The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . Rixford Fig showing the Gum Original Rixford Fig Tree at Loomis. THE GUM DROP FIG 397 There are many undetermined varieties of the fig grown hereand there in the State. Some may be finally identified, others maybe new. Some of them yield an excellent dried fruit and should bemore carefully experimented with. During the last decade there hasbeen a marked decline in interest in the fig because of the failure
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . Rixford Fig showing the Gum Original Rixford Fig Tree at Loomis. THE GUM DROP FIG 397 There are many undetermined varieties of the fig grown hereand there in the State. Some may be finally identified, others maybe new. Some of them yield an excellent dried fruit and should bemore carefully experimented with. During the last decade there hasbeen a marked decline in interest in the fig because of the failure tosecure the Smyrna type in the dried fruit and because so many varietiessoured before drying. The outlook seems to rest upon successfulcaprification, although recently there has been increased success inprofitable drying of other varieties. CHAPTER XXXITHE OLIVE AND ITS GROWTH IN CALIFORNIA The olive is another of the old mission fruits and though thetree and its products have been constantly under discussion since theAmerican occupation, and though experimentation has been constant,it was not until 1885 that the tide of popular favor turned stronglytoward the olive. For twelve years thereafter planting proce
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