Archive image from page 34 of A descriptive catalogue of fruit. A descriptive catalogue of fruit and forest trees, vines and shrubs, choice palms and roses . descriptivecatal1903fanc Year: 1903 FANCHER CREEK NURSERIES 31 The Calimyrna Fig, showing habit of growth and cross-section of fruit. Very much reduced. appearances are misleading, for an cutting the fruit open it will be found that it con- tains a large quantity of inconspicious flowers closely grouped around the rind, which is really the receptable for them. Furthermore, there are four distinct kinds of flowers found in the figs, na
Archive image from page 34 of A descriptive catalogue of fruit. A descriptive catalogue of fruit and forest trees, vines and shrubs, choice palms and roses . descriptivecatal1903fanc Year: 1903 FANCHER CREEK NURSERIES 31 The Calimyrna Fig, showing habit of growth and cross-section of fruit. Very much reduced. appearances are misleading, for an cutting the fruit open it will be found that it con- tains a large quantity of inconspicious flowers closely grouped around the rind, which is really the receptable for them. Furthermore, there are four distinct kinds of flowers found in the figs, namely: male, female, gall and mule flowers. In describ- ing the varieties, they will be considered in three classes. First. The Smyrna Figs, which do not mature their fruits, unless their flowers, which are always female, have been ferti- lized from the Wild or Capri fig, either by
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