. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 32 CROPS THAT PAY. again taking flight, she finally curls up and dies, heartbroken but not until she and her companions have between t^em pollinaiea female flower in the cavity with the plentiful store of ^°^J^R.^^'^.^ from the caprifig—thereby insuring the development of '^"f^"^,,.-p<,,f„i Thus the presence of the caprifig is essential to «'« success u. cultivation of the Smyrna fig. The caprifig produces th^ee truit crops each year. The Blastophagas which over-winter in a^ ^J^^;^^ from the first


. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 32 CROPS THAT PAY. again taking flight, she finally curls up and dies, heartbroken but not until she and her companions have between t^em pollinaiea female flower in the cavity with the plentiful store of ^°^J^R.^^'^.^ from the caprifig—thereby insuring the development of '^"f^"^,,.-p<,,f„i Thus the presence of the caprifig is essential to «'« success u. cultivation of the Smyrna fig. The caprifig produces th^ee truit crops each year. The Blastophagas which over-winter in a^ ^J^^;^^ from the first crop find their entrance into the cavity of the bmyrna fig timed to a nicety and just when the pistillate flowers '"."6 are in the right state to receive the pollen with which the bodies ot tne visitors are covered. In the Smyrna district and elsewhere hg grow- ers at the proper season cut figs from neighboring caprifig trees ana hang them in the branches of the Smyrna fees whose fruit me deceived Blastophagas at once enter and fructify. Hence the bemitic. CAPRIFICATION YEARBOOK FOR 1900, DIVISION ENTOMOLOGY . DEPT. AG'L. name "fig,'' which means "the tree near which another tree is planted or joined," referring to the act of caprification, as described. It is estimated that about 400 females breed in a single caprifig and that from 50 to 100 figs per tree are needed to pollinate the crop. Seed of caprificated Smyrna figs, even when dried, will grow and produce new varieties. From this source it is reasonably certain came all of the many varieties of our Southern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dygert, Henry Arthur, 1856-. Philadelphia : H. A. Dygert


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