HANSEN IMPROVED 
Easy to Grow--- 
Good Flavor~Highly Productive-Hardy 
The Development of 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 Dakota State College, 
Brookings. He has developed what was formerly 
the rather small, little known, western South Dakota 
Dwarf Bush Cherry, into a fruit of large size, desir¬ 
able 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 won¬ 
derful jam of the most superb flavor and rich color 
imaginable. 
Grows Bush-Like. Though the fruit of this cherry resembles a cherry 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 always 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. 
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 founda¬ 
tion covering. 
The foliage, a beautiful silvery green, turns to a rich red and gold in fall, 
adding a very desirable color touch to landscape plantings. 
The profuse masses of 
white flowers in early 
spring, completely cover¬ 
ing the bushes, are a 
glorious sight. The fruit 
later is ornamental as 
well as useful. 
A Desirable Good Fruit and Ornamental for Extensive Planting 
[ 10 ] 
FRUITS IN ONE 
YEAR! 
EXTRA SPECIAL 1 1 1 
Large Three-Year Old 
BUSH CHERRIES 
Ready to Bear This Year 
50c Each; 3 for $1.25; 
6 for $2.00 
POSTPAID TO YOU 
N. E. Hansen With Branches of the Hansen Bush Cherry. 
