LUTHER BURBANK 



Years ago it was hunted up in Europe with the 

 plan in view of producing really valuable stone- 

 less plums and prunes. The labor and expense 

 incurred in these experiments have been enor- 

 mous, but among the many thousand varieties, one 

 really good stoneless prune was produced and is 

 here offered for the first time in the history of this 

 earth. 



"The tree is a vigorous, healthy, rapid grower 

 and unusually productive. The fruit is very simi- 

 lar to its civilized parent, the common French 

 prune, in form, size, color and golden, sweet, rich 

 flesh. The stone has been eliminated wholly with 

 the exception of a tiny speck. The fruit is so very 

 valuable and the tree so very productive that I 

 have consented to introduce it this season. It 

 ripens with the common French prune and is in 

 all respects very much like it in size, quality and 

 appearance." 



The French prune is nearly oval but Conquest 

 is slightly more flattened in form, like some of the 

 German prunes. 



FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN PROSPECT 



Among the later seedlings I found some very 

 good fruits which have reverted to the stony type, 

 one of them in particular being extremely large 

 and of sweet, rich, superior quality. 



Thus, after several generations of plums with- 



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