SMYRNA FIG CULTURE. 



San Pedro, and, Versailles. In the Gulf and Atlantic Coast States 

 the kinds most generally grown are the Celeste, Magnolia, Lemon, 

 Brunswick, Ischia, and Brown Turkey. 



The common cultivated figs are of two kinds, the caprified or 

 Smyrna figs and the common cultivated figs which do not require 



Fig. 1. — Lob Ingir (Smyrna) figs. The large fig is fully mature, the others partly so. 



size.) 



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(Nearly natural 



caprification. Until recent years only varieties of the latter kind 

 were known in America. The figs of the Smyrna type do not set 

 any fruit at all unless the flowers are pollinated, that is, unless the 

 fig trees are caprified. Ordinary fig trees of the noncaprifying varie- 

 ties produce fruit perfectly well by themselves wherever the climate 



