — Straivberries 198 



small, very sweet, not subject to "fig sour," but dries 

 on the tree, becoming exceedingly sweet. I have trees 

 twenty -four years old that have been killed down only 

 once. These two varieties are the best for the northern 

 part of the cotton belt. Celestial, in the list of varieties 

 of figs, bears the relation to other varieties that the Seckel 

 pear does to other varieties of pears — small, but best. 



Brown Turkey and Brunsivick are the most popular 

 varieties further south. Both are large, of good quality, 

 but late. 



Green Ischia is a small late variety of superior 

 quality. 



The 'fig should not be gathered until tJioroughly ripe. 

 Ripeness is indicated by the softening of the fruit, the 

 changing of color and the bending of its stem. 



THE STRAWBERRY 



No garden is complete w^ithout a patch of this 

 delicious fruit, and yet, judged b}' this criterion, there 

 are numerous incomplete gardens in the South. 



The strawberry is a perennial plant, which propagates 

 by sending out runners on which new plants are formed. 

 After these have formed their own roots, they are used 

 to make new beds. Since this is a method of propagating 

 by division, the new plants produce the variety of the 

 parent. They may be propagated from seed, but the 

 plants thus grown will not reproduce the variety of the 

 parent on account of cross-pollenation of the flowers. 

 New varieties are originated by planting the seed. 

 Botanically, the strawberry is not a true fruit. The 



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