The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . r cent; not of highest quality as a cured prune but sells well;also good for shipping; oval, slightly flattened; dark purple with thick whitebloom; freestone; early. POPULAR PLUMS 325 Imperial Epincuse sj-n. Clairac Mammoth.—Introduced in 1884 by Felix Gil-let and in 1886 by John Rock. Described by Mr. Rock as follows: Uniformlylarge size, reddish or light purple, thin skin, sweet and high flavor. Describedby Mr.
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . r cent; not of highest quality as a cured prune but sells well;also good for shipping; oval, slightly flattened; dark purple with thick whitebloom; freestone; early. POPULAR PLUMS 325 Imperial Epincuse sj-n. Clairac Mammoth.—Introduced in 1884 by Felix Gil-let and in 1886 by John Rock. Described by Mr. Rock as follows: Uniformlylarge size, reddish or light purple, thin skin, sweet and high flavor. Describedby Mr. Gillet: Uniformly large, more oval than the French prune; nearly ofthe same color but somewhat lighter or reddish purple; earlier than the Frenchand with thinner skin. Fruit grown by Mr. Rock analyzed at the State Univer-sity in 1898, showed per cent of sugar against per cent average ofthree analyses of French prune. Largely planted and grafted in, in the SantaClara Valley, as a drying prune but irregular in bearing. There has been quite widely planted another prune called Imperial which isverj inferior in sugar content and likely to nrove much less Robe de Sergeant. Prune dAgen. Prune dAgen; S3n. Petite Prune dAgen; French Prune, etc.—This is thedrying prune at present most widely grown in this State. It is described byJohn Rock as follows: Medium-sized, egg-shaped, violet purple, very sweet,rich, and sugary; very prolific bearer. The first trees of the kind were grownby Louis Pellier, at San Jose, about the year 1857, the graft having been broughtfrom France by his brother in December. 1856. The identity of this variety(which was first largely grown in the neighborhood of San Jose) with the va-riet} chiefly grown in the French district tributary to Agen, was first announcedby W. B. West, of Stockton, in the year 1878, during his visit Robe de Sergeant.—Though this term is given in Downing as a synonym ofprune dAgen, and seems also t
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