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BRAND PEONY PARMS.Inc. 
BEARING BOTH FRUITS AND FLOWERS 
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PURPOSE 
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For many years we have been interested in Flowering Crabs. We felt that at some future time a 
line of crabs would be introduced that would bear fruit as well as flowers. Our first crab of this 
kind was the Dolga. We have added to this one as fast as we have found desirable kinds until 
we now have six beautiful Flowering Crabs which are absolutely hardy here in Minnesota and most 
of which bear good edible fruit. 
FLOWERING CRAB LIST 
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Dolgo Crab 
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OFFER 
Flowering Crabs are not only 
wonderful to grow as individual 
specimens dotted here and there 
about the lawns and borders, but 
often they are planted with sev- 
eral kinds in a group. For such a 
group, we are making this spe¬ 
cial offer which we feel is the 
finest offering of Crabs made 
this season. 
Beauty. 3 to 4 ft .$1.00 
1.25 
.75 
Des Moines. 2 to 
Dolga. 3 to 4 ft. 
Eleyi. 4 to 5 ft . 1.25 
Flame. 3 to 4 ft . 1.25 
Hopa. 3 to 4 ft . 1.00 
Regular value . .$6.50 
Des Moines Flowering Crab 
. This is a truly horticultural novelty. The 
tree is of first degree hardiness. It is a 
tremendous bearer. The fruit is of good 
size for a Crab and good to cook. If not 
picked the fruit will hang on all winter 
as shown: in the illustration. 
BEAUTY. This crab comes to us from Prof. Hansen of the South Dakota Fruit Breeding Farm. 
Many people are looking for just such a crab as Beauty Crab. The tree is the most upright 
growing apple or crab tree we know. We have a specimen in our private garden that stands 
about 18 feet high with a limb spread of not more than 7 feet. In growth it resembles the 
Lombardy or Bolleana Poplar and will fit into a planting where either of these trees would. 
It is a tree one would like to plant against the corner of a house or as a sentinel or accent tree 
along the back line of the yard. Besides being a pretty tree, it bears great quantities of brilliant 
deep red crabs an inch in diameter which are beautiful on the tree and also make wonderful sauce. 
2 to 3 ft., 75c; 3 to 4 ft., £1.00; 4 to 5 ft., £1.25. 
DES MOINES. We consider this crab the horticultural wonder of our time. 
As I was riding about Des Moines several years ago with the late W. G. 
Dumont, who was at that time President of the American Peony Society, 
I admired the nice plantings about the city. During this drive we passed a 
yard that contained a big clump of Flowering Crabs. The trees were bare 
of all foliage but to our surprise one of them was at that late date, February, 
still covered with a great crop of small crab apples. Mr. Dumont later pro¬ 
cured cuttings from this tree and I began to propagate it. The fruit is round 
to conical in shape, and about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. It is of 
a dull red color on a yellowish green ground. The fruit is borne in such 
quantities as to almost hide the limbs. And most remarkable of all, if not 
picked from the tree it will hang on all winter. The picture of the fruit 
shown on this page was taken on the I2th day of January, 1938. 
Nice 1-yr. trees, £1.25 each; 2 or more at £1.00 each. 
DOLGO. The Dolgo is known as the great dual purpose crab. The trees, which 
seldom grow over 12 feet high, are very shapely and neat in appearance and 
develop into a beautiful small lawn tree. It is extremely hardy and after it 
has attained its growth will last for many years. In the spring it is one 
solid mass of large white blooms, which are followed by a great crop of 
crab apples. These crabs are a brilliant red about an inch in diameter and 
an inch and a half long. The fruit is so brilliant in color and so abundant 
on the tree that it makes a wonderful ornamental sight. The fruit makes up 
into a jelly of the finest flavor and a beautiful red color. This crab is not 
grown for its ornamental qualities alone but it is grown commercially for 
the fruit which readily sells at a big price. One of our customers from 
Washington, D. C., writes us: “The Dolgo, when in fruit, is the most 
beautiful thing I ever saw in the line of a flowering crab.” The Dolga is 
now being planted in northern orchards for the fruit which sells for high 
prices. 
2 to 3 ft., 65c each; 5 for $3.00. 
3 to 4 ft., 75e each; 5 for $3.50. 
4 fo 5 ft., $1.25 each; 2 or more at $1.00. 
5 to 6 ft., $1.50 each. 
fr* $5.75 
Postpaid 
in U. S. A. 
FLOWERING TREES 
ELEYI. A new flowering crab from Europe that we have tried out and found 
very desirable. Many of the crabs are not desirable where one has a severe 
winter such as we have here in Minnesota. Eleyi has done so well with us 
that we are adding it to our list as most desirable. The flowers are single and a 
dark pink color. The fruit which follows is a bright red and very showy. The 
foliage in the spring is a peculiar red and very noticeable. 4 to 5 ft., £1.25 each. 
FLAME. This is the sensational new flowering crab recently named and sent out 
by the Minnesota State Fruit Farm. It is a beautiful slender-limbed, very grace¬ 
ful, upright-growing tree. This small tree is especially attractive in the fall when 
every branch is literally covered with great ropes of its small brilliantly colored 
red fruit. Those who named it say the name is appropriate as the ripening fruit 
resembles one great flame of fire. It is also good for jelly and canning. 
Nice 3- to 4-ft. trees, £1.25 each; 2 or more at £1.00 each. 
Other Than Flowering Crab Trees 
ROSE TREE OF CHINA (Flowering Plum) 
PRUNUS TRILOBA (Double Flowering Plum). This is the shrub often sold under the 
name of “Rose Tree of China.” The most beautiful of all the flowering shrubs that is 
hardy enough for the Middle Northwest. Grows into a bush or tree from 8 to 10 feet 
high. In the early spring the branches are loaded with small, very double, roselike flow¬ 
ers an inch in diameter; intense pink on the outside, fading to the most delicate shell- 
pink in the center. Strong 2 to 3 ft. trees, 75c; 2 lor £1.25. 
RED LEAF PLUM 
IMPROVED NEWPORT. The Minnesota Fruit Farm sent out the Newport which was a 
fairly good red-leaved tree. They later on discovered among their red seedlings a tree 
which resembled the Newport but which had much redder leaves and was far superior to 
the Newport in every way. This is the IMPROVED NEWPORT. The foliage is an 
intense rich red all through the season. A row of Improved Newport in the nursery all 
through the season is a brilliant sight. The most brilliant of all red-leaved trees and 
perfectly hardy 100 miles north of Faribault. This is the red-leaved Plum. 
2 to 3 ft., 75c; 3 to 4 ft., £1.00. 
BECHTEL'S DOUBLE FLOWERING CRAB 
A double form of the native wild Crab. Grows about ten feet high. Hardy. During 
the blooming season, it is covered with masses of beautiful, double pink flowers that look 
like pink Roses. The perfume is simply exquisite. Strong 2 to 3 ft., 75c; 2 for £1.40. 
HOPA. From a purely ornamental standpoint the Hopa is without doubt the most 
beautiful flowering crab that can be grown in the North. It is perfectly hardy 
here at Faribault and is hardy anywhere in our state. It develops into a beau¬ 
tiful, graceful, medium-sized tree that is an ornament anywhere it may be placed. 
The bark is a rich dark blackish red. The buds and foliage are a noticeable 
reddish purple, and the tree when in bloom is covered with large single deep 
rose-colored blossoms which continue long on 
the tree to be followed by quantities of small 
reddish fleshed attractive fruit which makes a 
good jelly. 
2 to 3 ft., 75c; 2 or more trees at 60c. 
3 to 4 ft., £1.00; 2 or more at 85c. 
4 to 5 ft., £1.25 each. 
ED RIVER. This is another of the dual pur, 
pose crabs. It not only makes a very fine 
ornamental tree when in bloom but it also 
bears profusely a large red crab which is 
beautiful on the tree when ripe and is fine to 
eat as late as Christmas. We call it the farth¬ 
est North Crab as it comes to us from Fargo, 
N. D., where it was originated by Prof. 
Yeagers of the North Dakota Station. It is 
a hybrid between the Red Delicious and the 
Dolga crab carrying the good points of both 
parents. Our stock of this variety is limited. 
2 to 3 ft., 75c; 3 to 4 ft., £1.00. 
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Red Leaf Plum 
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