Re: infor, now figs

In a message dated 06/21/2004 7:16:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jsinger@igc.org writes:
Most likely a Brown Turkey or Mission. Wonderful figs! Not much  
difference between them [Mission is a tad larger; Brown Turkey a tad  
tastier]. Things to remember about figs are, one, the "fruit" are  
really flowers; two, they bloom directly on new wood stems, not spikes,  
When I was growing up in the Florida panhandle many, many years ago, we had a 
large
fig tree in the side yard. I have no idea what kind. I earned my first money 
by picking the figs                         and making fig preserves for a 
neighbor.  This was during WWII sugar rationing.  I provided the                  
 sugar by buying coupons from the woman who mowed our lawn (she had 7 or 8 
children and                   couldn't afford to buy all the sugar she had 
coupons for), and sold the preserves to the neighbor                     for 50 
cents a quart.  I wish I had some of them now!

The downside of this was that I developed an allergy to the fig tree. The sap 
caused a rash similar
to poison ivy.  I remember a miserable summer with rash all over my arms and 
backside.  My 
grandmother treated it with iodine, which just made it much worse.  
Auralie

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