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Description
The original Milco Caprifig tree, Niles, Cal. of sustaining all three Caprifig crops and all three generations of the fertilizing insects.
The first consideration is to secure capri varieties which never fail to carry a good winter ( Mamme ) crop in spite of frosts and adverse conditions. This insures insects for an abundant spring ( Profichi ) crop and must be followed by a good summer ( Mammoni ) crop. As an abundant supply of good caprifigs at the proper season is the ultimate object of the capri plantation, four or Rve of the best kinds should be planted at the rate of two good trees to each acre of Smyrnas. In this list the grower can not be too earnestly urged to include the Milco Caprifig , which has proved itself to be one of the best to carry all the crops of the Caprifig to perfection.
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Milco: (syn. Endrich). See descriptions by Eisen (1901), Roeding (1914), Rixford (1918a), Condit (1920a, 1947); illustrations of tree and fruit by Condit (1920a), and of fruit (1933). According to Eisen, this variety was imported by G. N. Milco from Dalmatia. On the other hand, Rixford states that there is little doubt that it was introduced by W. B. West under the name Verdoni, and later exploited by Milco, whose name it bears. However, this is in conflict with statements by Maslin (1890, page 410) and others that Verdoni is the name under which W. B. West introduced the White Adriatic from Italy. Milco is the oldest and for several decades the most widely distributed Caprifig in California; trees are still found in commercial orchards, but are now seldom propagated or planted.
Trees upright, well branched; terminal buds green; leaves medium, mostly 5-lobed; sinuses medium; base subcordate; surface somewhat glossy, gray green in color; petioles tawny to slightly violet near insertion with blade.
Mamme crop good; figs medium, 1-1/2 inches in diameter, spherical, mostly without neck; ribs inconspicuous; white flecks numerous, commonly tinged with violet; color green; bloom prominent; interior purple. Mamme figs are generally regarded as exceptionally resistant to Frost Damage .
Profichi crop fair to good; figs medium, oblique-spherical to turbinate, mostly without neck; ribs narrow, only slightly elevated; eye in center of a definite depression. surface dull green, with prominent bloom; white flecks large, scattered, fading out at maturity; interior light purple. Season late. (Plate 6.)
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