BRAND'S FRUITS 
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 per¬ 
fectly agreed that it’s the sweetest and finest of 
all hardy cherries. 
In the cherry family, OKA is Professor Han¬ 
sen’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 Dakota, 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—im¬ 
mense round cherries, a full inch in diameter. 
Outside the cherries 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, delicious 
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 interfere 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. 
OKA 
Cherry 
Prices 
3 to 4 ft.— 
each, 85c; 
5 for $4.00; 
10 for $7.50. 
4 to 5 ft.— 
Each, $1.00; 
5 for $4.75; 
10 for $9.00. 
Clipping from Dec. 10, 1932, 
issue of “The Farmer and Farm 
Stock and Home”: 
Practically the only change 
in the recommended fruit list of 
the Horticultural Society was 
the addition of OKA, an early 
maturing, high quality, red- 
fleshed plum-cherry hybrid, for 
culture in all parts of Minne¬ 
sota. This variety was de¬ 
veloped by Dr. N. E. Hansen, 
horticulturist of the South 
Dakota Experiment Station, 
Brookings. 
Oka Cherries. 
Fertilizers for Plum Trees 
Most of the northern plums bear much better where two or 
more kinds that bloom at the same time are planted together. 
Oka Cherry is a western sand cherry-plum hybrid. To bear 
at its best it should be planted with one tree of Compass, as a 
fertilizer, to every 10 trees of Oka. 
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