BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF FIGS. 9OI 



The time at which these respective crops of the caprifig 

 come to maturity does not exactly correspond with the 

 time of the ripening of the edible figs. The first crop of 

 both figs appears and ripens at about the same time, but 

 the second crop of the caprifig ripens before the second 

 crop of the edible fig. The first and second crop figs of 

 the edible varieties are continuous in their appearance at 

 least, and continue so until late in the fall. Figs of al- 

 most every size may always be found on the edible fig 

 tree during its period of vegetation. But in the caprifig 

 the various crops are more distinct and separate, there 

 being often short time between the maturing of the sec- 

 ond crop and the appearance of the third crop on the 

 same tree. 



In Smyrna the various crops of the caprifig are con- 

 fined to distinct trees, which again have received distinct 

 names, though both kinds are undoubtedly only distinct 

 sexes of the same variety of caprifig. The tree which 

 bears the first crop, hoghadhes, are known as orginos hog- 

 hadhes, while those trees which bear the second crop or 

 ashmadhes are known as orginos ashmadhes. 



The first crop or the orginos hoghadhes never contain 

 any male flowers and pollen. This tree may, however, 

 have a later crop which bears male flowers. 



The orginos ashmadhes again which produce the figs 

 used for caprification, which crop is the second crop or 

 the ashmadhes, do as a rule never possess any first crop. 

 It will therefore be seen that in order to possess a com- 

 plete succession of crops of the caprifig, we must either 

 cultivate varieties which bear three crops on the same 

 tree, or if we grow the Smyrna orginos we must have 

 both the hoghadhes and the ashmadhes. The former 

 breed the first crop of blastophagas, the ashmadhes again 

 breed the second crop of blastophagas from eggs laid 

 by the wasps hatching from the hoghadhes. 



