Brunswick. \ ery large and pyriform; skin green¬ 
ish yellow in the shade, pale brown on the other 
side; a very rich and excellent fig. 
Celeste. Fruit large; reddish brown; flesh dark 
red; highly prized for table preserves and crystal- 
*1- Z1 i n §’’ W1 dr >' U P an d improve in saccharine matter 
if left on the tree. 
Col di Signora Nigra. Large; pyriform; dark 
chocolate color; flesh very dark red throughout; 
exceedingly rich and sugary. 
Dauphine. Large; round; turbinate; skin violet 
red; flesh red; one of the varieties grown for the 
Fans market; tree very hardy and ripens its fruit 
well. 
Doree. Medium; oblong; color bright yellow; flesh 
salmon rose, rich and sugary flavor. 
Drap d’Or. I.arge; oblong; greenish yellow with 
a brown cheek; flesh light rose color, turns amber 
when fully ripe; very rich, fine-grained and sweet. 
Du Roi. 
yellowish 
A delicious fig of medium size; skin 
green; flesh white. 
Lardaro. Large; oblong; skin pale yellow with 
brown cheek; flesh deep red, rich and sugary. 
a 
Madeline. Large; pyriform; skin light yellow; 
flesh light amber, fine-grained, rich, sugary flavor. 
It is a heavy bearer and ripens its crop all in two 
weeks’ time. 
Ronde Violette Hative. Large; roundish, oval; 
skin yellow, covered over with pale brown; flesh 
dark red, fine-grained, tender, rich. Ripens early. 
Royal Vineyard. Medium size, long, pyriform; 
skin very thin, hairy, reddish brown or purple; flesh 
bright reddish, very juicy and melting. 
San Pedro. Nearly round and somewhat flat¬ 
tened; bright, deep yellow in the sun; pulp rather 
coarse, but sweet; good flavor. 
Warren’s Brown Turkey. Very large; greenish 
violet; flesh rosy amber, streaked with violet. 
Strong grower and heavy bearer. 
White Genoa. Fruit very large; yellow; rich and 
fine-grained. It produces large crops during the 
entire season until October. 
White jschia. Small; pale greenish yellow; flesh 
purple, highly flavored and luscious; will ripen its 
iruit along the coast, where the finer varieties do 
not mature. 
White Marseilles. Medium or small; skin ex¬ 
tremely thin, pale yellowish green; pulp amber with 
a delicate and delicious flavor. Tree small, but 
bears well. Very fine fresh or dried. 
Whson’s Smyrna. Medium large; stalk short; 
skin thin, green with gray bloom; pulp rosy red; 
strong grower, with spreading habit. Like all 
Smyrna types, it requires caprification to set fruit. 
Mission (California Black). The well-known local 
variety; fruit large, dark purple, almost black when 
fully ripe; makes a good dried fig; tree grows to a 
very large size, and bears immense crops. 
Pastiliere. Large; pyriform; stalk short; skin 
wrinkled, dark violet, covered with bloom; very 
firm: pulp violet red, with rich, delicious flavor 
Fine either fresh or preserved. Rather late; tree 
large and spreading, heavy bearer. Dr. Kisen, the 
noted authority on figs, says: “If the writer could 
plant only one blue variety, it certainly would be 
this one." 
Ronde Noire. Large; roundish; greenish vellow, 
covered with dark purple; flesh amber color, fine¬ 
grained, rich and sweet. 
CAPRIFIGS 
.. „ ..aprifigs. Without 
Capri figs the Smyrna Figs cannot he made to bear. 
Consequently a few Caprifigs should always be 
planted at the same time as the Smvrna Figs. 
Later on, ~- 1 ~ ! 
eighteen varieties of Caprifigs imported from Tur 
key. Italy. Africa and Dalmatia; the one from the 
latter place, known as the Mileo, is unsurpassed for 
carrying the wasps. 
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