Samson Information
Samson
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Description
(syn. Markarian No. 1) See description by Condit (1920a, 1947) and illustration by him (1920a). Original California tree is on the Stanford ranch, Vina; introduced from Asia Minor by the Bulletin Company, San Francisco, 1882; propagated and distributed by W. H. Samson, Corning, as Capri No.5, and described by him in 1906 as a very compact grower and productive of all three crops; later distributed by Henry Markarian, Fresno, as Markarian No.1; large trees commonly found in commercial fig plantings.Tree moderately vigorous, exceptionally dense or much branched; trunks of older trees characteristically furrowed or creased; terminal buds green; leaves medium, 5-lobed, sometimes with additional basal lobes; sinuses of moderate depth; base cordate; margins crenate; surface somewhat glossy. Mamme crop fair; figs medium, oblique-turbinate, with short neck and stalk; ribs fairly prominent; color green, with numerous and conspicuous white flecks; interior deep purple. Profichi crop fair; figs medium to large, turbinate, with neck prominent and thick or sometimes tapering and up to 1/2 inch long; ribs moderately prominent; white flecks large, and very conspicuous on immature fruit; color light green; bloom prominent; interior violet-purple; stamens generally good but sometimes rusty and unproductive of pollen. Midseason. (Plate 6.) Profichi are invariably affected by a virus which causes some of the young figs to become malformed and to drop, or to be blemished with mosaic spots in the form of a ring or crescent. See Condit (1920a, fig. 12), and Condit and Horne (1943).
Condit Monograph
Samson: (syn. Markarian No. 1). See description by Condit (1920a, 1947) and illustration by him (1920a). Original California tree is on the Stanford ranch, Vina; introduced from Asia Minor by the Bulletin Company, San Francisco, 1882; propagated and distributed by W. H. Samson, Corning, as Capri No.5, and described by him in 1906 as a very compact grower and productive of all three crops; later distributed by Henry Markarian, Fresno, as Markarian No.1; large trees commonly found in commercial fig plantings.
Tree moderately vigorous, exceptionally dense or much branched; trunks of older trees characteristically furrowed or creased; terminal buds green; leaves medium, 5-lobed, sometimes with additional basal lobes; sinuses of moderate depth; base cordate; margins crenate; surface somewhat glossy.
Mamme crop fair; figs medium, oblique-turbinate, with short neck and stalk; ribs fairly prominent; color green, with numerous and conspicuous white flecks; interior deep purple.
Profichi crop fair; figs medium to large, turbinate, with neck prominent and thick or sometimes tapering and up to 1/2 inch long; ribs moderately prominent; white flecks large, and very conspicuous on immature fruit; color light green; bloom prominent; interior violet-purple; stamens generally good but sometimes rusty and unproductive of pollen. Midseason. Profichi are invariably affected by a virus which causes some of the young figs to become malformed and to drop, or to be blemished with mosaic spots in the form of a ring or crescent. See Condit (1920a, fig. 12), and Condit and Horne (1943).
