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CARL A. HANSEN NURSERY, BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA 
HANSEN IMPROVED 
Easy to Grow— 
Good Flavor^Highly Productive-Hardy 
The Development of Years 
DR. N. E. HANSEN 
Who has been improving these 
Bush Cherries for over 
forty years. 
Hansen Improved Bush Cherries are the result of 
over forty years of untiring selection work by the 
great plant wizard, Prof. N. E. Hansen at South Da¬ 
kota State College, Brookings. He has developed 
what was formerly the rather small, little known, 
western South Dakota Sand Cherry, into a fruit of 
large size, desirable taste, good habits, wonderful 
bearing, and beautiful in 
flower, fruit and foliage. 
Fruit of Good Quality 
The fruit is good to eat from the bush, is fine in 
sauce and makes a wonderful jam of the most superb 
flavor and rich color imaginable. 
Grows Bush-Like 
Though the fruit of this cherry much resembles a 
plum in size and shape, the plant itself grows in a 
bush form, branching and bearing from the ground 
up. Usually bears the year after planting. It al¬ 
ways retains its dwarf stature which is of fine value 
for planting in the garden, as it doesn't take up near 
the room of an ordinary plum tree and yet often 
bears more. The bushes should be planted 2 to 4 
feet apart, in rows 4 to 6 feet apart, 25 or more to 
every home garden. 
Beautiful in Spring Flower. 
Beautiful in Plantings 
In landscape planting a few of the bush cherries are very desirable as 
they are dwarf and 
bushy, and a great aid 
in foundation covering. 
While the foliage itself, a 
beautiful silvery green, 
turning to a rich red and 
gold in fall, adds a very 
desirable color touch to 
landscape plantings. The 
profuse masses of white 
flowers in early spring, 
completely covering the 
bushes, are a glorious 
sight. The fruit later is 
ornamental as well as 
Dark Fruit and Beautiful Silver Foliage. USeful. 
A Desirable Good Fruit and Ornamental for Extensive Planting 
