. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Arizona. 8 Bulletin 77 Throughout the Sulphur Spring Valley the Mission and White Adriatic are the leading varieties. Old trees bear two crops each year, ripening until the advent of freezing weather. A p^irple fig grown and distributed from Safford also comes in two crops, ripening until the green fruit is destroyed by frost. A fine tree of the black variety is also reported from Tombstone. vSmyrna figs have been planted at Gleeson, and while they endure the winter and set fruit, none matures due to lack of pollination. A small white \'iriety about 10 y
. Bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Arizona. 8 Bulletin 77 Throughout the Sulphur Spring Valley the Mission and White Adriatic are the leading varieties. Old trees bear two crops each year, ripening until the advent of freezing weather. A p^irple fig grown and distributed from Safford also comes in two crops, ripening until the green fruit is destroyed by frost. A fine tree of the black variety is also reported from Tombstone. vSmyrna figs have been planted at Gleeson, and while they endure the winter and set fruit, none matures due to lack of pollination. A small white \'iriety about 10 years of age, located near Willcox, now bears two to three crops each year, producing almost continuously from the last frost in spring to the first frost in autumn. Several large fig trees ire standing in the streets of Fig. .3.—View showing last 40 trees in rows A and B, Fig. 2. Note the poor condition of the trees In row B, also the vacant spaces; and the three weak trees in row A with a second group of healthy plants in the distance. In the Lower Verde River country, at an altitude of 3,315 feet, a small white fig endures the winter, while a black variety grown in the same location freezes to the ground. Two crops are produced each year. Along the Upper Verde River, Angelique (white), San Pedro and Mission (black) bear annually, but usually both the earliest and latest figs of the first and last crops are destroyed by frosts The white variety endures the conditions up to 4,500 feet eleva. tion, while the black sorts .prove less hardy. With protection, plants are easily carried through the winter, even at an elevation of 5,800 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 University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station. Tucson : Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Ariz
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