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We have seen San Filipe estate coffee on the market and sold 
some in our sale last year, but only a small quantity. 
The coffee is good of its kind, and with care and attention in pre- 
paration, curing, &c. nó uld rank and compete ahte with 
Gua and other similar ddsoripiitis (grown on low lying 
ou 
Obss course it does not compare with fine high ^de Vera Paz, but 
would take its place with the bulk of Guatemala gr 
t the present time, owing to — a high bius of values is 
hirci for all grades of mild coffee 
D. Morris, Esq., F.L.S., (Signed) S ach AND PEAT. 
Roya | Gardens, Kew, l 

CCLXXVI.—THE PRUNE INDUSTRY OF CALIFORNIA. 
The production of dried prunes is an important industry in many 
parts of Europe. An account of the curing of the “ French bem a 
superior sort of prune, was communi icated to Kew b MW. 
Colchester-Wemyss, of Westbury Court, S E aN Suum 
b 
prune industry of California, illustrated with coloured plates.* This 
was erem by Mr. Vice-Consul Moore, of San Francisco, and taken 
from the Annual Report of the State Board of Horticulture of the State 
of California. The following extracts, with a reproduction of the plate 
of the Californian prune (Petite — ne d'Agen), are taken "- the report 
as published by the Foreign Office 
INTRODUCTION INTO CALIFORNIA. 
It is to France that California is indebted for this healthful and 
m NN fruit. Louis Pellier, a French sailor, who had visited man 
parts of the world, arrived in San Francisco in 1819, and went to wo: 
in the mines in Tri nity County. He did not succeed well there, and 
finally d to San José early in the fifties. Here he blished a 
soon after induced his brother Pierre, whom he had left 
nursery. 
in France, e join him in California, and the two brothers worked the 
nursery together until the spring of 1856, when Pierre returned to 
France in order to l to whom he was engaged. Combining 
and 
the box of precious cuttings, they made the voyage successfully, cros- 
sing the Isthmus of Panama and arriving in San Francisco in Done 
1856. 
The prune cuttings were procured in the Ville Neuve d’Agen, from 
eee the common Californian prune derives its name of Petit Prune 

* Foreign Office, 1892, Miscellaneous Series. United States. Report (with plates) 
on the Prune Industry of California. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Price 11d. 
