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THE SMYRNA FIG AT HOME AND ABROAD 



wide usage, will be a feature of every bakery catering to the constantly growing 

 % demand for the better grades of table delicacies in the way of baked products. For 

 sauces and preserves, it is indeed a fruit calculated to delight the housekeeper and 

 give zest to any meal of which it is served as a dessert. 



In the practice oj^ medicine the Smyrna Fig occupies a unique position, and must 

 be regarded as the equal of the olive in certain ailments^ to_.which poor humanity is 

 more or less subject. The fruit either cured or fresh, acts as a mild and gentle 

 laxative, calculated to regulate the functions of digestion, and assimilation, without 

 any of the disturbing elements of more radical remedies. As a matter of fart. 

 people of sedentary employment should make the Smyrna Fig a regular article of diet. 



In certain ailments, the leaves and the acrid sap of the green growth have a 

 medicinal value. 



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