LUTHER BURBANK 



The advantages of the stoneless prune are too 

 obvious to require elucidation. 



To be sure, the new prune is not yet absolutely 

 stoneless. A small speck still persists in prunes of 

 best quality. It has been no great trouble to 

 eliminate the stone in a poor fruit; to combine 

 stonelessness with good quality of fruit has been 

 extremely difficult. But continued selection will 

 finally produce a prune of this kind which has the 

 quality of the best French prunes, together with 

 entire stonelessness. 



BY WAY OF SUMMARY 



Such, then, are the four Burbank prunes that 

 are the pick of all those that have been developed 

 on my experiment farms. 



The methods used in their production are 

 similar to those used in the development of the 

 four best Burbank plums as told in an earlier 

 chapter. The distinctive qualities of the four 

 prunes themselves may be summarized thus : 



The Splendor prune is large, productive, has 

 high sugar content, has a small freestone and 

 ripens early, yet has the fault of clinging to the 

 tree. 



The Sugar prune is large, productive, very 

 early, superior in tree form, an especially good 

 curer, and is both a sure bearer and a sure seller. 



The Standard prune has most superior quality 



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