BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc 
A New Creation—The 
After being thoroughly tried out, OKA 
CHERRY in the fall of 1932 was added to 
the State’s Recommended Fruit List, by 
the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 
OKA an Ornamental 
One of our customers who purchased 
six trees writes: The fruit of the Oka is 
very fine and sweet, but even if it bore no 
fruit at all it would be cheap at the price 
paid, as the tree is so beautiful when in 
full bloom that it is a real ornamental. 
Fe itilhers 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, or a 
Rocky Mountain Cherry to every five trees 
of Oka. 
Since the Rocky Mountain Cherry re¬ 
quires so much less space, we recommend 
It and can supply nice 2-3 ft. trees at 25c 
each, if purchased with Oka Cherry Trees. 
OKA CHERRY 
Prof. Hansen’s Latest and 
Best Cherry 
All who have had the pleasure of eating this wonderful new plum- 
cherry hybrid are perfectly agreed that it’s the sweetest and finest of 
all hardy cherries. 
In the cherry family, OKA is Professor Hansen'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 abun¬ 
dance of fruit—immense round cherry, a full inch in diameter. Out¬ 
side, the cherries are dark black-red; inside a purple juicy meat, 
wonderfully sweet. 
Six or More Trees in a City Back Yard 
The trees we send out this spring should bear fruit next year. The 
trees produce annually great crops of large, sweet, delicious red-fleshed 
cherries, an inch and one-quarter in diameter. 
OKA CHERRY PRICES 
4/5 Ft. Bearing Size Trees 
Each .# 1.25 
Five for . 6.00 
Ten for . 11.50 
5/6 Ft. All Specimen 
Trees 
Each .# 1.50 
Five for . 7.00 
Ten for . 12.85 
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 inter¬ 
fere 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 Cherries 
NANKING CHERRY 
(Prunus Tomentosa) 
Something entirely new. A very ornamental spread¬ 
ing shrub or low growing tree (can be kept in either 
form), covered in early spring before the leaves appear 
with masses of bloom. Pink in bud, the tiny flowers open 
a pure white and the contrast between white petals and 
bright red calyx is very noticeable. The short-stemmed 
cherry-like fruit, a rich scarlet, ripens in June and is both 
good to eat and very decorative. It makes a beautiful shrub 
to plant where an early blooming, large shrub is desired 
and it produces in abundance a crop of delicious fruit good 
to eat from the hand, that makes beautiful rich red jellies 
and jams, and a good wine. 
Selected strain: 2-3 ft., 75c; 4 for #2.50. 
Nanking Cherry 
