LUTHER BURBANK 



Mr. B. M. LeLong, secretary of the California 

 State Board of Horticulture, as follows: 



"The sugar prune is an extremely early prune, 

 ripening August 1st; it grows superbly with yellow 

 flesh, tender, and rich in sugar. The skin is very 

 delicate, at first of a light purple tinted with green, 

 changing at maturity to dark purple, covered with 

 a thick white bloom. The form is ovoid, slightly 

 flattened, measuring five by six and a half inches 

 in circumference, average size fifteen to a pound, 

 which is two or three times larger than the French 

 prune; the fruit stock is short, and severs very 

 easily from the stem as the fruit reaches maturity; 

 the pit is of medium size, flattened, slightly 

 wrinkled and most often separated from the flesh; 

 the skin is so thin or porous that the fruit begins 

 to shrink on the tree as soon as ripe." 



To add to the value of the sugar prune, the 

 tree on which it grows is unusually vigorous and 

 very productive. 



Analysis of the fresh fruit at the State Univer- 

 sity discloses the fact that it is nearly one-fourth 

 sugar — the exact amount being 23.92 per cent., 

 contrasted with the 18.53 per cent, sugar content 

 of the French prune, and the 15.33 per cent, of 

 prunes in general. 



Not only does the sugar prune contain far more 

 sugar than any of the varieties from which it 



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