Autofertile (parthénocarpique)
Bifère (Figues-fleurs début juillet, figue d’été début août)
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IRA Condit (The Fig)
In many common figs, such as San Piero, Brunswick, and Madeleine, the mature
flowers do not fill the cavity, and the pulp is therefore hollow at the center.
The pulp constitutes about 83 per cent of a mature fig.
Eissen.
Angelique
Courcourelle blanche; Angeliqne blanche; Melette: La Melette (Roz.) according to Duhamel.
Medium, 1 ¾ inch, pyriform, longer than wide, ribs prominent: color yellowish white with long greenish spots. Pulp white, in center fairly rose. Leaves 3-lobed, crenate, lobes pointed, a good fig of fine flavor. Paris and Provence.
Coucourele Brune
Brown Coucourel; Coucourelle Brune (Melette); Ficus fusca Risso; Courcourellos Brunos Provence).—Two crops. First crop largest, 1 ½ by 1 ¾ inches; very early. Second crop: Small or medium, roundish; color of skin deep brown, with a thick blue bloom; stalk variable in size; pulp tender, without flavor, of deep red color, shading to rose. Except for want of flavor, it is a rich fig. Requires dry soils. Common in Provence.
Magdalen
Madeleine; De la Madeleine.—Size below medium to small, about 1 ½ by 1 ½ inches, quite round, or slightly pyriform and obtuse. Ribs distinctly prominent and rough, especially toward the stalk, while diminishing in prominence toward the eye, but entirely disappearing immediately around it.
Stalk longer than one-half the fig eye open, comparatively large, but depressed: scales very small and few o. a pale whitish amber. Skin greenish-yellow or yellow on cheek, greenish in the shade; pulp amber white: meat white. A very delicious little fig. far superior to the lschias and the Celestes. (Fig. 72.)
The above description is taken from fig trees imported from France by Mr. Grillet to California and grown in Santa Clara Valley. They differ from those received by the Royal Horticultural Society of London, as seen below. Dr. Hogg gives Madeleine as synonymous with Angelique. which is erroneous,
Angelique is a distinct fig of larger size, much more flattened, and of the shape of a flat onion.
Madeleine.
De la Madeleine.—Size medium; 2 ½ inches long by 1 ¾ inches wide; pyriform: lopsided. No distinct neck and very small stalk. Ribs shallow, numerous, confluent; eye medium, open; scales large. Skin waxy, cracking, of a yellowish-green color: pulp coarse, rosy amber and pure amber toward stalk end. Vinous and juicy, but not highly flavored. Tree strong grower, with large, coarse, shallow, 3-lobed leaves, about 9 inches long by 8 wide, woolly underneath. This fig was received thus named from the Royal Horticultural Society of Loudon. It is a distinct fig from the true Magdalen.