Fig Varieties: A Monograph - uri=ucce.ucdavis

390 Hilgardia
[Vol. 23, No. 11
Daurada. Described by Risso (1826, as Ficus carica lutea), Sauvaigo (1889), and Eisen
(1901), as a small, globular fig, broad at the apex; color greenish yellow; pulp red.
Grown near Nice, France.
Domestica. Briefly described by Sauvaigo (1889) and Eisen (1901) as a pyriform fig,
with greenish-yellow skin and red pulp.
D’Or de Laura. Description by Eisen (1888, 1901), after that of Hogg (1866). Figs
below medium, oblong; ribs obscure; eye closed; color yellowish green; pulp opaline,
sweet; quality excellent.
Dorée (syns. Figue d’Or, Goutte d’Or). Described by Merlet (1667), Ballon (1692),
Liger (1702), Langley (1728), Société Pomologique de France (1887, 1947), Eisen (1888,
1901), Starnes and Monroe (1907), Juignet (1909), Simonet et al. (1945), and Delbard
(1947). Illustrated in black and white by Starnes and Monroe and by Simonet.
Illustrated in color by Delbard.
Dorée is a French fig, reported by Merlet and other early writers to be subject to
splitting or cracking of the skin, and therefore good only for hog feed; the checked skin
also suggested to them the torn robe of a beggar; in general, however, it is described as
a handsome fig of excellent quality. Starnes found in Georgia that Dorée appeared to
be the same as Magnolia (Brunswick), a report which casts doubt on the identity of the
specimens grown. It is doubtful, moreover, whether the true Dorée has ever fruited in
California, although P.I. No. 18,897 of the Chiswick collection was labeled as that
variety; no trees are now known to occur in collections of varieties. P.I. No. 102,013,
introduced from Morocco in 1933 as Goutte d’Or, was found to be the same as Dottato
at Riverside.
Tree of Dorée produces two crops. Leaves medium to small, 3- to 5-lobed.
Description is after Simonet, from fruit grown at Bagnols-sur-Ceze.
Brebas large, elongated-pyriform, somewhat oblique; length 3-1/4 inches, diameter
2-1/4 inches; average weight 85 grams; neck not distinct, merging gradually with the
body; stalk conical, swollen toward the junction with the fruit, about 1/2 inch long; ribs
not very well marked; eye in a slight depression, large, half open; scales erect, yellow to
rose-colored; skin delicate, yellowish green, becoming golden yellow slightly tinged
with rose on the exposed side; pulp salmon; texture fine; seeds few; quality fair.
Second-crop figs smaller, globular, or short-pyriform; stalk swollen; ribs none; color
same as brebas; pulp light rose. Quality good; excellent for drying.
Douqueira Blanca. Described by Sauvaigo (1889) and Eisen (1901) as a fig
resembling Douqueira Negra (Perroquine), except in color, which is yellowish green;
pulp bright red; excellent as a fresh fruit.
Du Roi. Described by G. S. (1869), Barron (1891), Colby (1894), Shinn (1893, 1903),
Forrer (1894), Eisen (1897, 1901), Price and White (1902, with figure), Starnes (1903),
Starnes and Monroe (1907, with figure), Woodroof and Bailey (1931), and Blin (1942).
Du Roi is a good example of a variety which was once tested and received high
praise, but failed to become established. Very few accounts of it are found in
horticultural publications of England. However, it was included in the ‘Chiswick
collection from that country as P.I. No.18,843, and tested widely by the California