Show ole I 1 aortic VA i F facts C t GOOD 00 am A AMERICAN GRO GS WN it t H has haa a B been made Pots possible ihl to and capri bring into 13 sterile smyrna eating tree tre any f prepared by the t 01 0 1 agriculture q it Is not impossible that I 1 th fit try will vill soon produce all needs needa this aliis th e fig statement is 13 il chief ot of tile the bureau made b 0 f plant in ills ind report on th the e smyrna ti ng 9 culture in Cali californian Californi forrill progress pro af I 1 W of the hie ifo so success cc of this been du due e to the fact that 1 the ment lias has deen been able def a to mal capering orchard at loom is from billit I 1 have been distributed fj it growers before tills this distri distribution distribute arranged for many IN small gro smyrna figs beca became me some even lug dug up their orchard relationship bet between th T Neen these tw two etelca atles Is that th the smyrna 0 van w fig fl i utilized by an I 1 insect sect which fer r lives ll 11 the when on amma ii fie caprI fIgs are planted tO boether ether U flie mi rifles do not bear enough fruits fae to airy the cro crop I 1 properly until milli g years after the trees begin seten to IM la for tills reason a young hlf dependent on importing the akia during the first few cw ye py it was to supply tills ils that fig orchard at lorils ans I 1 leased baw the department I 1 fly be new ow bavie of have been brought to IA some bome of them ver very y important in vis mercial smyrna culture many ta sands gands of seedling figs have been fc tributes tri buted to operators cooperators co la in the I 1 growing regions of california artes and texas and some promising ie i varieties tarle ties afave ii ave been originated originate il ty I 1 proper selection of male pollen in the fall of 1917 1017 tin tile og fig insert insect established in some old seed seedling linzo rafig trees lit in brunswick Brunsw lck ga and siz fc then a number of capri fix trees hi h been similarly treated the result that it has been possible to capr and bring into bearing many ster smyrna fig trees growing in tile the sov sol eastern states stales some ot of these tr bear a very high grale grade of fruit pro pra isling asin for use as flesh fluet or i conning canning it is still doubt fill lirt A young smyrna fig trees tree C be easily grown from Cuttin cuttings Cut tio figs can be grown in the south southeast easte united states to advantage in a cs mercial way but it is a matter i much interest inhere A and of some acono significance that many old ster sterile lief t trees in this region are really ompa seedlings approximately half of 0 lb tl trees are smyrna figs and an the oils are varieties |