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The ADRIATIC or self-fertile class comprise all those figs which 

 need no external assistance to mature their fruit. 



Most of them bear two crops, and some drop their first crop. 

 Only white, cream, and pink fleshed figs are dried ; black-skinned 

 have 110 commercial value for drying. Three to four pounds of 

 green fruit yield one pound of dried. 



WHITE GENOA (syn. White Marseilles, White Naples). 

 One of the most delicious figs in cultivation. Good for table, peels 

 off easily, and dries remark- 

 ably well. Fruit: above 

 medium, quite round, with a 

 short neck and well-marked 

 longitudinal ridges running 

 from the sialk to the apex. 

 Skin pale green. Eye open. 

 Flesh opaline, exceedingly 

 rich, juicy, and sugary. 



WHITE ADRIATIC 

 (syn. Fico di Fragola or 

 Strawberry Fig). One of the 

 finest grown trees, and a 

 strong growing and hardy 

 kind. Fruit : medium size, 

 rounded pyriform, with 

 medium neck. Skin greenish 

 in the shade, greenish-yellow 

 in the sun. Eye open, with 

 red iris ; pulp bright straw- 

 berry red, drying to a rather 

 pale yellow. Skin very thin, 

 and together with the pulp 

 forming a most delicious 

 sweetmeat when grown in 

 favourable places. white Adriatic. 



BROWN TURKEY. --One of the earliest sorts. Tree very 

 prolific, hardy ; fruit large, oblong, pyriform; skin brownish red ; blue 

 bloom ; thick pulp ; sweet and good ; dark pink colour. 



GftAPES (Vitis). 

 FOR DRYING. 



In France the period of ripening of wine grapes has been 

 reckoned by Pulliat from the time of ripening of the Golden 

 Chasselas thus : First period of maturity, to which belong all vines 

 which ripen their grapes five to six days before or after Golden 

 Chasselas. Second period of maturity, including all vines ripening 

 their grapes 12 to 14 days after Chasselas. Third period, including 

 those ripening their grapes 24 to 30 days after Chasselas. Fourth 



