FERRIS SUPERIOR QUALITY 
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Here are the finest of all Plums—hardiest and most fruitful— 
Plums of the highest quality and flavor. You should plant a clump 
of several varieties to get the biggest and best crops (see distance 
apart to plant Plums in the table on page 61), and you will very 
quickly harvest a bountiful crop of luscious Plums—all you want to 
eat fresh, a large quantity for canning and pies, and some to sell 
besides. They are so easy to grow, and our Plum trees are all select, 
No. 1 grade. 
OUR SPECIAL PRICES ON 
ALL PLUM TREES: 4-5 ft. 
average height, extra fine, north¬ 
ern grown—55c each; 10 for 
#5.00. 
Superior. 
GOLDEN ROD. Finest and 
hardiest yellow Plum. Large 
fruit, juicy and sweet, and of 
excellent quality. Freestone. 
HANSKA. You will like this 
large, bright red Plum, with 
its rich apricot flavor. Young 
to bear, and hardy anywhere. 
Fine for cooking or eating 
fresh. 
KAHINTA. One of the finest 
Plums grown. Very large red 
fruit, flesh firm, with small 
pit, and delicious flavor. 
Heavy bearer, and hardy 
throughout the North. 
OPATA. Not so large as some 
of the other Hybrid Plums, 
but of very fine quality, and 
the first Plum of them all to 
ripen. Fruit is freestone, dark 
purplish red with blue bloom, 
and with a very pleasing 
“sweet'acid’' flavor. Very 
heavy bearer, growing and 
well in any section. 
fruiting 
Waneta Cherry Plum. 
RED WING. One of the finest of the 
hardy Plums. Large fruit, firm, yeh 
low overlaid with bright red; stone 
entirely free, small; flavor sweet, 
quality high. Ripens third week in 
August. Excellent for cooking or 
eating fresh; a good shipper. 
SAPA. One of the most wonderful of 
the Hansen’s Plums, with dark pur' 
pie skin and purple flesh of the finest 
flavor. Splendid for canning. Fruit 
is borne in clusters similar to grapes; 
medium large in size. Bears young 
and heavily. 
SUPERIOR. The newest of the extra 
hardy Minnesota Plums, and said to 
be the finest. Fruit is enormous and 
of outstanding quality. Color clear 
dark red with russet spots; flesh rich 
yellow, tender, juicy, with a sweet 
sprightly flavor. In texture, flavor and color, this new Plum has 
everything to justify the name given it. 
UNDERWOOD. Most popular of the hardy Minnesota Hybrids, 
and should be in every Plum planting. Very large, red fruit, 
juicy and sweet, and of the very best flavor. Small pit, semi'ding; 
heavy annual cropper, 
and extremely hardy. 
WANETA. A master' 
piece in Plums. It often 
bears the next year 
after planting; fruit is 
extremely large, some' 
times 2 inches in diam' 
eter, and of finest quah 
ity. Dark reddish pur' 
pie. Most popular Plum 
ever grown. Hardy in 
any part of America. 
Sapa. 
Monticello, Ind., 
Aug. 15, 1934 
Dear Sirs:—My two small 
plum trees, (Sapa and Opa- 
ta), I purchased from you 
three years ago, have at' 
tracted hundreds of visitors 
this summer — both trees; 
hanging full of clustered 
plums. On one of these 
trees I expect to get three 
bushels of fruit. 
Mrs. Guy V. Conner. 
Underwood. 
Ferris’ Extra Hardy 
PLUM TREES 
