Wato Golden Currant - Offered far the first time. Fruit pleasant, mild, acid, 
9/16 inch across, light orange yellow. Skin transparent, shining. Grown from native 
golden currants gathered at Deadwood, South Dakota. 
Woga Golden Currant - Offered for the first time. A heavy crop in 1937 of yellow 
shining fruit, 5/8 inch across, pleasant acid. Descended from native golden currants 
gathered at Cottonwood, South Dakota. 
Pawnee Golden Currant - Offered for the first time. The shining black fruit is 
3/4 inch across, good quality. The shrub is of strong growth and a heavy bearer. 
Pedigree: The fourth generation from the Crandall grown among many native South Dak¬ 
ota seedlings of Golden Currant. 
Twelve Hardy Apricots 
Described in last spring’s list, also in S. D. Bulletin 309 which is sent free to 
applicants. These apricots were grown from native seed that I gathered in the Harbin 
region of North China. A region with -50° Fahrenheit winter cold. These 12 Manchu 
apricots were widely distributed, literally from coast to coast, and are in extensive 
propagation by western nurserymen. There is a vast market open to good hardy apricots. 
There are only 4 trees available of the the Sino, which are reserved to make up com¬ 
plete sets. Of the other 11 varieties, one year trees, buds or grafts on native plum 
stock, are available at the same price as last year, one dollar each. Order as early 
as possible to get the varieties you want, or leave the choice to me. 
Grapes hardy without winter protection are greatly needed in the prairie North¬ 
west. In South Dakota Experiment Station Bulletin No. 224 is listed the 32 varieties 
of such grapes introduced in 1925. They are for regions where the standard grapes 
are not hardy. Four of these are offered in the following list as strong transplanted 
vines. Price, each one dollar. 
Note: The North Dakota wild grape in the following list was collected at Bis¬ 
marck, North Dakota. 
Grape Vines 
Mandan Grape - Pedigree: Wilder x North Dakota wild. An early and very heavy 
bearer, the first of all of these hybrids to bear. Fruit black, one-half inch in 
diameter; good flavor. Seeds separate very readily from the flesh. Number of vines , 
available - 14, 
Siposka Grape - Pedigree: Lady x North Dakota wild. Large, black grape; five- 
eigths inch in diameter. Number of vines available - 11. 
Azita Grape - Pedigree; Beta x North Dakota wild. Sweet, medium, five-eighths 
inch in diameter; flavor rather wild; strong growth, fair crop. Number of vines 
available - 26. 
Shakoka Grape - Pedigree: Lady x North Dakota wild. Fruit very large, round, 
nearly black, nearly Concord size. Good quality. Seeds separate readily from the 
pulp. Vine, a very strong grower and very heavy bearer* Number of vines available-2. 
A Hardy Perennial Vetch 
In 1913, I found this blue flowered vetch growing on the dry plains at Semipala- 
tinsk, Siberia, a region with only 8 inches rainfall, and with temperature ranging 
from 51 below zero Fahrenheit to 106° above. Here at Brookings, it crowds out Iris 
and other plants in the flower garden and makes a dense growth of foliage every year. 
It is a perennial forage plant worthy of trial. Price: 10 plants for 50 cents. 
Earlier Peonies 
The Peony is our best perennial flower. I have seen it growing wild in many 
places in East Siberia. In the hope of adding a month to the front end of the peony 
season, I have grown several thousand peony seedlings in the course of many years. 
My plan is to hybridize the standard peony varieties with imported early blooming 
primitive species. Some 400 seedlings were selected the past season for further 
trial. Some of them are extremely early, others intermediate in season. The earliest 
of these new peonies may be single flowered, and hence are more for landscape effect: 
The doubles may be later. The coming season I hope to determine definitely the rela¬ 
tive blooming dates of all these new seedling peonies. 
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