Jest read yesterday:
improved brown turkey=san piero=black portugal=masui dauphine
"A variety known as Black Douro or Black Portugal has long been grown in
California, and it has proved to be identical with San Piero. The name indicates that it
might have been secured from their homeland by some Portuguese residents of the
San Francisco Bay region, as suggested by Eisen (1901, p.264). To add still further to the
confusion, this variety is designated by some as Brunswick! Commission merchants in
Los Angeles market the large, fresh figs of San Piero as Brunswick, although most
growers call them Brown Turkey or Black San Pedro. The Thompson, or Thompson
Improved Brown Turkey, is identical with San Piero. The same is true of Granata,
grown by B. R. Amend, Portland, Oregon. The following account is based on trees in
production at Riverside since 1930."
" In Japan, San Piero is grown under the name Masui Dauphine. San Piero trees
have been found in the eastern United States at the following places: Saxis, Hampton
Institute, and Diamond Springs, Virginia; and Accomac and Crisfield, Maryland. At
Crisfield, San Piero is being grown commercially."