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The importance of Pellier's experiment was not at first y. arre 
A German nurseryman, named B. Kamp, precured some 
Pellier, and also worked for the introduction of the prune. He wa 
of the first to put out prune trees in orchard row. But co diii Voly 
little attention wes paid to prune growing, as a speciality, for a quarter 
of a century after its introduction into the State. 
GnowrH or THE INDUSTRY. 
Probably the = =a of any size in the State is the Bradley 
orchard, on Steven’s Road, about two miles out of San José. 
This was set pots in 1870. The success of this led others to go into 
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Saratoga, followed in 1880-81; in 1881 the Buxton orchard, also at 
Saratoga, was planted, and prune growing and curing on a large scale 
became a fixed fact. 
P Abe that time the growth of the industry has been phenomenal. 
e prune industry has been practically the growth of the past decade, 
for within that period the planting of orchards, their cultivation, and 
the proper care of their product, have grown into a system. In the 
prune centre of Santa Clara county, which 10 years since produced not 
a pound of this fruit, it is now exported by the carloa 
Sania Clara ecunty was from the beginning the centre of the prune 
except the highest mountain counties in the State. In 1870 there 
were but 19, 059 prune trees in the Sinia, while the Assessor’s reports 
for 1886, which are probably 25 per cent. too low, give the number in 
the various counties that year at 1,077,841 trecs. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRUNE. 
The prune is a very hardy tree, and will thrive in a wide range of 
climate and soil and at various elevations SAT rever the greengage 
il 
weathe 
Favouitite habitat, however, is a temperate climate and a warm, generous 
il. grown in the Eastern States, but the short seasons 
there, the numerous pests, and the unfavourable conditions for drying 
which exists, prevent the East from ever entering the field as a com- 
petitor to California in the prune industry. The drying D of the 
prune varies very greatly, owing to the Lather of soil in which it is 
In some localities it wil shrink i thas toa" four to one, 
idence of skin. 
"Phe Prat eis a gross feeder aid wants for its best deve elopment 
the prune, but, as dipiin th its growth have "OA 
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sections have been f. hat furnish all the required conditions, and 
while Santa Clara Sem is — and probably always will be, the 
this indus it is not th 
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