LUTHER BURBANK 



Pond's seedling, and in California often called the 

 Hungarian prune. The little French prune was 

 selected as the parent tree and many thousands of 

 blossoms were pollenated from the Hungarian. 

 This was in 1885. 



Four years later, at the meeting of the Califor- 

 nia State Horticultural Society, I had the pleasure 

 of exhibiting fruit of seventy different varieties of 

 these crossbreed seedlings. 



During the next winter a purchaser of the 

 commercial part of my nurseries, being ignorant 

 of the value of these crossbreed prunes, destroyed 

 sixty or more of them. Fortunately, however, 

 cions from several of the most promising had 

 been grafted on older trees. 



Among these selected grafts were two that gave 

 much promise. These were advertised in New 

 Creations of 1893. 



THE GIANT PRUNE 



In 1895 one of the new prunes was introduced 

 as the Giant. It was so well received that four 

 years later it was placed on the lists of fruits 

 recognized by the American Pomological Society. 



The Giant is a well balanced cross between its 

 two parents the French prune (d'Agen) and the 

 Hungarian. Fruits average 1% to 2 ounces each 

 and are of a sweeter and finer texture than the 

 Hungarian but not so firm and sugary as the prune 



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