NEW CREATION IN FRUITS. 



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interesting trees of dwarf habit bearing profusely of good fruit 

 which varies greatly in size and quality. Two of my hybrids 

 with the Wolf plum are now offered as being worthy of trial in 

 the south, since they ripen after all other plums are gone but yet 

 early enough to escape frost year after year. I judge these new 

 plums should not go much north of Brookings, as they may not 

 ripen. But for the southern part of the state they are worthy 

 of trial as a distinct new departure in plums. The names are 

 given in honor of old Indian tribes in the Sand plum region. 



Kiowa Plum : Offered for the first time. Pedigree : Prunus 

 Watsoni x Wolf plum pollen. The color is a pleasing bright dark 



Kaw plum. 



red with firm skin with fine white dots and white bloom and 

 peculiar crisp texture of yellow flesh. The quality is pleasing to 

 all who have tried it. 



Kaw Plum : Offered for the first time. Pedigree : Prunus 

 Watsoni x Wolf plum pollen. 



The Kaw and Kiowa were introduced in spring of 1917. 



The Moscow Cherry : The prairie Northwest greatly needs 

 a hardy cherry. In the course of my five tours to Russia I be- 

 came greatly interested in the cherry grown in the Vladimir 

 region of Russia just east of Moscow. The fruit comes to the 

 markets of Moscow in immense quantities. Near Moscow, on the 

 Sparrow Hills, where Napoleon stood in 1812, there are some in- 

 teresting orchards of these cherries which I visited in 1894 and 

 1897. These cherries are grown mostly from root sprouts and 

 seeds. The type, however, is not as constant as was thought at 

 first but varies considerably. Out of a lot of my imported seed- 

 lings I have selected one and named it Moscow, which were sent 



