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absolutely impossible to produce trees in eight 

 months, and he was very anxious to get a prune 

 orchard at once. By systematic and energetic 

 work we were able to meet his exceptional needs. 

 Never before or since, I believe, was a 200-acre 

 orchard developed in a single season. 



Success at Last 



As suggested, the feat of producing the 

 twenty thousand prunes served to advertise this 

 work locally. Meantime the reputation for 

 dependableness of the Santa Rose nursery 

 products had been greatly extending, in a 

 very modest way to be sure, yet with cumu- 

 lative effect. 



Also the general knowledge that prunes con- 

 stituted a profitable crop was spreading, and 

 about this time the demand for prune trees be- 

 came very great. Naturally my reputation as a 

 producer of prune stock was enhanced by the 

 demonstration given with the twenty thousand 

 young trees. Prunes that had been grown in 

 smaller lots gave equal satisfaction to purchasers 

 in various regions. Great pains had been taken 

 that no tree should leave the nursery that was not 

 exactly true to name, and in all respects precisely 

 as represented. And now I began to reap the 

 benefits. 



