THE SUGAR PRUNE 



But unfortunately it had one single peculiarity 

 that placed it at a disadvantage; namely, the 

 propensity of the fruit to cling to the tree when 

 ripe. 



It dries into a first class sweet prune, but it 

 dries on the tree, and that is an insuperable defect, 

 because the prune grower demands that the fruit 

 shall fall naturally to the ground. He does not 

 wish to be obliged to take the trouble even to 

 shake the tree. 



So the unfortunate propensity of the new 

 prune to hold to its moorings, so to speak, greatly 

 marred its value. 



At Last, a Superlative Prune 



In the year 1899, however, after almost twenty 

 years of continuous and laborious eifort, I was 

 finally able to present a prune which met the 

 expectations of the most sanguine; a prune which 

 combined all the good qualities of its progenitors 

 and combined them in superlative degree, and 

 which, in addition, had the peculiarly desirable 

 quality of ripening about the first of August, three 

 or four weeks in advance of the usual period of 

 the prune harvest. 



This almost perfect prune was placed on the 

 market in 1899 under the name of the Sugar 

 Prune. 



A description of the new fruit was given by 



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