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entire crop to Hotel Angelus at fifteen to twenty-five cents per pound, selling 

 700 pounds from my six trees, averaging twenty cents per pound season 

 average (average $23.20 per tree). 



Other seasons have sold entire crop in bulk off the trees to Lankershim, 

 Van Nuys and Beverly Hills Hotels at a flat rate of twelve and a half cents 

 straight. * * * By intensive culture my figs on the extreme six-inch tip 

 of the limbs attain immense size and crowd one another off, there being ten 

 to fifteen figs clustering on extreme tip of the limb. * * * I prune my 

 trees back very severely to permit of green picking, as I don't like to climb 

 to the clouds to gather my figs. * * * I have a few rootings for sale, 

 my price, like Mr. Taft's, being fifty to seventy-five cents, and for especially 

 fine trees I have received as high as $2.00 each. 



Respectfully, 



JOHN H. OLIVER. 



The Prospects of the Kadota Fig 



W. SAM CLARK 

 (Paper at Fig Institute, 1919) 



By the prospect of any undertaking we mean, in reality, the possibilities 

 which that undertaking holds in store for its promoters. To gain a view in 

 the mind's eye of the prospect or possibility of any undertaking we must in a 

 great measure be guided by what has transpired in the past, regarding that 

 same object, and we say the prospects are either good or poor. 



Regarding the Kadota fig we are compelled, most emphatically, to 

 pronounce the prospects good. 



We may say in all truth and sincerity that, judging the future by the 

 short past, these prospects exceed all our expectations, and even our fondest 

 hopes bid fair to be out-realized. 



In speaking of the Kadota fig I refer only to that fig distributed by the 

 late Stephen H. Taft and named by him, to distinguish this strain from sev- 

 eral other varieties, now ofttimes being marketed under the popular name of 

 Kadota; therefore planters should be absolutely sure of the origin of the 

 rootings they set out. 



A few years ago the Kadota was an experiment. Today it is an ac- 

 complished fact. It has sprung to the very head of every fig in its class, and 

 we might say it is almost in a class by itself; yet in some respects it overlaps 

 the granted prerogatives of some of the older varieties. I refer now to its 

 caprifying and drying qualities. I will dwell upon these points a little later. 



