Oacoraa - A Delicious Nev: Native Plum 
First introduced spring 1958. Fi’uit red, round, 1 5/8 inches across, of ver^' 
best quality eaten fresh or as preserves. Skin thin, dissolves in cooking. The pit 
is rather small, round, flattened with smooth rounded edges and no sharp points. The 
high quality of this pure native South Dakota plum should quickly make it a general 
favorite. The tree is perfectly hardy and a heavy bearer. The original tree of 
Oacoma was found a few miles west of Oacoma in I^'man County and v^as first sent out 
as South Dakota No. Ik in 1954. This is nov; named Oacoma. No matter how ma.ny hybrid 
plums are introduced, some of the northern pure native plioms should be in every 
orcha.rd to provide abundant pollination of the blossoms. Many people like the 
stronger flavor of the native plum, especially for preserves a.nd jam. One-year 
grafted trees of Oacoraa plum, each $1.00 
Note : A ten-year test in the State Orchard at Watertown, on a hill, without protect¬ 
ion, demonstrated very clearly that native South Dakota plums were much hardier than 
native plums from fui'ther South. 
Twelve Hardy Apricots 
These apricots were grovm from native seed that Dr. Ha.nsen gathered in the 
Harbin region of North China, a. region with -50*^ Fahrenheit winter cold. These 12 
Manchurian apricots v/ere widely distributed, literally from coast to coast, and are 
in extensive propagation by many nurserymen. There is a vast market open to good 
hardy apricots. There are only 7 trees available of the Sing, which are reserved to 
make up complete sets. Of the other 11 varieties, one year trees, buds or grafts on 
native plum stock, are available at one dollar each. Order as early as possible to 
get the varieties you want, or lea.ve the choice to us. 
For the convenience of the reader, the following descriptions of these apricots 
is reprinted from S. D. Bulletin 509 which is sent free to applicants. These original 
trees again bore a heavy crop in 1938. 
Twelve Named Varieties of the Manchu Apricots 
Manchu - Large yellow fruity hec.Yy crop. Fresh fruit No. 1 in size and quality. 
Cooking test: cooks up into pale yellow good qujility sauce. Apparently the largest 
fruit in this lot of seedlings. The name Manchu apricot is now reserved for it. 
Mandarin - Fruit large, rich yellow color; one of the best in quality, fresh 
or when cooked. 
Chow - Tree productive; fruit large, good eating. Cooking test: pale yellow 
sauce of good queility. 
Sing - (Chinese for apricot.) Tree productive, fruit large. Cooking test: 
good rich orange yellow sauce, flavor stronger than some of the others. 
Ninguta - Fruit large yellow with red blush. Crop very heav^^. Season late, 
first week in August. Fresh fruit very mild, one of the mildest and best. 
Tola - Large, freestone. Peakes excellent quality sauce. 1955 crop very 
heavy. One of the best. Season early. August 1955. 
Anda - Tree productive, freestone of good size. Season late. In cooking, stays 
firm and does not cook up. One of the very best in qurlity. 
Zun - Quality of fruit, nearly excellent. Pit small, round freestone. 
Sino - Heav^' crop, fruit small, on 8 foot crowded tree. Cooking test: 
excellent flavor. 
Lalin - Fruit large, yellow with red bush. Fresh fruit good quality. Tree, a 
heavy crop. No cooking test. Season early. 
Hillnn - Verj' neavy" crop of large fruit. Season early. Cooking test; makes 
good flavored sauce. 
Sansin - Heavy crop of large fruit. Fresh fruit of excellent quality, ma.king a 
rich oronge-yellovj sauce. 
