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The Smyrna Vig of commerce proper stands out amongst them, 
almost as prominently as does the Washington Navel amongst 
Oranges. 
Two distinet crops come out in the season—the first coming 
out in the Spring out of the previous year's shoots; and the second 
growing on the new wood just as the former is ripening. 
Only a few of the first crop mature, the bulk of them drop- 
ping from the tree when quite small. Like all immature first crop 
figs, these, although of large size, contain nothing but hollow seeds 
and lack flavour and substance. The ostiolum or eye is closed, and 
fertilisation cannot take place. 
The Aprtaric or self-fertile class comprise all those figs which 
need no external assistauce to mature their fruit. 
Most of them bear two crops, and some drop their first crop. 
Only white, ercam, and pink fleshed figs are dried; black-skinned 
have no commercial value for drying. Three to four pounds of 
green fruit yield one pound of dried. 
SruBBerRFIELD’s Extra Earny.—A new kind of value for rip- 
ening very early. 
Waite Gonxoa. (svn. White Marseilles, White Naples).— 
One of the most delicious figs in cultivation. Good for 
table, peels off easily, and dries remarkably well. Frnit: above 
medium, quite round, with a 
short neck and well-marked 
longitudinal ridges running 
from the stalk to the apex. 
Skin pale green. [Eye open. 
Flesh opaline, exceedingly 
rich, juicy, and sugary. 
Wuite Apriatic (syn. 
Fico di Fragola or Straw- 
berry Fig)—One of the 
finest grown, 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. The first 
crop does not set but the White Adriatic. 
second is abundant. 
