. Catalogue. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. FANCHER. CREEK. NURSERIES. ,SINCE 1884. THE FIG There is an almost endless list of varieties of figs—yet here in California the real com- mercial sorts are few and are divided into two classes, the Smyrna and Adriatic. The fig will adapt itself to a wider range of soil and climatic conditions than will almost any other deciduous fruit. Figs are used in may ways, for drying, canning, preserving, and of lat
. Catalogue. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. FANCHER. CREEK. NURSERIES. ,SINCE 1884. THE FIG There is an almost endless list of varieties of figs—yet here in California the real com- mercial sorts are few and are divided into two classes, the Smyrna and Adriatic. The fig will adapt itself to a wider range of soil and climatic conditions than will almost any other deciduous fruit. Figs are used in may ways, for drying, canning, preserving, and of late have became very favorably men- tioned as a fresh shipping fruit. This season several car lots have safely reached the east- ern market where they have brought the very highest prices. The secret of the culture of the Smyrna fig was so carefully guarded that it was not until after fourteen years of constant and per- sistent efforts on the part of Mr. George C. Roeding that he succeeded in producing by artificial pollenation, the first Smyrna figs to be matured in the United States, this was in 1890 and it was ten years later before his efforts to establish the Blastophaga grossorum were crowned with success, and that the first Bmyrna figs were produced in a commercial way. The Adriatic fig differs from the Smyrna In that it matures its fruit without the aid of the insect (Blastophaga grossorum) and has less sugar content. CAPRIFICATION One point must not be overlooked, that the edible fig grows on an entirely distinct tree from the Capri fig. The Capri fig serves as a home for the several generations of the wasp and its figs are not edible. The Capri fig produces three distinct crops annually, the first one pushing out on the wood of the pre- ious year's growth in March; the second crop comes on the new wood in July; the third in September. These several crops are designat- ed as follows: Profichi or spring crop; Mam- moni or summer crop; Mamme or overwin- tering crop. The
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