BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
A NEW CREATION 
from the Plant Wizard 
of South Dakota 
OKA CHERRY 
PROF. HANSEN S LATEST AND BEST CHERRY 
All who have had the pleasure of eating this 
wonderful new plum-cherry hybrid are perfectly 
agreed that it’s the sweetest and finest of all hardy 
cherries. 
In the cherry family, OKA is Professor Hansen’s 
latest and best creation—a sand cherry cross on 
Champa. It is absolutely hardy and can be grown 
perfectly anywhere in North Dakota, South Da¬ 
kota, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan or Minnesota, 
where other hardy fruits are grown. 
The OKA grows as a dwarf in very little space, 
yet bears an abundance of fruit—immense round 
cherries, a full inch in diameter. Outside the cher¬ 
ries are dark black-red; inside a purple juicy meat, 
wonderfully sweet. 
Six or More Trees in a City Back Yard 
The OKA cherry begins to bear 
on two-year-old trees; that is, the 
second year after being planted 
out. The trees produce annually 
great crops of large, sweet, deli¬ 
cious red-fleshed cherries. 
Due to their dwarf-like growing 
habit, the trees may be planted as 
close as six feet apart. Six or more 
in a city back yard will not inter¬ 
fere with garden flowers, or other 
plantings. The cherries grow in 
clusters of two all along the stems 
and they cover the branches so 
densely as to make the entire tree 
look black. Especially if allowed 
to grow in bush form, which is 
their natural growth, the trees will 
bear heavily all along the limbs 
from the ground up. 
THE OKA CHERRY 
Priced as Low as 
75c each 
2 to 3 Foot Trees 
7 for $ 1.00 Postpaid 
Clipping from Dec. 10, 1932, 
issue of “The Farmer, and Farm, 
Stock 6? Home”, Minnesota’s great 
agricultural paper. Extract from a 
write-up in this paper of the late 
meeting of The Minnesota Horti¬ 
cultural Society: 
Practically the only change in the 
recommended fruit list of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society was the addition 
of OKA, an early maturing, high 
quality, red-fleshed plum-cherry hy¬ 
brid, for culture in all parts of Min¬ 
nesota. This variety was developed 
by Dr. N. E. Hansen, horticulturist 
of the South Dakota Experiment 
Station, Brookings. W. H. Aider- 
man, horticulturist of the Minne¬ 
sota Experiment Station, announced 
that a new hybrid plum, No. 194, 
and a new currant, No. 24, will be 
named and introduced by the Min¬ 
nesota State Fruit Breeding Farm 
this year. 
"OKA" 
Is the best of all hardy sweet cherries, and we have some extra 
fine trees to offer this spring. 
3- to 4Tt. trees, each 75c; 5 for $3.50; 10 for $6.50, postpaid. 
4- to 5-ft. trees, each 95c; 5 for $4.00; 10 for $7.25, postpaid. 
5- to 6-ft. bear. size., $1.25; 5 for $5.00; 10 for $9.50, express col. 
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