4 BULLETIN 732, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
a large shipment of cuttings which it was found could be had at a 
reasonable price from one of the best orchards in the Meander Valley, 
the most important fig district of Asia Minor. Every precaution had 
been taken to assure the safe arrival of this consignment, even by 
shipping moss from New York in which to pack the cuttings. The 
cases on arrival in New York were repacked before being shipped 
across the continent by the southern route, as the season was mid- 
winter. 
The shipment consisted of 14,000 cuttings, including several varie- 
ties of the best Smyrna figs. It weighed several tons and arrived in 
excellent condition. W.B. West, of Stockton, James Shinn, of Niles, 
Gov. Leland Stanford, of San Francisco, and Dr. J. D. B. Stillman, of 
Lagona, Cal., had shares in the importation, but the San Francisco 
Bulletin Company had the larger portion and paid the greater part of 
the expense. A large number of cuttings were distributed to 3,000 
county subscribers of the Bulletin, while the individual shares went 
to the different partners in the enterprise. Gov. Stanford planted 
most of his cuttings on his ranch near Vina, Cal., now the property of 
Stanford University. The trees resulting from this importation are 
now growing in all parts of California and other Southwestern States. 
Some have attained gigantic size, a number recently measured by the 
writer having trunks 3 feet in diameter. 
‘CLASSIFICATION OF CULTIVATED FIGS. 
The cultivated varieties of Ficus carica include more than 100, 
most of which have been successfully established in the Southern and 
Southwestern States and California. The Lob Ingir variety, the 
Turkish name of the common Smyrna fig (fig. 1), is unique in requiring 
pollination in order to bring its fruit to perfection. Linnzus and 
other botanists as early as 1744 reached the conclusion that the 
capri fig is the male form and all the common varieties, including 
the Smyrna, the female forms of a diecious species. The caprifigs 
are male, because they contain male or staminate flowers; the com- 
mon varieties and Smyrnas are female, because they contain only 
female or pistillate flowers. These fertile or female figs may be 
again divided into two classes, namely, the Smyrna figs, the flowers 
of which must be pollinated in order to mature fruit, and the other 
large class, frequently called the Adriatic class, the fruits of which 
reach maturity without pollination. The latter race includes most 
of the varieties cultivated in all fig-growing countries. Some of the 
best and most extensively grown in this country are the Adriatic, 
Brunswick, Barnissotte Black, Barnissotte White, Dottato or Kodato, 
White Genoa, Gentile, Large Black Douro (one of the largest m culti- 
vation), Mission or California Black, Pastelliére (Eisen says if he 
could plant only one blue variety it would certainly be this fig), Black 
