Re: More on figs and strange sex
and after reading that, without stop, to my 1st grade son and husband,
of which my son shows a great deal more attention, I gasp, only to catch
my breath and utter
"Wow, Don."
But now, Spouse is showing signs of life...he want to know WHY the figs
of his childhhood, which were brought as cuttings from Italy by his
mother and her family (and being good Italianos, EVERYONE of Juliano
ancestry thus grew this selfsame fig) all ripened? He grumbles that
they feasted on figs all summer.
And even I grew a Lattarula fig in the backyard greenhouse which
produced a few ripened figs. That was the year I had whitefly infesting
300 Martha Washington geraniums. There was so much insecticide sprayed
inside that greenhouse that I doubt any tiny wasp could have survived
the 6 foot trek inside the door to dally with my fig. Of the three figs
that ripened, I opened one and touched my tongue to the flesh, solely
because I've never tasted a ripe fig. Then I spat out all available
saliva and followed by brushing, flossing, gargling and sanitizing my
mouth, all the while praying that a genetic mutation wouldn't occur for
the folly of tasting a pesticide saturated fig.
> Most caprifigs are not edible and are grown solely to
> >aid in this pollinizing process. Flowers of edible figs product no
> >pollen, the reason why caprification becomes so important in commercial
> >fig production.
> >
> >Adapted from Wyman Gardening Encyclopedia, 2nd edition.
>
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> d*@post.its.mcw.edu
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