New NOVELTIES of Note 
FOREWORD 
Many plums and cherries originated and intro¬ 
duced by Prof. N. E. Hansen during his many 
years of work at South Dakota State College, have 
not been distributed as widely as others. This is 
probably due to the fact that nurserymen have 
propagated mainly only a few with which they 
became acquainted in earlier years. It has al¬ 
ways been our plan to keep all of his many vari¬ 
eties under propagation and so each year we 
try to graft a stock of them. 
All of them are outsanding for some reason. 
Some of them may become as famous and popu¬ 
lar as his world famous Waneta, Sapa, Opata and 
Hanska. Each variety was worthy of being recog¬ 
nized and singled out from thousands of plum hy¬ 
brids by Professor Hansen and given a name. 
Each of them will suit a particular need that oth¬ 
ers cannot fill in certain localities. All of them 
should have widespread trial, and the very ones 
you select may be just the fruit you have been 
looking for, for just the particular circumstances 
you have. Tawena Plum 
To help you in selecting some that you might like to try, we are giving a brief descrip¬ 
tion, but it is hard to say all that is good about them in just a few words. 
TOM THUMB CHERRY 
Hardiness, Flavor and Productiveness. 
This new fruit has had a surprisingly quick leap 
to fame. Nothing like it anywhere. Though grow¬ 
ing but knee high can bear a bushel of fruit. Ex¬ 
ceedingly sweet fresh. Delicious in sauce and jams. 
For canning, they are perhaps the best of any of 
the Hansen Hybrid Cherries in preserving the 
shape of the whole fruit, much the same as the 
canned cherries you buy. Fruit good sized. Flesh 
dark reddish purple. Hardy far north into Canada. 
Tom Thumb is a low bush just right for protec¬ 
tion by snow drifts, bearing an abundant crop 
of fruit the year after planting and annually there¬ 
after. Everyone should plant more Tom Thumb 
Cherries for sure results and good quality. 
EZAPTAN PLUM 
Remarkable for extreme earliness and heavy 
bearing. Purple fruit with slight gray bloom. 
Quality delicious from skin to pit. Excellent for 
heavy production of pollen in mixed orchards. 
Perfectly hardy at 40 below. In places where other 
plums do not succeed so well, Ezaptan is usually 
at its best and thrives better than the rest. 
MANA BUSH CHERRY 
A hybrid of the native bush cherry of western 
Manitoba, with the Burbank, a Japanese plum. 
Fruit round, one inch in diameter, with green- 
yellow flesh of pleasant quality that cooks into 
a rich red, good flavored sauce. The name is 
condensed from Manitoba. Especially recommended 
for planting where other cherries do not do so well. 
TECUMSEH PLUM 
A hybrid combining five species which seems to 
carry the good qualities of them all. Plums are 
extra large and of delicious flavor and wonderful 
quality for table use. They ripen very early. 
Many who have grown this one consider it one 
of the finest of all of Professor Hansen's plums. 
TAWENA PLUM 
Giant Size, Early, Heavy Annual Bearing. 
Waneta Plum—perhaps to date the most famous 
of all the Prof. N. E. Hansen plum introductions, 
had to give up some of its popularity when its 
sister Kahinta was introduced, because of Kahin- 
ta's tendency for better annual bearing. 
Now comes Tawena, another full sister of Wa¬ 
neta and Kahinta. Results so far indicate that 
Tawena apparently possesses the best points of 
both, being in size equal to or better than either, 
in flavor somewhat of a mixture of both, and in 
bearing almost a sure annual heavy cropper. The 
tree growth of Tawena is exceptionally fine and it 
makes a sturdy, well branched and balanced tree 
with scarcely any pruning. Hardy into Canada. 
Fruits often up to 2Vs inches in diameter. 
WACHAMPA PLUM 
To fill in your plum season completely, be sure 
to have Wachampa. It comes on in mid-season, 
after the early varieties and before the later kinds 
ripen. Fruit is of medium size but it never fails 
to produce an abundant crop of real good fruit 
that everyone likes. 
CIKANA CHERRY 
One of the earliest of all hybrid cherries. Grows 
on rather a low branched tree which literally 
loads itself to the ground with fruit. The flavor 
of the fruit is sweet, juicy, and with no tartness. 
The skin color is a purplish red and the flesh a 
rich light green which so beautifully colors sauce 
and preserves made from them. 
TOKATA PLUM 
Many consider this the very best in flavor of all 
of Professor Hansen's plums with its extremely frag¬ 
rant skin and flesh of such a rich apricot flavor. 
Fruit often reaches nearly two inches in diameter. 
It is a perfect freestone and has a fine orange 
red skin and flesh. Tokata should be planted near 
a good pollenizer for production of the best crops. 
I 
PRICES FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE PLUMS OR CHERRIES 
All of One Kind or Assorted 
Large Size, Each, 40c; 3 for $1.00; 6 for $1.75; 12 for $3.00. 
SPECIAL ASSORTMENT 
1 Each Kind, $2.00 
I 
I 
[ 5 ] 
