Wekaga Crabapple - Pedigree: Nevis, Minnesota wild crab x Wolf River apple pol¬ 
len. Offered for the first time. Fruit 2-| x 2 l/8 inches, somewhat cylindrical, 
unctuous, regular, green, blushed. Flesh acid, mildly acerb, cooks tender. All win¬ 
ter. Scions 50 cents per foot. 
Waziya Crab - Pedigree: Nevis Minnesota wild crab x Northwestern Greening pollen. 
Offered for the first time. Perhaps the largest and best of the Nevis hybrids: fruit 
oblate, 2 1/8 x 2j inches, green, unctuous, and fragrant like the wild crab. The 
sharp acid fruit does not cook up but has much less wild crab acerbity. Sister to 
Wecota and Wetonka. An all-year keeper. Scions 50 cents per foot. 
Waziya of the early Indians was the spirit of the blizzard as well as of the cool 
breezes. His home was in the Wind Cave in the Black Hills. 
Some New Apples 
A host of new apple seedlings are coming forward for attention, in severe1 coun¬ 
tries of the world, in the endeavor to obtain varieties better adapted to the local 
climate. To distinguish these new fruits by numbers is the most convenient method 
for preliminary trial of large numbers, but for a few seedlings, I prefer names to 
numbers, even if they are only provisional. 
The name South Dakota preceding the numbers in the following list will give the 
source. The final name can come later, when they have proven of value for general 
cultivation. Many of these seedlings are only a step in a new direction. They rre 
material for further work by fruit-breeders. 
The size of the fruit is given mostly as grown on crowded trees; under orchard 
conditions the size usually increases from 50 to 50%. 
Jonathan apple as a breeder : The Jonathan apple is not hardy at the North, but 
as it transmits red color and superb quality has been used extensively in these ex¬ 
periments. While the Jonathan has the highest quality, it is not hardy at the North. 
Perhaps the best we can do is to obtain full Jonathan flavor with a somewhat smaller 
size of fruit. The future will tell. 
Three-fourths Apple; one-fourth Siberian Crab 
S. D.Bona Crabapple - Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Jonathan x Silvia 
crab pollen. A sister to the S, D. Bison. Fruit l| inches across, lj- inches deep, 
color an attractive deep rich solid polished red, nearly black red; flesh yellow, 
rich mild pleasant subacid, cooks easily with red sauce, of very good quality. Late 
fall or early winter. Tree a heavy bearer. There are several more seedlings of this 
same pedigree, all of good quality. Scions only 50 cents per foot. 
S. D. Ben Crabapple - Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Jonathan x Tony 
crab. This makes it -g Jonathan, J baccata, \ MacMahon White apple. Fruit 2 inches 
across, nearly all covered with red, striped and mixed over yellow ground with white 
bloom. Flesh juicy, pleasant lively subacid, cooks up tender into light red sauce 
of good quality. Season evidently all winter. Scions only. 50 cents per foot. 
S. D. Bison Crabapple - The Bison Crab was introduced in 1935. The name is now 
changed to South Dakota Bison to distinguish it from a Canadian apple seedling. It is 
large, red, and of excellent quality. Pedigree:: Jonathan apple x Sylvia crab, making 
it one-half Jonathan apple, one-fourth Siberian crab, Pyrus baccata, and one-fourth 
Yellow Transparent apple. The tree is a very heavy bearer. Under orchard conditions 
this may turn out to be almost an apple in size. 
One-half Apple; one-half Siberian Crab 
In S. D. Macata and S. D. Jonsib, the Siberian crab is the pollen parent. In 
most of the older hybrids the Siberian crab is the seed parent. I have the theory 
that larger fruit is to be expected from hybrids with the Siberian crab as the pollen 
or male parent. Scions 50 cents per foot. 
S. D. Macata Crabapple - Offered for the first time. Pedigree: McIntosh x P. 
baccata pollen. Fruit If inches across. A brilliant polished red all over; flesh 
rich sub-acid, cooking up tender into a light colored pleasant flavor sauce. Fruit 
1~| inches across, 1 l/8 inches deep. 
S. D. Jonsib Crabapple - Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Jonathan apple 
x Irkutsk, Siberia, Pyrus baccata pollen. Fruit 1 3/4 x 1 5/16 inches. A beautiful 
brilliant rich red, striped, splashed and mixed over yellow ground, with white bloom. 
An attractive color. Season late fall. Flesh brisk, subacid with sweet aftertaste. 
In cooking, the sauce is light red, of good flavor, the slices are tender but retain 
their shape in cooking. 
