. California prune industry. History and importance of the prune industry, methods of cultivation, varieties, picking, curing, packing, and production. Prune industry; Fruit-culture. Fruit medium oblong; the skin is tough, tasteless, easily removed; color violet, with golden spots on the sunny side; covered with a whitish silver bloom, and spotted all over with light yellow dots; sometimes it is covered with marks and liver-spots. The meat is greenish yellow, varying to light yellow, tender, and finely grained, very juicy and sweet. The tree is a vigorous grower, and wants warm climate. The bi
. California prune industry. History and importance of the prune industry, methods of cultivation, varieties, picking, curing, packing, and production. Prune industry; Fruit-culture. Fruit medium oblong; the skin is tough, tasteless, easily removed; color violet, with golden spots on the sunny side; covered with a whitish silver bloom, and spotted all over with light yellow dots; sometimes it is covered with marks and liver-spots. The meat is greenish yellow, varying to light yellow, tender, and finely grained, very juicy and sweet. The tree is a vigorous grower, and wants warm climate. The big limbs at the upper ends are very crooked; violet-brown color, underside green- ish. The leaves are large, egg-shaped. A freestone. Fig. 6. Oval, narrower towards the The skin is thick and easily removed; color violet-brown, sometimes violet-blue. Little gray dots are very numerous. The bloom is light blue. The meat is of a beautiful yellow color, consistent. A freestone; very juicy, with a very agreeable sweet and slightly acid Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. State Board of Horticulture; Lelong, Byron Martin, 1856-1901. [from old catalog]. Sacramento, A. J. Johnston, supt. state printing
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