ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAPRIFICATION
From Latin caprifīcātiō, from caprifīcāre to pollinate figs by this method, from caprifīcuscaprifig.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPRIFICATION»
Discover the use of
caprification in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
caprification and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set
In contrast to common-type figs, which set fruit parthenocarpically (without
fertilization) the Smyrna- type requires pollination (caprification) for fruit-set. A
third horticultural group of figs, known as caprifigs, is grown in California to
provide pollen ...
Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, 1993
2
Fig
Caprification: Or the Setting of the Fruit
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
2009). Nonetheless, caprification is a procedure that, although developed by
humans, directly involves the wasps, at least the pollinating types. Female figs
that become pollinated by the process of caprification are said by many to be
heartier, ...
Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, 2010
4
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
In opposition to this statement, the celebrated entomologist Olivier, who was for a
considerable time in the Archipelago, affirms that this practice of caprification " n'
est autre chose qu'un tribut que l'homme paye a l'ignorance et aux prejuges ...
5
Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia
especially on those varieties requiring caprification in order to set fruit. See local
authorities for latest recommendations. Botrytis dieback of twigs is checked by
frequent sprays with fungicide #G. Nursery trees should be free of nematodes
and ...
6
History of the British colonies
from one fig-tree to another, are much preferable to others : whence it is that the
figs of Provence, where the practice of caprification is unknown, notwithstanding
the same species of fig-tree is cultivated there as at Malta and in the Levant, are ...
7
History of the British Colonies: In Five Volumes. ...
23G EFFECTS OF CAPRIFICATION, AND But whence arises the necessity of
caprificating these two species of fig-trees more particularly than the others ? It is
certain that the tree of the first species which has produced a great quantity of
large ...
Robert Montgomery Martin, 1835
8
History of the British Colonies: Possessions in Europe
236 EFFECTS OF CAPRIFICATION, AND But whence arises the necessity of
caprificating these two species of fig-trees more particularly than the others ? It is
certain that the tree of the first species which has produced a great quantity of
large ...
Robert Montgomery Martin, 1835
9
Ancient and modern Malta containing a description of Malta ...
Let us now examine what are the reasons for the caprification of the second
species of figs. They are the same as in the former case, though the object of the
operation is different. I have already mentioned the quantity of fruit which this tree
...
Pierre Marie Louis “de” Boisgelin de Kerdu, 1804
10
Dodsley's Annual Register
An account qf the process so much spoken of by the ancients under the name of
Caprification, in which dne species qf Jig-tree ; 'whose fruit never comes to
perfection, is used to make another species bear a most extraordinaiy quantity.
