90 LUTHER BURBANK 



and is here offered for the first time in the his- 

 tory of this earth. 



"The tree is a vigorous, healthy, rapid grower 

 and unusually productive. The fruit is very 

 similar to its civilized parent, the common French 

 prune, in form, size, color, and golden, sweet, rict 

 flesh. The stone has been eliminated wholly with 

 the exception of a tiny speck. The fruit is so 

 very valuable and the tree so very productive 

 that I have consented to introduce it this sea- 

 son. It ripens with the common French prune 

 and is in all respects very much like it in size, 

 quality, and appearance." 



The French prune is nearly oval, but Conquest 

 is slightly larger and more flattened in form, 

 like some of the other prunes. 



FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN PROSPECT 



Among the later seedlings I found some very 

 good fruits which have reverted to the stony 

 type, one of them in particular being extremely 

 large and of sweet, rich, superior quality. 



Thus, after several generations of plums with- 

 out stones, those having ordinary stones again 

 appear. There are others, however, that retain 

 the stoneless condition, and are of exceptional 

 size. Every color of the plum now appears in 

 these stoneless hybrids white, pale yellow, 



