SMYRNA FIG CULTURE. 5 
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 ar eored figs are of two kinds, the caprified or 
Smyrna figs and the common cultivated figs which do not require 
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Bia. 1.—Lob Ingir (Smyrna) figs. The large fig is fully mature, the others partly so. (Nearly natural 
size.) 
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 
