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appearance, iinequaled size and rare keeping qualities will, without doubt, place 

 it at once among or above the best market and shipping prunes. 



Stock on hand : Eight bearing trees and numerous grafts. Price for stock 

 and control, $1,500. 



*' The California State Horticultural Society met Friday. August 31st, at the rooms of 

 the State Board of Horticulture. The meeting was rendered specially interesting by 

 exhibits of Prune seedlings by Luther Burbank. There were seedlings of the French Prure 

 of which he has ripened over seventy this year. There was an almost infinite variety in 

 form, size and color — j^olden, yellow, almost to black ; size from a pigeon's egg to a large 

 hen's egg ; various oblong forms to nearly round. The secretary said he had kept the sam- 

 ples in a close box for about three weeks, and evidently some of the seedlings had fine 

 keeping qualities." — Pacific Rural Press. 



Also described in Prof. E. J. Wicksou's "California Fruits, and How to Grow Them," 

 the accepted authority, and the best, most thoroughly practical, complete and exact work 

 published, and one which every fruit-grower should have. 



" The cross between Pond's seedling and Petite I find a beautiful Prune of excellent 

 flavor and should be profitable for shipping. I shall be pleased if, when you have trees to 

 dispose of, you would put me on your list of those to be notified, as I shall want some of 

 them. A. T. Hatch, 



" Flood Building, San Francisco, California." 



(Probably the largest fruit-grower on earth.) 



Petite Prune. 



Cross-bred Prune A P.— 318. 



Cross-bred Prune. 



A. F.-818. 5 ^OjLnoUv ( 



Another magnificent Prune raised from a seed of the Prune d'Agen: pollen 

 of Hungarian Prune. The trees are perfection in growth and productiveness, 

 and though having somewhat the general appearance of the Petite d'Agen 

 yet the branches are more sturdy, and with very little pruning naturally 

 assume a uniform appearance much superior to either parent. 



The form, size, and general appearance of the fruit is well shown in the 

 accompanying photograph ; the color is like Petite d'Agen, and it has the same 

 firm, rich, sugary flesh, ripens a full week earlier, and being three or four times 

 larger and a perfect natural freestone will perhaps supplant that grand, long 

 known, and extensively grown variety, and change the whole Prune industry of 

 the world. As a combined drying, shipping, market and table variety it has 

 no rival. 



Stock on hand : Three large trees, ten small ones, and numerous grafts. 

 Price of all stock and control, $3,000 ; half of stock and half control, $2,000. 



