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THE FIG. 
Brown Ischia. Thomp. 
Chestnut. Lind. Mill. Chestnut-coloured Ischia. 
A good variety, with, however, a rather thin skin, rendering 
it liable to crack or burst open when fully ripe. It is hardy, of 
good habit, and a very excellent bearer. 
Fruit of medium size, roundish obovate. Skin light or chest- 
nut-brown ; pulp purple, very sweet and excellent. 
Black Genoa. Lind. 
The fruit of this fig is long-obovate, that portion next the 
stalk being very slender. Skin dark purple, becoming nearly 
black, and covered with a purple bloom. Pulp bright red, fla- 
vour excellent. Habit of the tree moderately strong. 
Malta. Lind. 
Small Brown. 
A small, but very rich fig, which will often hang on the tree 
until it begins to shrivel, and becomes “a fine sweetmeat.” 
Fruit much compressed at the apex, and very much narrowed 
jn towards the stalk. Skin light brown. Pulp pale brown, and 
of a sweet, rich flavour. Ripens later than the foregoing, about 
the last of August. 
Small Brown Ischia. Lind. 
A very hardy sort, which, in tolerably warm places south of 
Philadelphia, will make a small standard tree in the open air, 
bearing pretty good crops, that ripen about the first of Sep- 
tember. Fruit small, pyriform, with a very short footstalk. 
Skin light brown. Pulp pale purple, of high flavour. Leaves 
more entire than those of the common fig. 
Violette. Lind. Dull. 
A very good sort from the neighbourhood of Paris, where it 
produces two crops annually. Fruit small, roundish-obovate, 
flattened at the apex. Skin dark violet. Pulp nearly white, or 
a little tinged with red on the inside, and of rfleasant flavour. 
Violette de Bordeaux. Thomp. 
Bordeaux. Lind. Dull. 
A fig which is much cultivated in France, being quite pro- 
ductive, though of inferior flavour to many of the foregoing 
sorts. Fruit large, pyriform, about three inches long, and two 
in diameter. Skin deep violet when fully ripe, but at first of a 
brownish red. Pulp reddish purple, sweet and good. 
