Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — California’s First Prune Tree. [ARTICLE]

California’s First Prune Tree.

The first prune tree was plant^d z iu California in 1870 by a Frcnehinnn. who brought the tree to this country from France. The first orchard—of ten acres—began to yield In 1875.