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THE FRESNO NURSERIES 
FIGS. 
BRUNSWICK. T he largest black fig grown; meat sweet, but rather 
coarse; produces successive crops until September; starts ripening in 
June. 
BROWN TURKEY. Very large; color violet brown; the earliest large 
fig on the market. 
MISSION. A large black fig; most common in California; tree a good 
grower and a heavy bearer. 
SAN PEDRO. A very large and handsome fig; skin golden yellow, 
shaded green; excellent table fig; good flavor and very sweet; very 
early, ripening in June. 
CROSS-SECTION OF NO. 3 CAPRI FIG. 
Natural size; or, if anything a little smaller. Photographed June 19, 1900. 
WHITE ADRIATIC. Fruit very large; skin greenish yellow and thin 
as tissue paper; pulp is of carnation red color; exceedingly aromatic; 
fruits from August to October. 
CALIMYRNA. This now celebrated fig was imported from Smyrna, 
and first fruited on a commercial basis by Geo. C. Roeding of Fresno. 
Fruit is described by him as follows: Large to very large; trubinate, 
pyriform; very much flattened at the apex, neck very short, stalk short; 
ribs distinct, orifice large, of pale ochre color and widely open when 
the fig is mature and before shriveling; skin lemon yellow, pulp reddish 
amber; sometimes pale amber turning to dark amber just before falling; 
seeds large, yellow, fertile, overspread with a clear white syrup; giving 
the fruit its richness and meatiness surpassed by no other fig. Tree of 
spreading habit, leaves medium to large and five lobed. The dried figs 
contain 63-92 per cent, sugar which is 1Y2 per cent, more sugar than is 
found in the imported Smyrna fig; dries readily and with less trouble 
and expense than any other fig, dropping to the ground of its own ac¬ 
cord; being practically dry when it falls; requiring when placed on the 
trays only from two to three days exposure to the sun. This is the 
world famed fig of commerce. 
