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quite atUincd. 1 am not wart that I ihould be 

 orerfileaaed if it had been; one does not really 

 wish to reach the end of a trafl« leanng notUng 

 to ttriye for, no unknown territory to explore. 



It ii a nutter of record that the prune was 

 originally introduced into California by a French 

 tailor named Louis Pellier, who came to San 

 Fraodaco in 1849 with the first horde of gold 



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Failing to make his fortune in the mines, this 

 young man, in association with his brother who 

 had presently joined him, establ^ied a nursery 

 and conducted it with a certain measure of suc- 

 cess until 1850 when one of the brothers returned 

 to France to bring back a bride. He iNtnight 

 also some prune cuttings. And these, not> 

 withstanding the long journey by way of the 

 Isthmus, were still alive when California was 

 reached. 



They were immediately grafted upon plum 

 stock, with entire success. 



The most important of the varieties of prune 

 thus introduced was the common French prune, 

 sometimes known as the pnme d'Agen. The 

 descendants of this stock made up the large prune 

 orchards of California for the ensuing half cen- 

 tury. 



