Ira J. Condit

Ira Judson Condit (1883–1981) was an American horticulturist who studied subtropical fruits, including the fig, the olive, and the avocado.

Ira J. Condit was born November 18, 1883, in Jersey, Ohio, and graduated from Granville High School in 1900.

After leaving college Condit spent a year in Washington, D.C., at the Division of Entomology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

He began to study subtropical fruit, subsequently publishing research reports on cultivation of the avocado (1915), carob (1919), oriental persimmon (1919), and loquat (1915).

In 1923, the growers association sent him to Europe to learn about the fig industries of Algeria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal.

The edible fig was one of the important objects of Ira Condit's research.