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tiine there are several varieties art(iail\ m ii.tmi 

 that are of the most admirable qimlit>' aru) vr t 

 wholly ttoneleM. In the ordinary French 

 from three to six per cent mtire fniit is 



stone; while in my stoneless prune called the 

 **Coiiqiiest*' the fragment of stone does not rep* 

 reaent more than a thouatndth part of the bulk 

 or weight nf the fruit 



And among the nine or ten hundred varieties 

 of stoneless pluniji now growing in my orrhard. 

 there are sure to be some that will show still 

 further improvement 



V\ iiv THE Task Was Difficult 



The task of producing a stoneless plum nad 

 proved very didicult chiefly because it had all 

 along been neoeatary to bear in mind a number 

 of quite different objective points. 



T* waa not sufficient to produce a stoneless 

 |iniiii. From the practical standpoint there 

 would be no object in that unless the fniit about 

 the stoneless kernel was of good size and of 

 palatable quality. And, unfortunately, there 

 appeared to be no tendency to correlate stone- 

 lessness with good quality of fniit. 



In point of fact the tendency was quite the 

 other way; and, indeed, this was to be expected 

 in view of the fact that the original partially 



