Show pollination by wasps saved california figs the california ig fig crop was saved by the action of a fresno lr esno farmer who had laid out a GO acre fis fig orchard and who was unable anable to gutber gather a crop the trees lind had all the appearance of health hut but the lie fruit failed to properly develop george 0 roeding hooding was in this predicament and to solve his difficulty he made a n trip to smyrna ile he found that it was the custom of nf the growers there to gather wormy fruit from the wild tig hg trees and ann hang it among the cultivated trees little wasps wisps from the wormy fruit were essential to pollinate the cultivated orchard lie ite imported iome bome of the wild trees and went through h th ohp same prore procedure dure and th the e effect upon his orchard was magical the result Is that the og fl growing industry Is now an important one |