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CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



Splendor. Burbank seedling; medium sixe but larger than French prune; 

 clear red, drying dark, does not shake from the tree ; earlier than French prune. 



Sugar. Burbank seedling, introduced in 1898; large and sweet; sugar in 

 fresh fruit 23.92 per cent; not a good prune but valuable for shipping; oval, 

 slightly flattened; dark purple with thick white bloom; freestone. 



> Imperial Epineuse syn. Chirac Mammoth. Introduced in 1884 by Felix 

 Gillet and in 1886 by John Rock. Described by Mr. Rock as follows: "Uni- 

 formly large size, reddish or light purple, thin skin, sweet and high flavor." 

 Described by Mr. Gillet : "Uniformly large, more oval than the French 

 prune ; nearly of the same color but somewhat lighter or reddish purple ; earlier 

 than the French and with thinner skin." Fruit grown by Mr. Rock analyzed 

 at the State University in 1898, showed 20.4 per cent of sugar against 18.53 

 per cent average of three analyses of French prune. Largely planted and 

 grafted in, in the Santa Clara Valley, as a drying prune but irregular in 

 bearing. 



There has been quite widely planted another prune called Imperial which 

 is very inferior in sugar content and likely to prove much less satisfactory. 



Robe de Sergeant. 



Prune d'Agen. 



J Prune d' Agen; syn. Petite Prune d' A gen; French Prune, etc. This is 

 the drying prune at present most widely grown in this State. It is described 

 by John Rock as follows : "Medium-sized, egg-shaped, violet purple, very 

 sweet, rich and sugary; very prolific bearer." The first trees of the kind 

 were grown by Louis Pellier, at San Jose, about the year 1857, the graft 

 having been brought from France by his brother in December, 1856. The 

 identity of this variety (which was first largely grown in the neighborhood 

 of San Jose) with the variety chiefly grown in the French district tributary 

 to Agen, was first announced by W. B. West, of Stockton, in the year 1878, 

 during his visit to France. 



Robe de Sergeant. Though this term is given in Downing as a synonym 

 of Prune d'Agen, and seems also to be in French a synonym for the d'Fnte 



