OKA CHERRY 
From Prof. Hansen, the Plant Wizard of South Dakota 
The trees are perfectly hardy in North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, 
North Michigan, and all over Minnesota, wherever the hardy fruits 
can be grown. 
The trees begin to bear as two year olds right in the nursery rows and properly fertilized 
will bear heavy crops every year. The fruit is round, averages 1]4 inch in diameter, is black 
on the outside with a rich juicy red-purple flesh that is very sweet. 
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The trees are small, so small in fact, that 6 
or more can be grown in a back yard, interfer¬ 
ing little with other things. Being a sand cherry 
hybrid it requires some other plum to fertilize 
its blossoms so that it will bear fruit. 
OKA The Best of All 
Hardy Sweet Cherries 
All who have had the pleasure of eat¬ 
ing this wonderful new plum-cherry hybrid 
are perfectly agreed that it’s the sweetest 
and finest of all hardy cherries. 
In 1932 Oka Cherry was the only new 
fruit added by the Minnesota State Horti¬ 
cultural Society to its fruit list for planting 
all over the state. 
We find the Rocky Mountain Cherry best for 
this purpose. One Rocky Mountain Cherry- 
should be purchased to go with each 6 Oka 
Cherry trees. 
OKA Cherry Prices 
Each 6 12 
3 to 4 ft.#0.75 #3.70 # 6.50 
4 to 5 ft. 1.00 5.00 9.00 
5 to 6 ft. 1.25 6.00 10.00 
5 to 6 ft. Select Specimen Trees #1.50 each; 2 
or more #1.25. 
Oka Cherries 
The N ew 
RHUBARBS 
McDONALD. A new and select strain of 
Rhubarb or Pieplant developed and sent 
out from the Experimental Station of the 
Dominion of Canada. McDonald is un* 
•usually high for a Rhubarb in sugar con' 
tent which causes a great saving in sugar 
in its cooking. It is also an unusually 
fine flavored Rhubarb which makes it 
very desirable. McDonald does not go 
to seed which makes it possible to use 
over a long period of time. Makes a fine 
pink sauce of finest flavor. Strong roots, 
75c each; 6 for #4.20, postpaid. 
RUBY. Another fine Rhubarb from the 
Canadian Station. Ruby like McDonald 
is very high in sugar content, does not 
go to seed and is of exceptionally fine 
flavor but differs from that variety in 
color. McDonald is a green stemmed sort 
with a good deal of red veining running 
through it while Ruby is a deep rich ruby 
red, the reddest of all Rhubarb. It makes 
a deep rich red sauce which is very beau' 
tiful and tasty. Strong roots 75c each; 
6 for #4.20, postpaid. 
ROCKY 
MOUNTAIN 
CHERRY 
Rocky Mountain Cherry is a small bush 
cherry growing well in the western Da¬ 
kotas. In the wild state the fruit is about 
Zl in. in diameter. Under cultivation and 
selected out for the best varieties it grows 
larger and many of these selected varieties 
make a fine fruit for jams and jellies. The 
bushes grow to a height of 4 to 6 feet and 
are just black with fruit. It makes a great 
fruit for the children to run to. Some 
companies sell the bushes for hedge pur¬ 
poses. It is a perfect fertilizer for the 
OKA Cherry. 
Nice 12 to 18 in. bushes, 8 for #1.00; 
select bushes. 18 to 24 in. 35c each; 4 
for #1.00. 
Nanking Cherries 
NANKING CHERRY 
(Prunus Tomentosa) 
Something entirely new. A very ornamental spreading 
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 de¬ 
sired 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. 
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