THE SUGAR PRUNE 



best be propagated by grafting. From a single 

 seedling we may thus develop, in due course, an 

 entire orchard or a series of orchards. 



Such is in practice the method of propagating 

 the sugar prune. It is obvious that plants thus 

 grown partake of the very substance of the 

 original seedling; they are part and parcel of it, 

 and fruit grown from such grafts will be uniform 

 in quality, within the limits of variation that char- 

 acterize the individual specimens of any fixed 

 race. 



When I say that something 

 like seven and a half million 

 seedlings of the plum have 

 passed under my hand and 

 eye in the course of my 

 many series of experiments 

 in the perfection of this 

 fruit, the reader will not 

 wonder that each individual 

 cross has not been recorded. 



