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The Sugar Prune

Categories: Fruit Growing

What is the commercial value of the Sugar prune? Is there any other

early ripening variety better than the Sugar?



It is selling very well as a cured prune, and growers in the northern

bay counties especially have done so well that they are extending their

plantings. It is coarser in flesh than the French and generally flatter

in flavor when cooked and thus falls below the ideal of a cured prune,

but it has compensating characters, such as early ripening, with which

no other prune compares. The Sugar is also valuable as a shipping plum

to Eastern markets.



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