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Named Varieties of the Manchu Apr!cots 
MANCHU apricot . Large yellow fruit; heavy crop. Fresh fruit No. 1 in size and 
quality. Cooking test: cocks up into pale yellow good quality sauce. Appar¬ 
ently the largest fruit in this lot of seedlings, ^he name Manchu apricot is 
now reserved for it. 
MANDARIN apricot . Fruit large, rich yellow color; one of the best in quality, fresh 
V or when cooked. 
CHOW apricot . Tree productive; fruit large, good eating. Cooking test; pale yellow 
4 sauce of good quality. 
SING apricot . (Chinese for apricot). Tree productive, fruit large. Cooking test; 
good rich orange yellow sauce, flavor stronger than some of the others. 
NINGUTA apricot . Fruit large yellow with red blush. Crop very heavy. Season late, 
first week in August. Fresh fruit very mild, one of the mildest and best. 
TOLA apricot . Large, freestone. Makes excellent quality sauce. 1935 crop very 
y heavy. One of the best. Season early. August, 1935. 
ANDA apricot . Tree productive, freestone of good size. Season late. In cooking, 
stays firm and does not cook up. One of the very best in quality. 
ZUN apricot . Quality of fruit, nearly excellent. Pit small, round, freestone. 
SINO apricot . Heavy crop, fruit small, on 8 foot crowded tree. Cocking test: 
excellent flavor. 
LALIN apricot . Fruit large, yellow with red blush. Fresh fruit good quality, 
v Tree, a heavy crop. No cooking test. Season early. 
HULAN apricot . Very heavy crop of large fruit. Season early. Cooking test: makes 
go jd flavored sauce. 
SANSIN apricot . Heavy crop of large fruit, fresh fruit of excellent quality, making 
a rich orange-yellow sauce. 
TERMS, In the spring of 1935 there were no budded trees of the Manchu apricots 
available, but some scions were distributed. In 1935 all these 1?. varieties were 
budded on native plum stocks and will be ready for shipping the fall of 1936. Price, 
each tree, One Dollar. Early orders are -advised as the supply ia limited. Nursery¬ 
men and others may order and pay for them now, and have them delivered as a budstick 
in August 1936, instead of as a tree in November 1936. 
For spring 1936, only a few scions are available as the trees were cut closely 
for budsticks last fall. Price of scions per foot, Three Dollars. 
Perennial Tflheat 
It is easy to see that a good perennial wheat would change the entire wheat 
industry of the world. During my 1934 tour to East Siberia, success was announced 
with a perennial wheat. I went to Omsk, Siberia, the center of this work. In the 
March, 1935, "Country Gentleman", appeared my report. The Soviet government has 
appropriated a million rubles for these experiments. 
When the perennial Russian grass, Agrouvron donga turn . is hybridized with wheat 
the first generation is sterile, but ?/hen bred back to wheat the result is a good 
wheat of perennial habit. These hybrids are not yet ready for distribution. But 1 
obtained a few seeds of original species, Agropyron elongatum . the mother of 
perennial wheat. Of the 41 plants raised from this seed, two were sent last fall fry 
request to the United States Department of Agriculture, and two to the University of 
Minnesota. The rest will be propagated here as rapidly as possible for distribution 
to the wheat breeders. 1 am sure they will make many hybrids and they will be only 
about six or seven years behind the Russians in getting the work started. 
Shilka. East Siberia. Iris . One year plants from seed I gathered in 1934 upon 
steep stony hillsides in the Shilka region. East Siberia, upon the north fork of the 
Siberian railway. Too late in season to note flowers, but probably blue. Should be 
hardy far North and into Canada. 
One year plants, price, 3 for $1.00. 
The Hansen Bush Cherry 
I have selected since 1895 from over a million plants of the Sand Cherry, Prunup 
Besseyi . native of the western uplands of South Dakota, and am well along on the 
second million. The name Hansen Bush Cherry distinguishes this strain which improves 
' x steadily in size and quality each plant generation. One year plants, 10 for $1.00. 
