In my yard LW is sweet, still the fig my Mom asks for every year. She was a little depressed when both were killed to the ground. They sprung back nicely, about 9 feet tall and will provide some figs.

Yours seem to have short necks. Of course that neck was an exception, they have long necks but usually not that long.

I stumbled upon Lyndhurst White (named after Lyndhurst NJ) next to a 7/11 two blocks from my house about 12-13 years ago. The owner was a very old Italian guy with a huge garden, grapes, tomatoes, eggplants squash etc. He had a communication problem so I was unable to get much from him. His son in law told me the original tree was from Lyndhurst but was long gone. He also mentioned as he walked away, “The key to this fig was pruning”. He never explained and I never saw them again. That winter the tree was left uncovered (it was covered the previous winter) and the following spring there was no garden.  Soon the house went up for sale and the tree disappeared.

His tree was trained to the side. A single trunk about 8 inches thick, about 10 - 12 feet long. The top was cut and about 6 – 7 feet off the ground. He would trim all the branches off at about 1 – 2 feet long. The new growth would cascade down like a waterfall and then go back up. It consumed a lot of room in his yard. Some of his figs were the size of my fist. I’ve been unable to grow them that big.

I grow mine as a bush. I have a small sun challenged yard and could never train LW like he did and use so much room. I covered the first 3-4 years. This past winter both LW’s were killed to the ground. This was the first major damage in about 5 years. LW is sometimes too vigorous for its own good. It tends to shoot branches out from everywhere. First couple of years I got some splits. Can’t remember the last time it split.

Don’t laugh at the artwork but this is kinda how he trained his fig

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/KKfromNJ/99%20LW/LW.jpg~original