FARIBAULT , MINN. 
, Inc . 
OKA CHERRY 
From Prof. Hansen, the Plant Wizard of South Dakota 
The trees are perfectly hardy in North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, 
North Michigan, and all over Minnesota, wherever the hardy fruits 
can be grown. 
The trees begin to bear as two-year-olds right in the nursery rows and properly fertilized 
will bear heavy crops every year. The fruit is round, averages 1'/* inches in diameter, is black 
on the outside with a rich juicy red-purple flesh that is very sweet. 
The trees are small, so small in fact, that 6 
or more can be grown in a back yard, interfer¬ 
ing little with other things. Being a sand cherry 
hybrid it requires some other plum to fertilize 
its blossoms so that it will bear fruit. 
OKA- The Best of All 
Hardy Sweet Cherries 
All who have had the pleasure of eat¬ 
ing this wonderful new plum-cherry hybrid 
are perfectly agreed that it’s the sweetest 
and finest of all hardy cherries. And by 
hardy we mean a cherry that is hardy in 
Minnesota. 
In 1932 Oka Cherry was the only new 
fruit added by the Minnesota State Horti¬ 
cultural Society to its fruit list for planting 
all over the state. 
We find the Rocky Mountain Cherry best for 
fertilizing purposes. One Rocky Mountain 
Cherry should be purchased to go with each 6 
Oka Cherry trees. 
A|/A rUCDDY is beginning to be 
V-nCRKI planted by orchardists 
in large quantities and is proving profitable in a 
commercial way. Large fruit growing on small 
trees makes easy picking. 
OKA Cherry Price 
Each 
Per 5 
Per 10 
2 to 3 ft. 
.#0.50 
#2.00 
#3.50 
3 to 4 ft. 
.60 
2.55 
4.85 
4 to 5 ft. 
.75 
3.05 
5.90 
5 to 6 ft. 
. 1.25 
5.00 
Cooper Cherry 
Prof. A. F. Yeager has just left 
the North Dakota Station, but while 
there wrote: “Cooper is a seedling 
of Compass Cherry. The fruit is 
considerably larger than Compass, 
round in shape and pink when ripe. 
When cooked, the thin peeling be¬ 
comes inconspicuous so that the 
canned product resembles the white 
sweet cherry more nearly than any¬ 
thing I could compare it to.” 
2 to 4 ft. trees, 85c 
Mordena Cherry 
A new cherry coming to us from 
the Morden Experimental Station, 
Morden, Manitoba, Canada, which 
is 500 miles north of here. It is 
wonderful to know that cherries, 
better than the Compass, can be 
grown up in Manitoba. Earlier to 
ripen, much hardier, and a better 
fruit than Compass. Just the cherry 
for the northern line of the U. S. 
Should be grown in bush form. 
2 to 4 ft. trees, 85c 
Splendid Plum 
Special 
We have grown some nice 
2- to 3-foot Splendid Plums 
to make a special offer on. 
They are nice trees but in 
a mailing-out size. 
Beautiful little trees: 
2 to 3 feet, 2 for #1.00; 
5 for #2.00; 12 for #4.00. 
Postpaid 
Oka Cherries 
ROCKY 
MOUNTAIN 
CHERRY 
Rocky Mountain Cherry is a small bush 
cherry growing wild in the western Da¬ 
kotas. In the natural state the fruit is about 
J /2 in. in diameter. Under cultivation and 
selected out for the best varieties it grows 
larger and many of these selected varieties 
make a fine fruit for jams and jellies. The 
bushes grow to a height of 4 to 6 feet and 
are just black with fruit. It makes a great 
fruit for the children to run to. Some 
companies sell the bushes for hedge pur¬ 
poses. It is a perfect fertilizer for the 
OKA Cherry. 
Nanking Cherries 
NANKING CHERRY 
fPrunus Tomentosa) 
Something entirely new. A very ornamental spreading 
shrub or low growing tree (can be kept in either form), 
covered in early spring before the leaves appear with 
masses of bloom. Pink in bud, the tiny flowers open a 
pure white and the contrast between white petals and 
bright red calyx is very noticeable. The short-stemmed 
cherry-like fruit, a rich scarlet, ripens in June and is both 
good to eat and very decorative. It makes a beautiful 
shrub to plant where an early blooming large shrub is de¬ 
sired and it produces in abundance a crop of delicious fruit 
good to eat from the hand, that makes beautiful rich red 
jellies and jams, and a good wine. 
Select bushes, 18 to 24 in., 35c each; 
4 for #1.00. 2 to 3 ft., 50c; 2 for 75c. 
Selected strain: 2 to 3 ft., 60c; 6 for #3.30. 3 to 4 ft., 
75c; 6 for #4.20. 
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