1935 SPRING AND FALL THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. ^ YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 
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color, underlaid with pale yellow, blushed and 
marked with stripes and splashes of red, deep¬ 
ening in highly colored specimens oi brilliant red; 
very attractive. Flesh whitish, tinged with red 
when thoroughly ripe. Moderately fine, crisp, 
tender and juicy, agreeably sub-acid; good to 
extra good. First hardiness. 5c per tree extra. 
Yellow Transparent Apple—Earliest sum¬ 
mer. This is the best of the extra early apples, 
being excellent for culinary and dessert. It 
ripens earlier than the Early Harvest; fruit 
medium to large. Tree moderate grower, very 
hardy, healthy, comes into bearing very young. 
Skin thin, tender, smooth, .waxy', pale yellow, 
changing to an attractive yellowish-white. Flesh 
white, tender, juicy with a pleasant .flavor; good 
to extra good. First hardiness. 
CRAB APPLES 
Florence—Very desirable for commercial 
planting because the tree commences bearing 
very young, is a reliable cropper and extremely 
prolific. Fruit good size, very attractive in ap¬ 
pearance and goodquality. Color, yellowish white 
overspread with brilliant pinkish red. Flesh 
tinged with yellow, crisp, tender, juicy, very 
brisk sub-acid; good. August and early Septem¬ 
ber. First hardiness. 
Hyslop — Season, September and October. 
Fruit large, very brilliant color, dark red or 
purplish, overspread with thick blue bloom; 
borne in clusters. The tree is a good grower, 
very hardy and a reliable cropper, yielding good 
crops annually. It is desirable for both home use 
and for market. First hardiness. 
Dolga—Another of Professor Hansen’s. It 
is an oblong crab of real beauty and peculiar 
lemon-acid flavor —entirely different from any 
other crab and far superior to any other crab 
for jellies; producing a transparent bright-red 
jelly of high quality. 
The color is a beautiful red, solid over the 
entire fruit. The tree is a thing of beauty at 
blooming time with its large white flowers and 
later with its ropes of large dark-red fruit. At 
a distance, when the crabs are maturing, the 
tree appears to be covered with beautiful flowers. 
The heaviest bearing crab apple we have, and 
one of the first degree of hardiness. 
Gurney’s Seedless Crab—Discovered by us 
in the Badlands of western South Dakota, grow¬ 
ing back of a homestead shack and producing 
an abundance of crab apples about 114 inches in 
diameter, long stemmed; yellow background, 
striped red, of high quality, almost perfectly seed¬ 
less crab apple. We cut hundreds of these and 
out of a lot found but two or three bearing a 
single seed. The rest were seedless and have 
proven to be since that time in our Trial Ground 
Orchards. First degree hardiness. 
We made arrangements with the homesteader 
to secure a supply of scions and we have propa¬ 
gated this rapidly. It has proven perfectly har¬ 
dy, a heavy annual bearer of high quality fruit 
that is especially valuable for pickles and pre¬ 
serves on account of it being seedless. 
Hopa — See Ornamentals. Page 65. 
Red Flesh Crab— Introduced 1928. A most 
remarkable novelty, that is probably destined to 
world-wide popularity wherever apples are grown. 
The tree is ornamental as well as useful, the 
beautiful red flowers and moderate growth mak¬ 
ing it a very desirable lawn tree. The original 
tree gives promise of being a good annual bearer 
and bore its first two crops in 1927 and 1928. 
The fruit in size is 1 Z 2 by 1 % inches in’diameter, 
in color a brilliant solid polished dark red all 
over. The flesh is red throughout and makes 
excellent red preserves and red jelly which at¬ 
tracted favorable attention at the State College 
exhibit at the South Dakota State Fair, Huron, 
September, 1928. Season, fall. Prices: 3-4 ft., 
50c each, $2.25 per 5, $4.00 per 10; 4-6 ft., 55c 
each, $2.60 per 5, $4.50 per 10. 
Red Siberian— This Crab is exactly the same 
as the Yellow Siberian excepting in color. It is a 
bright red. First hardiness. 
Sugar Crab — An unusually high flavored yel¬ 
low, sweet Crab; fruit two inches through. This 
has proven far superior to any other sweet Crab 
that we are growing. Season, September. Tree, 
hardy, vigorous, and an early bearer. Excellent 
for pickling and sauce. We recommend it to 
everyone planting a sweet Crab and it should be 
in every orchard. First degree hardiness. 
APPLE S—(Continued) 
McIntosh Red 
Perkins Apple — The fruit is large, red, and 
round as a ball. It is not an Apple for the North 
alone but one that will be welcomed anywhere, 
will take its place with eastern Baldwins, Spys, 
and Seek no Furthers. The flesh is fine grained 
and deliciously flavored, as firm in February as 
it is in October. Season, October to April. First 
hardiness. 
Price’s Sweet—Season, August to November. 
Very upright grower, early, and annual bearer 
of medium sized, excellent quality, green striped 
with red, sweet apples. This is the best of all 
the sweet apples for the extreme north planting. 
Second hardiness. 
Salome—Fruit hangs well to the tree in high 
winds, is firm, stands handling well and keeps 
pretty well. Pale yellow or greenish blushed with 
pinkish-red striped carmine. Flesh tender, 
juicy, slightly sub-acid. Tree vigorous, very 
hardy, healthy, and comes into bearing early and 
is reliable cropper. Season November to March. 
Stayman’s Winesap—An improved Wine- 
sap; fruit red, juicy, sub-acid, a long keeper; 
apple is larger than the old Winesap; a better 
tree, and longer lived; one of the Great Western 
commercial apples. Second hardiness. 
Tolman’s Sweet—Fruit medium size, bright 
yellow, much esteemed for cooking. In ordinary 
storage its season is from November to January. 
This is an exceptionally sweet apple. Trees 
are first degree of hardiness. 
Wolf River — Season, October to December. 
One of the largest apples grown. Tree grows 
to immense size, very productive, bright red, 
fair quality, splendid cooking apple. Second 
hardiness. 
Wealthy—Season, September to January. 
This variety we consider the most valuable of 
all the market apples and for home use. The 
tree is exceptionally hardy, comes into bearing 
as early as the summer apples, producing 
immense crops annually, and we believe it is 
the most valuable apple today for the small or 
the large orchard. Fruit above medium to large; 
