BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc 
Flowering Trees 
Red Silver Crab 
This new introduction comes to us as another of the marvelous things 
created by Carl Hansen of Brookings, South Dakota. A small tree, very 
hardy, graceful in its lines, with a wonderfully beautiful foliage; a color 
so intense that it is little affected by the summer heat. Most flowering Crabs 
are desirable because of the beauty of the mass of bloom which for a short 
time they have in such profusion, but Red Silver Crab is beautiful from 
early spring until late fall. We have been sending out Red Silver Crab for 
three years now. We always sold it because of its foliage. It was a new 
tree and we were using all the wood we could get for propagating. Last 
year we let two trees stand to blossom 
and to our great surprise we found that 
we had in Red Silver the most beautiful 
flowering Crab we had ever seen, with 
the exception of Bechtel. 
of 
Ornamental 
Crabs 
One blooming size tree 
each of Red Silver, Hopa, 
and Dolgo. 
$3.50 
$4.50 Value 
for . 
Two each of above 
We have bloomed all the hardy flower¬ 
ing Crabs and Red Silver, excepting 
Bechtel, is far and away the most beau¬ 
tiful. 
The tree is dwarfish, we would think 
from present indications, growing to a 
height of from 10 or 12 feet. The foliage 
is a dark purplish red all summer and 
during the blooming season the tree is 
covered with a mass of rich very dark 
red blossoms. Now the color is in no way 
a pink but a real bright dark red. 
We are going to offer a real bargain 
price in our Red Silver trees this spring. 
Blooming size specimen trees, 6 to 7 
ft., $1.50 each; 2 for $2.50. 
BECHTEL’S (Double Flowering Crab). 
Without exception probably the most 
beautiful of all flowering Crabs. A dou¬ 
ble form of the native wild Crab. 
Grows about ten feet high. Hardy. Dur¬ 
ing the blooming season it is covered 
with masses of beautiful, double, pink¬ 
ish lavender flowers that look like pink 
Roses. The perfume is simply exquisite. 2 to 3 ft., 60c, not postpaid. 
HOFA (Hansen). One of the most beautiful of the purely ornamental flow¬ 
ering Crabs. The wood of this tree is a purple red; inner bark still redder. 
The new leaves are red; the flowers, as they appear in great profusion 
over the entire tree, are a deep rose. Coming after the rose-colored bloom, 
the fruit is red all summer long. While the fruit is too small to be of 
value for eating, its bright red makes the tree a beauti¬ 
ful ornament for the yard. Where an extremely hardy 
Crab is wanted, Hopa is absolutely as hardy as the 
Siberian Crab. Hopa is a wonderful companion tree to 
plant with Red Silver. We have some large beautiful 
specimen trees of Hopa to offer this spring. 6 to 7 ft., 
blooming size, each $1.50; 2 for $2.50. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
$7.50 Value 
for . 
$6.75 
Young Red Silver Crab Tree. 
Rose Tree of China. 
BOZiGO. Is the greatest all-around Crab ever intro¬ 
duced. Prof. Hansen, of North Dakota, on one of his 
fruit exploring expeditions to Europe, found this won¬ 
der Crab in Russia and brought it home with him. 
It is a two-purpose Crab. The tree is very ornamental, 
being a beautiful tree in itself and in the spring is 
covered with a world of beautiful, pink-tinged, white 
flowers in such profusion as to almost hide the tree, 
to be followed in late summer and far into the fall 
with an immense crop of brilliant red fruit. The fruit 
is of medium size, long, conical, produced in great 
quantities and dazzling all-over red. Skin is thin, and 
cooks up nicely; flesh is white, crisp, slightly acid. 
Fine to eat, to can or preserve, and wonderful for jelly, 
making a rich, deep red jelly. Strong, specimen bloom¬ 
ing and bearing size trees, 6 ft., $1.50 each; 2 for $2.50. 
Rose Tree of China 
Flowering Plums 
FRUNTJS TRILOBA (Double Flowering Plum). This is 
the shrub often sold under the name of “Rose Tree of 
China.” A most beautiful shrub or small tree, as it 
can be grown in either form. The most beautiful of 
all the flowering trees that is hardy enough for the 
Middle Northwest. Grows into a bush or tree from 
eight to ten feet high. In the early spring, just as 
the leaves start to come, the branches are literally 
loaded with small, very double, roselike flowers an 
inch in diameter; intense pink on the outside, fading 
to the most delicate shell-pink in the center. Probably 
the most striking and desirable of any of our very early 
flowering shrubs in this latitude. We have an unusually 
fine stock of Prunus Triloba this spring. Beautiful 
when planted in clumps of three or more. We have 
six Rose Tree of China plants in a clump just at the 
entrance to our office. And last spring the entire clus¬ 
ter of bushes was absolutely covered with bloom. 
We all thought we had never seen anything as pretty 
before in flowers, and every visitor that saw them 
bought some to take home. We advise everybody who 
wants something extra nice to purchase Rose Tree 
of China. We have grown an extra large stock of Rose 
Tree of China, for this spring’s sales and because of 
this large stock are making very attractive prices. 
Fine, 3 to 4 ft., 50c; 3 for $1.45; 10 for $4.00, prepaid. 
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