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Identifier: catalogue1906fanc (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Fancher Creek Nurseries; Roeding, George Christian, 1868-1928; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Fresno, Calif. : George C. Roeding
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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FANCHER CREEK NURSERIES. 43 escape. The men gathering the figs, dump them into a large pile in some central point in the orchard. They are then taken in hand by another crew, who string the figs on raffia fibre, using a darning needle for piercing the figs. String will serve, but raffia is much softer, cheaper and better. The figs should be pierced in the fleshy part near the stem end. The number to a string is usually ten, the first and end figs will be forwarded by us as soon as the wasps commence to issue from the Marame figs. Application for the wasps should not be made until the caprifig trees are four years old. The figs should be strung up in the same manner as is fol- lowed in suspending the infested figs in the Smyrna trees. Three to four figs in each tree is sufficient for colonizing the insect.
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Cross-Section of the Caprifig Fruit. (Profichi Crop). being held in place by a half hitch. After the figs are strung, they are thrown up into the trees with a dexterous twist, causing the string to wind around a branch. Whenever possible, have the string suspended in a shady spot of the tree. The work is further facilitated on the Roeding Place by hang- ing a wire basket in each tree, which will hold from eight to ten figs. This basket is four inches square, one and one-half inches deep and is made of five-eighths mesh. The basket is suspended by means of light copper or iron wires, which are wound around a branch in a shady part of each tree. Caprifig Trees. These should be planted in a group by themselves in a protected sit- uation in the orchard, or they can be planted around the home as shade trees, being very desirable for this purpose. The figs when they drop dry and shrivel up, and do not make a mess under the tree like the edible figs. For every twenty- five Smyrna figs plant one caprifig tree. Supplying Insects. To all purchasers of Calimyrna Figs, we supply enough in- fested caprifigs for the purpose of coloniz- ing the wasp in their caprifig trees free of charge. Applications for these infested figs should be made in the latter part of March or early in April, when the figs A WORD OF CAUTION Rumors are being constantly circulated, evidently by persons entirely unfamiliar with the subject, that Smyrna figs do not bear like the White Adriatic, all of which is a mistake. The fact of the matter is they bear fully as much and simply because there are apparently not so many figs on the trees does not indicate that the weight is not there when the fruit, is dried. Fully 25 per cent of the White Adriatic are too small to be packed, while of the Smyrna figs the average is from 3 to 5 per cent. A sweat box of Smyrna figs will weigh from 20 to 30 pounds more than a box of the same size containing White Adriatic. Can any intelligent fruit grower afford to raise a fruit which, no matter how pro- cessed, can never be regarded as a first- class article? It is no uncommon thing for 50 to 75 per cent of the Adriatic figs to. sour on the trees before the drying season is half over, while with the Smyrna type such figs are only found after a heavy rain, fall or after the harvesting season is prac- tically closed, when rather unusual cold weather will cause the figs to sour. Today the Adriatic figs are packed and sold not because they appeal to the trade, for they do not. They have absolutely nothing to recommend them to the consum- ing public except that they are cheap, and

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