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TWENTIETH CENTURY FRUITS 
A New Prune— The " Standard" 
This is without doubt the best combination drying and shipping prune 
ever grown; ripens September 1st and lias been kept fully a month in 
good condition in a basket in an ordinary living-room during our warm 
Fall 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 compares with this in its wonderful combination of good 
qualities. 
Description by Prof. E. J. Wickson: Freestone, Pit smalt, %"x%". Ftesh yel- 
lowish, melting, fine grained; very juicy and sweet. Skin dark blue — sub-color 
dark red, medium texture. 
ANALYSIS 
The Average 
"Standard" French Prune 
Average weight in grams 49.7 23. 6 
Number per pound !).l 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. Colby, 
Professor Chemistry Stale University. 
By analysis it will be noticed that it excels the French Prune in every 
point. (The analysis this season gave a still greater per cent of sugar 
and the fruit averaged even larger.) 
Trees, one year, 60c; three, $1.50; ten, $3. 
"Perfect in shape and color, as well as all that could be desired in size, it is 
rightly named 'Standard'." — J. T. G., Morgan Hill, Gal. 
"The best prune when cooked that I ever tasted." — Judge S. F. L., San Jose, Gal. 
"This prune (the 'Standard') is truly delicious. I have never eaten anything 
more delicious in my life." — J. L. N., Menlo Park, Gal. 
New Stoneless Prune— The "Conquest" 
There has been known for several hundred years a wild plum, an 
unproductive thorny bush, which bore insignificant acrid, bitter, wild 
berry-like fruits with only half or two-thirds of a stone. Years ago 
we had this hunted up in Europe with the plan in view of producing 
really stoneless plums and prunes. The labor and expense incurred 
in these experiments have been enormous, but among thousands of 
seedlings, one really good stoneless prune was produced and is here 
offered for the first time in the history of this earth. 
