Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-10-07 | Page 4 | The Sugar Prune

THE SUGAR PRUNE. The prune that promises best for tommerclal puriwes In Utah Is known us the sugar prune und le, as jet, quite new lo the fruit men of this State. The sugar prune has been tried III Oregon and reports nre very favorable. The Oregon Agriculturist sns The reports as to Hie sugar prune continue con-tinue favorable to that vurletj It appears ap-pears lo rlrn about two or three weeks earlier than Ihe Italian In Oregon It has given a very full vleld this J ear lu sections In whleh the llallan has failed The fruit Is larger than that of the llallan It is so large that even It It follows lb habit of lis ancestor, the e immon Trench prune In decreasing In else with th- age of th- trees, It will, still b n large prune, plentj large enough for commercial nuriKises It probnbll does not contain ns much sugar In Oregon Ore-gon as reported In Otllfornla, but It Is a decidedly sweet prune Ortgon nurserymen nur-serymen who hsVe been Inclined lo be cautious about taking up the V irletj nd puslilni. It nre becoming satisfied that It Is a good Ihlng There is now enough wood of (his varletv In Oregon to work over n lirge number of trees, and liiere l Utile doubt that thousands of Petite trees, and a good many Italians Ital-ians will be worked over to the guitar prune the mining season It looks like Ihe i-aslent wuv In Kit good sized fruit on Petlle irres Is m lop-work lhcm with the Sugar prune Peril i s the Imperial, of width l)r Sharpies thinks so favor-nblj favor-nblj or some of the oilier larg' la. rletlcs of lhe 1 reneh prune, mm tlo ns will us the sugar III oilier respects but none of tlieni appears to be ns enrlj as lhe Sugar nnd nt the same lime ns targe, sweet and reductive