S. D. Wendel Crabapple - Pedigree: Charlamovsky apple x pollen of a large wild 
crab from Andrew County, Missouri. Offered for the first time. Fruit 1-J x 1 5/16 
inches deep; a brilliant solid bright red all over yellow ground; flesh firm, juicy, 
charp clear acid, not acerb, cooks into red sauce of neutral flavor. Evidently a long 
winter keeper. Scions 50 cents per foot. 
Wa.ubay Crabapple - Introduced 1935. Pedigree: Grimes Golden apple x Mercer Un¬ 
guarded wild crabapple. The first fruits lj inches in diameter, round conical, bril¬ 
liant red, evidently a remarkable all-winter keeper. The Wrubay evidently combines 
the rich, spicy, subacid sweet of the Grimes Golden with the long keeping capacity 
and hardiness of the seedling of the Mercer wild crab. In 1937 Waubay fruit was 1 5/8 
inches across, flesh firm, solid, sweet, cooking into pleasant sweet sauce. An all- 
winter crab. _JLgo.aiL blend of .standard..apple and American wild crab. Scions 50 cents 
per foot. 
Wakpala Apple - Introduced 1928. Pedigree: Mercer crab x Tolmcn Sweet apple 
pollen. Fruit 2 l/8 inches in diameter, yellow striped with red, flavor subacid with 
spicy sweet fragrance. Cooks up quickly into excellent sauce. Season, winter. Price: 
One year gra.fts on Siberian crab stock, each $1.00. 
Natural Hybrids of Wild Crab and Apple 
These large-fruited American wild crabs aj?e usually classified as Pyrus Soulardi, 
and are regarded by botanists as natural hybrids of Pyrus Ioensis and Pyrus Mnlus. 
Scions, 50 cents per foot. 
Forest King Crabapple - A wild crab from northern Illinois. Tree had a heavy 
crop in 1937 following the drouth year 1936. Fruit green, 2 3/8 inches across, 2j 
inches deep, weight 5} ounces. Useful for hybridizing. Offered for the first time 
in these lists. The Forest King should be in the collection along with Mercer, 
Missouri, Giant, and other large crabs. Each $1.00. 
Mercer Crabapple - Found growing wild near Sherrard, Mercer County, Illinois, 
about 50 years ago. Described in S. D. Bulletin 224. Fruit up to 2 and 5/8 inches 
in diameter. My Anoka apple, noted as the earliest bearing apple in the world, came 
from seed of the Mercer. Available stock, 32 one-year grafts m Siberian crab stock, 
each $1.00. 
Missouri Crabapple - Found about 50 years ago near Kansas City, Missouri. Des¬ 
cribed in S. D. Bulletin 224. Fruit roundish, 2-§ inches in diameter, truncated, reg¬ 
ular, rich golden yellow all over. Its native acerbity is considerably toned down, 
but it is still a wild crab. Worthy of preservation as a curiosity and as a basis 
for further work. Available stock, 13 one-year grafts, each $1.00. 
George Miller Crabapple - Offered for the first time. Found by George Miller, 
near his home at Muscatine, Iowa, Not yet fruited at Brookings. A few one-year 
grafts, each - $1.00. 
Cooking Test of Frozen Wild Crabs - Hundreds of cooking tests have been made of 
wild crabapples in the course of these experiments. About two bushels of the Forest 
King head been left to freeze solid in an outdoor cellar, to be seeded and stratified 
as other work permitted. These frozen fruits were always discarded after seeding. 
But in experimental work it is sometimes best to see what is on the other side of the 
hill, so last week, January 18, a cooking test was made of these frozen crabs. The 
acerbity was greatly modified and reduced, and the slices were tender and kept their 
shape, instea.d of breaking down into a mush. The sauce was of quite acceptable qual¬ 
ity. Further tests, I hope, will show that these wild American crabs con be frozen 
solid and used as needed for cooking all winter. The early Indians preserved the 
fruit in caches in the ground over winter. It was the only apple the Indians knew 
before the white man brought the standard apple from Europe. 
The fruit of these wild crabs easily keeps a year in a common cellar. One of my 
hybrids, the Chinook, was picked September 3, 1927, was kept in an outdoor cellar and 
kept until May 14, 1929, a period of 20 months and 11 days. The fruit was still in 
good condition and when cooked made a good pleasant flavored sauce. 
Root-grafts of Wild Crabapples 
Experimenters with the indigenous American wild crabapples Pyrus Ioensis, will be 
interested in the following list, all 1 and 2 year root-grafts. For descriptions, 
see S. D. Bulletin 224 and 309. Number available at 50 cents per tree: Wanblee 7; 
Forest King 1; Chinook 7; Caputa Crab 7; Kola 10; Izo Crab 5; Amsib Crab 2; Wakonda 1. 
Forest King, Izo and Wakmdc crab are on apple stock, the others on Siberian crab 
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