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THE FBUIT MANUAL. 



CELESTINE.— Fruit, large, long, pyriform. Skin, of a pale 

 reddish brown or grizzly colour. Flesh, deep red, and of a rich and 

 very delicious flavour. 



Chestnut-coloured Ischia. See Brown Isehia. 



Clementine. See Brunswick. 



COL DI SIGNOEA BIANCA.— Fruit, medium sized, pyriform, 

 with a rather long neck, and marked with very distinct longitudinal 

 ribs. Skin, thick, green, but changing to yellowish white, and covered 

 with fine grey bloom. Stalk, short and stout. Eye, closed. Flesh, 

 of the darkest blood red ; very thick, syrupy, and most delicious. It 

 shrivels and dries weU. One of the finest figs in cultivation. 



COL DI SIGNORA NERO.— Fruit, above medium size, long 

 pyriform, with longitudinal ribs running from the stalk towards the 

 apex. Skin, entirely dark chocolate, covered with a thin grey bloom, 

 and when at perfect maturity cracking into irregular markings. Eye, 

 small and open. Flesh, very dark red throughout, Uke Col di Signora 

 Bianca and Gros de Draguignan ; exceedingly rich and sugary, in fact 

 a perfect conserve. Ripens late. 



Col di Signora Bianca Panachee. See Panaehee. 



Common Purple. See Brown Turkey. 



CCURCOURELLE BRUNE.— Fruit, small, roundish. Skin, of a 

 deep brown, covered with thick blue bloom ; some are stalked, and 

 others very little so. Flesh, deep red or rose-coloured, tender, but 

 very indifferently flavoured. 



COURCOURELLE GAVOTTE.— Fruit, about medium size, round, 

 marked longitudinally, not so much with ribs as with dark lines indi- 

 cating them. No neck. Skin, deep purplish black over the apex, 

 and where fully exposed to the sun, but shading off to a paler and even 

 to a greenish bronze in the shade, covered with a pretty blue bloom. 

 Eye, open. Flesh, dark blood colour throughout, thick, syrupy, and 

 richly flavoured. 



A very first-rate fig. The skin cracks as it ripens. 



Cyprus. See Yellow Ischia. 



DATTE. — Fruit, pyriform, with a short thick neck, and marked 

 longitudinally with obscure ribs. Skin, of a dingy brown, or rather a 

 dirty, muddy colour all round the apex, and gradually becoming paler 

 towards the stalk, where it is green. Eye, small and closed. Stalk, 

 extremely short, scarcely perceptible. Flesh, dark rose-coloured, 

 thick and syrupy, with a rich flavom-. Excellent. 



DE L'ARCHIPEL.— Fruit, large, obovate; scarcely any neck; 

 marked with longitudinal ridges from the stalk to the apex. Sometimes 



