The Smyrna Fig at Home and Abroad: A Treatise on Practical Smyrna Fig Culture, Together with an Account of the Introduction of the Wild Or Capri Fig, and the Establishment of the Fig Wasp (Blasiophaga Grossorum) in AmericaThe author, 1903 - 87 pages |
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Page 34 - Valley, where the fig district proper is, not over ninety miles long and from a half to three-quarters of a mile wide.
Page 1 - The Smyrna Fig at home and abroad. A treatise on practical Smyrna Fig culture, together with an account of the introduction of the wild or Capri Fig, and the establishment of the Fig Wasp ¡Blastophaga grossorum) in America (with 33 fig.
Page 40 - My impression is that the forces of the trees have been expanded in making wood instead of fruit. Determined to have the best fig in the country, I wrote, in January, 1886, to HK Thurber, of New York, one of the leading importing merchants in the United States, requesting him to obtain for me...
Page 6 - ... portion of the food of the slaves, particularly those employed in agriculture, by whom great quantities were eaten in the fresh state at the periods of fig harvest. In Latin myths the plant plays an important part. Held sacred to Bacchus, it was employed in religious ceremonies ; and the fig tree...
Page 39 - ... article giving the history of the plantation up to 1889 : In the spring of 1885 I bought in San Francisco a box of the largest Smyrna figs I could find, and sowed the seeds in a hotbed, letting the growth remain until 1888, when the trees were planted on a hillside in deep, warm granite soil. They made a wonderful growth, the trunks being from four to six inches in diameter, and the trees ten to fifteen feet high. They have never been irrigated, but have been cultivated. They have borne this...
Page 39 - Convention at Fresno, California, November 5, 1889, and I can not do better than quote those portions of his article giving the history of the plantation up to 1889 : In the spring of 1885 I bought in San Francisco a box of the largest Smyrna figs I could find, and sowed the seeds in a hotbed, letting the growth remain until 1888, when the trees were planted on a hillside in deep, warm granite soil. They made a wonderful growth, the trunks being from four to six inches in diameter, and the trees...
Page 13 - ... Ottoman Empire. The city is well built, partly on level ground and partly on the lower slopes of Mt. Pagus. From the bright blue waters of the gulf, the eye wanders over the harbor crowded with ships of all nations, to the stately line of buildings along the quay, the towers and cupolas of the Christian churches, the tapering minarets, the tall cypresses in the cemeteries, the picturesque ruin that crowns Mt. Pagus, and the more distant hills with their graceful outlines. Giaour ("Infidel") Smyrna,...
Page 77 - With the growth of the larva the gall at the base of the male florets becomes hard, and greatly resembles a seed, turning light brown in color.
Page 77 - The young larva is a delicate little creature curved upon itself and showing no visible segmentation. It takes many days development of the Capri Pig before the larva becomes visible with certainty without the most careful observation under a strong lens. The first sign which indicates that one is watching the larva and not the sap in the gall is the visibility of two brownish spots, which are without doubt the mandibles of the larva. When these...
Page 78 - It seems certain that more than fifty days are given to the larval stage. Oviposition takes two days, or perhaps longer, and the last larval stage with the pupa stage, and what may be termed the immature imago stage, lasts only a few days. All of the long intermediate period is occupied by the immature larval stages unless there should prove to be a prolonged egg state, which is improbable.