https://www.createspace.com/4760548

Is it any good?

Thanks Aaron, if anyone has this book please let us know how beneficial it is to us fig enthusiasts.

a sneak peak

http://www.amazon.com/Figs-Heritage-Fruit-Cultivars-Volume/dp/1925110125

Thanks Dave

It says that the Black Ischia and Black Provence are the same in the Amazon preview pages.
I thought we established they are the different figs, no?

Do they have the wasp in Au?

It looks like it is about a lot of fruits, not sure why they put the fig on the cover or in the title.

I guess I'll have to look for it at the bookstore and see for myself if it's any good.

hi greenfig
the f4f variety list has always said b/provence
is a syn. for b/ischia

aknowledged (spelling?)  but as we all know figs can be hard to identify, have people
always got what they think they have?  i have got trees from the same cuttings which
are differant.

I got the book today. It is certainly not even close to Pon's book "Les Figueres" but is a distant second in my collection. One thing it has going for it is that I can read it. It's a 7x9" paperback Australian publication. One of 28 books on specific fruits including apples, apricots, lemons, avacodo's, etc. it starts with the history of figs in Australia and lists 112 fig varieties with good descriptions but only about 10% with pictures. They do list places to buy the figs where possible which would be nice if you lived in Australia. I would think that a book like this could certainly be made here I the states with contributions from public and private sources of information such as varieties and especially pictures. I would think a book on figs with 500+ varieties would be possible with just what is available here in the States. I'd give it a 2 out of 5. It was lacking in # of varieties and pictures. Still, not a bad book at all for $30. BTW I give "Les Figueres" a 4 out of 5 because I can't read it. Lol. Where's the English translation version?

Thanks Aaron, this is what I really wanted to know, some member that has reviewed the book, not a book reviewer, to give the fig enthusiast perspective of its content value for us growers. Thanks again.

Well, there you have it.
That's the situation of figs in Australia.
Many varieties are lost and very little information has been recorded.
It's quite a challenge to trace photos and info of those lost varieties if not impossible in some cases.
However, some of us are silly enough to give it a go. Lol

I checked it out on Amazon, and the first thing that I noticed was the pictures that were used without permission. Don't know if Bass has given permission, but images from Figs 4 Fun were used without permission, and some pictures are of different varieties that they were used for.

Much of the text in the descriptions originated from this source http://figs4fun.com/archive/archive021.html

It would appear that there is little original material here.

So if someone did want to use pics from the figs 4 fun variety inventory, who would they need to speak to?
The essay on Aussie fig varieties is written by Bill Hankin and Graeme Brookman, both Australian fig collectors.