Description
OEil de Perdrix (Eye of the Partridge, Pheasant Eye). Described by La Brousse (1774), Hogg (1866), G. S. (1869), Barron (1868c, 1891), and Eisen (1888, 1901). Before 1866, this French variety was introduced into England, where it fruited and received the comments of various horticulturists. Barron reported it to be similar to Ischia White in that the tree ''fruited as profusely as a gooseberry bush''; the fruit had a large, prominent eye, and was of second quality. G. S. found the figs to be ''without any peculiar beauty, such as one would expect from the name.''
P.I. No. 18,842 of the Chiswick collection was labeled OEil de Perdrix. Scions of this variety, obtained from the Angleton, Texas, station, produced fruit in 1944 at Riverside. The following short description is from notes taken at Chico and Riverside in comparison with the account of Hogg.
Second-crop figs below medium to small, short-turbinate to oblate; neck short and thick, or none; stalk short; ribs only slightly elevated; eye medium to large, open, scales violet; surface dull; color chestnut brown to mahogany; pulp light strawberry; flavor insipid; quality fair to poor.
Caprified figs larger, with deep-strawberry pulp, rich in flavor; quality good, but figs of no particular value.
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