Condit Monograph

Maslin seedling caprifigs. See accounts by Rixford (1912, 1918a). Seedlings distributed under numbers by the United States Department of Agriculture and given names as follows: No. 70, Bleasdale; No. 144, Mason; No. 147, Loomis; No. 148, Newcastle. These varieties are separately mentioned in this work, in their respective color groups. None have been planted commercially, and trees are now seldom found, or are completely lost. Many show close relationship to Sari Lop (the probable female parent), in having branches with swollen nodes, large, deeply-lobed leaves, and profichi with flattened neck.

Maslin No. 150. An unnamed Maslin seedling, of sufficient merit to warrant inclusion in a commercial planting at Orosi, California.

Tree upright, with branches somewhat swollen at the nodes; terminal buds green. Leaves large, mostly 5-lobed; sinuses rather shallow; base broadly subcordate; petiole thick, of medium length; margins shallowly crenate.

Mamme crop fair; figs large, oblique-turbinate to oblate; neck sometimes flattened; eye in center of a craterlike protrusion; ribs prominent, narrow; color light green, with scattered white flecks; interior white.

Profichi crop good; figs large, onion-shaped; neck prominent, somewhat flattened; ribs slightly elevated; apex broad, not depressed; color green; interior white.