Twentieth Century Fruits 



A New Prune— The "Standard" 



Years ago I had made the combination of the Tragedy and the Sugar 

 Prune and now have at last (in my opinion and the opinion of a number of 

 the best known growers) the best prune ever produced. The trees are 

 enormous and never-failing bearers, and good, healthy growers. Well 

 grown fruits measure four and a half inches around one way by nearly six 

 inches the long way. Skin purple, with a heavy blue bloom ; flesh amber 

 or honey yellow, fine grained, juicy yet firmer than most other drying 

 prunes, very sweet and a perfect freestone. 



This is without doubt the best combination drying and shipping prune 

 ever grown ; ripens September 1st and has been kept fully a month in good 

 condition in a basket in an ordinary living-room during our warm Pall 

 weather, and can be shipped when dead ripe with success to any part of 

 the United States. And the final test as a prune is that when dipped as 

 usual the result is a big quickly dried prune of better quality than any ever 

 before known. I have no other and know of no other prune which 

 comjpares with this in its wonderful combination of good qualities. 



"It has been tried in a commercial way now, for two years, and its possibilities 

 as a high-grade prune have been established beyond a question of a doubt. ' ' 



Univsrsity of California, College of Agriculture 

 Agr. Experiment Station 

 Berkeley, Calif. 

 Examination of Tragedy X Sugar Prune (The "Standard") sample sent by 

 Luther Burbank, Santa Eosa, California. 



Description by Prof. E. J. Wickson: — Freestone, Pit small, %" x %". Flesh 

 yellowish, melting, fine grained; very juicy and sweet. Skin dark blue — sub-color 

 dark red, medium texture. 



ANALYSIS 



Average 

 The " Standard ' ' French Prune 

 49 . 7 23 . 6 



Average weight in grams 



Number per pound 9-1 19 . 1 



Flesh, per cent 96.5 94.2 



Pit, per cent 3.5 5.8 



Sugar, per cent 18.9 18.5 



(Signed) G. E. COLBT, 



Prof. Chemistry. 



By analysis it will be noticed that it excels the French Prune in every 

 point. (The analysis this season (1911) gave a still greater per cent of 

 sugar and the fruit averaged even larger.) 



Trees,, each $3 ; two, $5 ; ten or over, $2 each. 



For those who have orchards it is generally better to use grafting 

 wood to change unprofitable peach, almond or plum trees (on all of which 

 the "Standard" thrives) ; by this means fruit is produced the second 

 season and samples often the first, and much valuable wood may be pro- 

 duced for the next season 'g, nursery or orchard grafting or sale; many 



