"It’s Not a Home Until It’s Planted” 
Cherry Plums are being grown more generally now throughout the 
Northwest. They are the results of cross breeding by horticulturists to de- 
velop Cherries that could be used in sections where the Eastern Cherries 
are not very hardy. They produce excellent fruit especially for canning and 
preserves, which has made them very popular throughout the Northwest. 
Nicollet Cherry. The Nicollet is the truest example of a sour cherry ever 
produced in and for the Northwest. The tree is small, finely branched, 
with small leaves. The fruit is small, roundish oval, thin skinned, dull 
cherry-red in color, with greenish yellow flesh which is tender, juicy, 
mildly sour, cherrydike in flavor and texture. Good quality fruit with 
small stones. Season August. Hardy except in extreme North. 
Opata. Tree is a good grower, an early and heavy bearer. The fruit is one 
inch or more in diameter and is excellent for eating fresh and for pre- 
serves. It is a dark purplish red with blue bloom; pit small; flesh green 
and firm and partakes of the rich sweetness of the Gold Plum. Fruits the 
last of July or first week in August. 
Sapa. Tree moderately free grower and naturally rather crooked when 
young. The color of the fruit is a glossy dark purple 
and the flesh is rich, dark red, size one inch or more in 
diameter. They often bear quite a crop the second year. 
The 5- to 6-ft. trees will bear the next year after they 
are transplanted. 
Monitor 
Plum. 
nearly black when ripe; flesh firm, sometimes tinged 
with red when fully mature; especially recommended 
for sauce and preserves. 
McKAY’S Hardy Cherry Plums 
German Prune. Fruit long, oval, small to medium; color 
blue; flesh greenish, slightly yellow; stone small, oval, 
pointed, very free; quality fair to good. 
LATHAM 
Latham is the greatest of all Rasp¬ 
berries for the North. Hardy, strong 
growing, disease resistant. Very heavy 
bearer of exceptionally large fruit oi 
delicious flavor. Our stock is the genuine 
strain of the originator. 
Zumbra Cherry. The Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm 
originated the Zumbra. This variety is extremely hardy 
and suitable for planting where other varieties of 
Cherries will not thrive. Ripens in August. Has a 
flavor similar to the black Sweet Cherries. The fruit 
reaches a size of one inch in diameter; color very dark, 
Japan and European Plums 
These varieties are among those planted along Lake 
Michigan and in favored western localities. Wherever 
hardy they are desirable on account of their large size, 
but none of them are superior to the above plums in 
quality. Only semi-hardy. 
Lombard. Fruit oval, medium to large; 
color reddish violet with blue bloom; 
flesh yellow, firm, of fair quality; 
stone cling. 
Yellow Egg. Fruit in shape like a goose 
egg; color creamy yellow when ripe; 
flesh yellow; quality fair. Season med¬ 
ium. 
Latham Raspberry. 
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