BRAND’S FRUITS 
The ANOKA Apple 
A Dwarf Apple for the Family Garden 
A Four-Year-Old Anoka Apple Tree. 
This is a natural dwarf apple tree. Most of the Dwarf 
Apples offered in commerce are produced by grafting or 
budding the standard apple of the variety desired onto 
certain kinds of roots that act as a check on the growth 
of the top to dwarf it. This is not desirable. With the 
Anoka, this is different. It is a dwarf in itself and pro¬ 
duces a dwarf top when propagated on the regular root 
used in producing the standard apple tree. 
Anoka is a new apple produced by that great plant 
wizard of South Dakota. Professor Niels Hansen. The 
tree starts to bear very young, often producing apples on 
2-year-old trees in the nursery row and is a heavy annual 
bearer. The fruit has much the appearance of Duchess 
of Oldenburg but is larger and a little more oblong, and 
does not show quite so much color. Ripens very early, 
beginning around August 15th. The flavor is mild and 
very fine. We like it much better than Yellow Trans¬ 
parent. 
Four of these trees were sent to the Fargo, North Da¬ 
kota, Experimental Station in the spring of 1920 (1-year 
trees). In the fall of 1922 that Station made the follow¬ 
ing report: “This spring two of the four trees blossomed; 
one produced 23 apples, the other 26.” 
Seven years ago we purchased two trees from Pro¬ 
fessor Hansen. The second year after planting, one of the 
little trees—then only a three-year-old—produced 14 
large apples; the other tree 12. Neither of the trees are 
over 7 feet tall and both have borne large crops every 
year since. 
This is just the apple for people getting along in years 
to plant, as they will bean in 2 years. They are also just 
the apple to plant in the back yard or in any little nook 
or corner where room is scarce. 
One customer reports: “The Anoka I received from you 
last year bore 6 fine apples the same summer.” From an¬ 
other customer, a fruit grower in South Dakota; “Over 
one bushel of apples from one small tree, about 7 feet 
high, in 1 year.” 
ANOKA Special Offer! 
Nice 2- to 3-ft. trees, 2 for $1.00; 5 for $2.25; 10 for $4.25. 
Bearing size, 4- to 5-ft. trees, 75c each; 5 for $3.00; 10 for 
$5.50, postpaid. 
Extra select. 5 to 6 ft., $1.00; 10 for $9.00, express collect. 
Anoka is a splendid apple to eat—a splendid apple to 
cook—a great big apple from a very little tree that can 
be grown in a very little yard. 
Two-Year-Old Anoka Apple Tree in Nursery Row. 
7 Apples on One Little Tree. 
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