I saw this in an old post and thought some may like to read it. I don't remember who posted it originally , nor could I fine the post again to bump it , so here's the link:

  http://www.archive.org/stream/kadotafigtreatis00clarrich#page/n1/mode/2up

OMG Pattee, that's awesome. I only read a small bit of it but I will read it, it's intertainment as well as educational.
Thank you for sharing it.

I hope they return the book to the library. 
looks like a huge fine if not :)
thanks .

Hey, that was an expensive book....one dollar postage paid...haha

Tami at least at those days it was easier to smuggle cuttings in socks etc..

YVW. I haven't had the time as yet read it . I just started , I want to read it through myself. 

Eli , I bet it would be a small fortune !!

Back then a dollar was a lot !! I'm guessing that was how so many varieties made it here - in socks !!

information is getting cheaper by the seconds these days

Thanks for posting this Pattee.

Yes, thanks for the link, Pattee.

It's funny they were still putting quarters next to the figs in their pictures even back in 1920.  

Is Kadota really this amazing of a fig as the author describes it?  There are pictures of huge trees with thick trunks that the captions say are only 5 years old.  Is it just that if you're in California all fig trees grow that fast?

Yeap! We basically live in a paradise of fast growing fig trees :D


[QUOTE=thearabicstudent]It's funny they were still putting quarters next to the figs in their pictures even back in 1920.  

Is Kadota really this amazing of a fig as the author describes it?  There are pictures of huge trees with thick trunks that the captions say are only 5 years old.  Is it just that if you're in California all fig trees grow that fast?[/QUOTE]

Pattee,
Thanks for posting this book link. I downloaded a PDF copy from the site and just quickly flipped through. Most of the cultural information is still relevant, including several recommendations for increased lime (Calcium) in the soil.
[QUOTE]Lime is pre-eminently a requisite for heavy, meaty, rich figs, and all
hard-pans are heavily impregnated with lime, and more or less so with potash,
sulphur and iron, all of which go to make a soil favorable for fig production.
A deficiency of lime in any soil will, cause a fruit to be produced that dries
into a hollow shell of seeds and little meat. We have all seen that kind of
dried fruit.
Air and water will cause hard-pan to disintegrate, thus liberating these
above named values. The tree itself may flourish in any soil deficient in lime,
potash, sulphur and iron, yet the product of the tree will be poor. Again,
hard-pan land when blasted conserves moisture below the pan, as summer
heat cannot evaporate the moistures invariably found beneath, and the tree
will eventually push its roots downward and laterally, thus securing required
moisture at all seasons.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=thearabicstudent]It's funny they were still putting quarters next to the figs in their pictures even back in 1920.  

Is Kadota really this amazing of a fig as the author describes it?  There are pictures of huge trees with thick trunks that the captions say are only 5 years old.  Is it just that if you're in California all fig trees grow that fast?[/QUOTE]

Except they were silver dollars back then , not quarters  :-))