The Forkner fig-gardens recipes; how to serve figs in the home . .J-. Fresno County, California, Palms THE J. C. FORKNER FIG GARDENS RECIPES FRUITAGE SHOWNIN PLANTINGS OFTHE MISSION FATHERS— The dried fig of commerce is one of thefirst and most favored of the fruits spokenof in the history of civilization, the fruitfirst produced around Jerusalem andDamascus. There are but a few favored sectionsalong the Mediterranean Ocean where thefig of commerce can thrive. No othersection in all the world has been dis-covered, for thousands of years, wherethis fig of commerce can be grownproperly—excep
The Forkner fig-gardens recipes; how to serve figs in the home . .J-. Fresno County, California, Palms THE J. C. FORKNER FIG GARDENS RECIPES FRUITAGE SHOWNIN PLANTINGS OFTHE MISSION FATHERS— The dried fig of commerce is one of thefirst and most favored of the fruits spokenof in the history of civilization, the fruitfirst produced around Jerusalem andDamascus. There are but a few favored sectionsalong the Mediterranean Ocean where thefig of commerce can thrive. No othersection in all the world has been dis-covered, for thousands of years, wherethis fig of commerce can be grownproperly—except in the San Joaquin andthe Sacramento Valleys of Central Cali-fornia. The findings of forty years, years ofpatient endeavor and of exhaustive ex-periments, have determined that this west-coast section, in soil and in climate,peculiarly favors the fig that has madefamous the far-away Valley of Maeander,Asia Minor. Moreover, the history of the fig in Cali-fornia is fraught with interest, and has todo with the sacrificial wanderings of theFranciscan Fathers, who travjcforknerfiggard00fork
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