Figs. Synopsis Of Figs
Description
This section is from the book "The Fruit Manual: Containing The Descriptions And Synonyms Of The Fruits And Fruit Trees Of Great Britain", by Robert Hogg. Also available from Amazon: The Fruit Manual.
Figs. Synopsis Of Figs
I. Fruit, Round, Roundish, Or Turbinate
§ Skin, decidedly dark, * Flesh, red.
Black Bourjassotte
Black Ischia
Mouissoune
Noire d'Espagne
Recousse Noire
** Flesh, white or opaline. Osborn's Prolific.
$ $ Skin, pale, or tinged with brown.
* Flesh, red.
Bellona
Bifère de la Malmaison
Bourdissotte Blanche
Brown Ischia
Courcourelle Brune
De Grasse
De Lipari
Grizzly Bourjassotte
Grosse Montrueuse de Lipari
Malta
Monaco Bianco
Nebian
OEil de Perdrix
Panachée
Poulette
Rose Peyronne
Rougette
Savantine
Verdal
White Bourjassotte
White Ischia
Yellow Ischia
** Flesh, white or opaline.
Angélique Early White
White Marseilles
II. Fruit, Long, Pyriform, Or Obovate
§ Skin, decidedly dark. * Flesh, red.
Bec de Perdrix Black Genoa Black Provence Bordeaux Brown Turkey Col di Signora Nero
Dr. Hogg's Black Gouraud Noir Negro Largo Royal Vineyard Violette Grosse Violette Perruquine
** Flesh, white or opaline. Pied de Boeuf
§ § Skin, pale, or tinged with brown. * Flesh, red.
Célestine
Col di Signora Bianca
Datte
Peau Dure Versailles
** Flesh, white or opaline.
Brunswick Castle Kennedy De l'Archipel d'Or de Baume d'Or de Laura
St. Ursule d'Avignon
Agen (Gros de Draguignan)
Fruit, medium sized, roundish turbinate. Skin, green, with a brownish tinge, but round the crown, which is very flat, it is quite deep brown or chocolate, coloured with a mixture of green; and when fully ripe it cracks in white reticulations. It is covered with a pretty blue bloom. The eye is open, and has a dark brown, or rather reddish brown, iris round the opening. Flesh, of a very dark blood-colour, almost as much so as in the Col de Signora, thick and syrupy; most delicious. One of the finest figs I know. It ripens late.
AngÉLique (Mélitte; Madeleine; Petaluse; Courcourelle Blanche)
Below medium size, about two inches long, and an inch and three-quarters broad; roundish turbinate, and flattened like an onion. Skin, yellow, dotted with long greenish white specks. Flesh, white under the skin, but with a faint tinge of rose towards the centre.
When well ripened, the fruit is of good quality, and perfumed. It forces well, and may be grown against a wall in the open air.
Ashridge Forcing. See Brown Turkey. D'Athènes. See White Marseilles. Aubique Violette. See Bordeaux. Aubiquon. See Bordeaux. Aulique. See Violette Grosse. Barnissotte. See Black Bourjassotte. Bayswater. See Brunswick.
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