OSCAR H. WILL & CO., BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
75 
CHERRIES and CHERRY HYBRIDS 
The Best Suited of All Fruits to the Northwest 
SPECIAL COLLECTION OF 8 DELICIOUS HARDY CHERRIES 
We offer one each of the following eight varieties: 
CHAMPA — TOM THUMB — OKA — COMPASS — ST. ANTHONY — TOMEN- 
TOSA — SAND CHERRY — NATIVE CHOKECHERRY. Total Value $2.80. 
Special Price $2.25 
Champa 
COMPASS. The tree is perfectly hardy, even in the far North, and seems 
especially adapted to the Western prairies, where it is very free from 
disease, and remarkably exempt from insect enemies and the depreda¬ 
tions of birds. It frequently bears the same year it is set, and is quite 
certain to bear a good crop annually thereafter. The fruit, which re¬ 
sembles a small bright red plum, is of pleasant acidity as eaten out of 
the hand and when cooked or canned makes a remarkably fine rich 
flavored sauce. Price, each, 3 to 4 ft., 40c; 5, $1.75. 
OKA CHERRY. This is the outstanding Hansen production of recent 
years. Introduced a few years ago it has gained an enviable name 
for itself both in this country and Canada. A sand cherry hybrid, 
bushy but larger than Tom Thumb, it bears early and heavily. The 
fruit is the largest of the bush cherry type, dark red in color with red¬ 
dish flesh, and of delicious flavor. The fruit hangs to the tree for a 
long time after ripe and dries instead of decaying. Altogether it is a 
fruit that will take a very high place on account of its combined good 
qualities. Each, 3 to 4 ft., 40c; 3 for $1.80. 
ZUMBRA. This is an entirely new type of cherry which promises to 
be of great value. It has been thoroughly tested 
for hardiness and seems to be fully as hardy as 
the Compass. It is a production of the Minnesota 
State Fruit Breeding Farm, and is supposed to be 
a cross between the sweet cherry, the pin cherry 
and sand cherry. Fruit is very dark, flesh green¬ 
ish, freestone, quality very good. Excellent for 
preserves. Each, 3 to 4 ft., 40c; 5 for $1.80. 
CHAMPA. This is a handsome bush about the size 
of the common sand cherry and bears in great 
profusion a fairly early ripening black fruit very 
similar to the Tom Thumb cherry, but with a 
greenish flesh. It is a delicious fruit to eat from 
the hand and excellent for sauce. This is one of 
Prof. Hansen’s productions. Each, 3 to 4 ft., 40c; 
TOM Another production of Prof. Hansen 
and one which is meeting with unusual favor in 
Canada. It is a cherry growing on a bush, and 
may be planted like currants and gooseberries. 
Begins to bear the second year and produces tre¬ 
mendous crops of cherries about the size of Com¬ 
pass but black in color and with dark red flesh 
like the Sana. Each, 2 to 3 ft., 40c; 5 for $1.80. 
ST. ANTHONY. This is another Minnesota 
Station Hybrid cherry of the same type as 
Zumbra but with red flesh and more 
palatable still for cooking. Price, 3 to 
Sweet Choke- 
cherry 
P if V lY) 'fb i.\' 8( or NANKING 
CHERRY (Chinese Bush Cherry). 
Worthy as a beautiful ornamental and 
hedge plant, outstanding on account of 
its hardiness which has been well dem¬ 
onstrated both in North Dakota and 
Manitoba, valuable for its fruit, which 
is of an unusually pleasant flavor, a 
handsome red in color, and larger than 
the chokecherry. Blooms in early 
spring, grows to a compact large bush 
or small tree. Great Plains Station Se¬ 
lection. 3 to 4 ft., each, 40c; 5, $1.80'; 
2 to 3 ft. seedling transplants, each, 30c; 
Si^N*I> $2 USteRRY or ROCKY MOUNTAIN 
CHERRY. This is a native bush cherry; 
wonderfully productive and very hardy. 
This fruit is nearly the size of a tame 
cherry and when dead ripe, of pleasant 
taste. Fine for jams and jellies. 2 to 3 
ft., each, 20c; 12, $2.00; 6 to 12 in., seed- 
^feH(lKE%^EE?^Y _ PRUNUS 
MELANOCARPA. This is a larger and 
sweeter cherry than the eastern variety 
and is exceedingly satisfactory for jelly 
and sauce, being perhaps the most de¬ 
licious for that purpose of any of our 
western fruit. Also valuable in shelter 
belt and windbreak planting and a hand¬ 
some ornament. Transplanted stock, 3 
to 4 ft., each, 20c; 10, $1.75; 4 to 6 ft., 
each, 25c; 10, $2.00. 
Sand Cherry 
Compass 
Oka Cherry 
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