902 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



As the boghadhes or first crop and the ashmadhes or 

 second crop in Smyrna are produced on different trees, 

 it will be seen that either we must have both of these trees 

 in the same orchard, or we must vcaprificate the trees 

 bearing only the second crop. The latter plan is adopted 

 in Smyrna, where only orginos ashmadhes are cultivated. 

 There two or three strings with caprifigs are hung on the 

 edible fig, while in order to produce crops of figs and fig 

 wasps on the caprifigs eight or ten strings with figs are 

 required, the conditions and sizes of trees being equal. 



Names of the Cro^s. — In order to avoid misunderstand- 

 ings, the various crops are given distinct names in all 

 foreign countries where fig culture is prominent. The 

 crops of the caprifig, which not always correspond with 

 the crops of the edible figs, are named differently. The 

 following table will give a clearer idea of these names. 

 As the English language has no suitable names for the 

 various crops of the caprifig and the fig, I propose that 

 we for the early first crop of edible figs adopt the Span- 

 ish name "brebas," and that we simply call the second 

 crop edible figs, "figs," or autumn figs. For the caprifig 

 I believe we can do no better than adopt the nomencla- 

 ture of the German specialists who now use the Neapol- 

 itan names: mamme, projichi ?ind inammoni, respectively 

 for the first, second and third crops. There can thus be 

 no misunderstanding as to what is meant. These names 

 are rapidly becoming international and would admirably 

 serve their purpose. In the following pages of this paper 

 I shall as much as possible avail myself of those names. 

 As our fig industry develops the words "brebas" and 

 " profichi " (48) will become household words just as 

 for instance the word " dehesas " has been adopted by 

 both raisin - growers, raisin- packers and by the public 

 generally. 



