Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — DEVELOPS A ‘PERFECT PRUNE’ [ARTICLE]

DEVELOPS A ‘PERFECT PRUNE’

Prof. Detjen Evolves New Variety of Fruit From Domestic Variety of Plum. Wilmington, Del. —The “perfect prune” is soon to be grown in America, Prof. L. R. Detjen of Delaware college announced in an address before the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Peninsula Horticultural society. Describing his super-prune, which is to be evolved from a domestic plum, Professor Detjen said it would be the first time an American variety had been adapted to prune purposes, the output hitherto having been grown from European varieties. Professor Detjen explained that his plum, while of no commercial value now, will be carefully bred until it becomes the ancestor of an American prune aristocracy which, he said, will be the “breeding stock for a new and hardier race of prunes for eastern America."