LUTHER BURBANK 



that combined superior qualities of flesh with this 

 desirable characteristic. 



In the opinion of a number of the best known 

 growers, it is the best prune ever produced. The 

 trees are enormous and never-failing bearers, and 

 good, healthy growers, better than the French 

 prune though not as strong as the Sugar. 



Well grown fruits measure nearly six inches 

 around one way by four and a half inches the 

 other. 



On older standard orchard trees the size may 

 average larger than this, and when the crop is not 

 too heavy the fruits are really enormous. 



The skin is purple with a heavy blue bloom; 

 flesh honey-yellow, fine grained, juicy, yet firmer 

 than most drying prunes, and very sweet. The 

 stone, which is free, is only five-eighths of an inch 

 in diameter. 



Standard is without doubt the best combination 

 drying and shipping prune ever produced. It 

 ripens with the French prune in September. It 

 has been kepi fully a month in good condition in 

 a basket in an ordinary living room during our 

 warm fall weather. It can be successfully shipped 

 after it becomes dead ripe, to any part of the 

 United States. 



And the final test as a prune is that when 

 dipped in the ordinary lye solution the skin cracks 



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