Three-fourths Appl e; oiie-fourth Wild Crab 
The backcross of the loensis x Malus hybrids to Malus give large size and 
good quality. In the language of the stocknnui, "the second top-cross" gives the size 
and quality. 
Nebo apple - Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Alexander apple x 
Mercer wild crab pollen. Fruit 5^ inches across, round, regular, truncated, slightly 
tapering; basin narrow, shallow, smooth; cavity obtuse. Color red, striped, grayed, 
mixed and splashed. Flesh pleasant subacid, juicy, cooks up easily into excellent 
sauce. The tree is productive. The largest so far of all these apple seedlings. 
(Nebo: the Russian for "sky"). 
The Alexander was introduced into England from Russia in 1817 and later from 
there to America, the year unknow. It is the Emperor Alexander, one of the largest 
of all apples, and classified as a member of the Aport group of Russian apples. The 
huge Wolf River from Wisconsin is no doubt a seedling of the Alexander. Scions only, 
per foot, 50 cents. 
Wakpala apple - Introduced 1928. A good sized apple, 3/4 tame apple, l/4 
wild crab. Pedigree: Mercer crab x Tolman Sweet apple pollen. In 1939 the fruit 
was 2.5 inches across; color yellow lightly striped with red; flesh white subacid 
with spicy sweet fragrance. Cooks up quickly into excellent light yellow sauce; 
the slices retain their shape in cooking. Season winter. Scions only, per foot, 
50 cents. 
American Wild Crabapple Hybrids 
The following tress are all one-year-old root-grafts on Siberian crabapple 
(Alexis) roots. Price: one-year-old root-grafts of any variety in the following 
list, each $1.00. The root-grafts are available in the follov/ing numbers: 
Watepa---82 Wiyuta-50 
Wamdesa-17 Wotanda-75 
Watopa Crabapple - Introduced 1939. Pedigree: Elk River, Minnesota, wild 
crab X Jonathan apple pollen. A sister to Wamdesa introduced in 1938, but larger, 
the fruits in 1938 being 2 7/8 inches across. Fruit regular, round, truncated, 
greenish yellow with much thinly washed and striped red over green and much green 
out over base (stem end); skin unctuous; basin, smooth, abrupt, calyx segments very 
small, closed. An all-the-year keeper. Tree very productive. Flavor mildly acid 
to neutral in the cooked fruit. 
Wamdesa Crabapple - Introduced 1938. Pedigree: Elk River, Minnesota wild 
crab X Jonathan apple pollen. Fruit 2 inches in diameter, thin solid red all over; 
dots large, russet, many areolar; unctuous; basin deep, smooth, abrupt. Flesh 
juicy acid, acerb, cooks up tender into pleasant light colored, mildly acid and 
acerb sauce. An all-year keeper. A very heavy bearer. 
Wiyuta Crabapple - Introduced 1939. Pedigree: Nevis, Minnesota wild crab 
( Pyrus loensis) x Wolf River apple pollen. This is of the same pedigree as Wetonka, 
Wahoya and Wakaga described in previous lists. Fruit 2-| inches across; 2 inches 
deep, round, slightly truncated, regular; much shaped and marbled red over greenish 
yellow, cavity (stem end) with much green out over base. A great improvement, when 
cooked, over the Nevis wild crab. Season evidently all winter and spring. Fruits 
of Wetonka after freezing solid until late in January this year, when cooked had 
last the acerbity and were of neutral quality, 
V/otanda Crabapple - Introduced 1939. The largest of several seedlings of 
the same pedigree: Nevis, northwest Minnesota, wild crab x Northvrestern Greening 
apple pollen. Fruit 2-^ x 2 inches. Very regular, oblate, unctous, yellowish green. 
Calyx segments very small, closed. Fruit an all-the-year keeper; heavy for its size, 
one fruit weighed a little over foiir oimces. When cooked, the flavor is mild. Tree 
productive. 
SElVtLA apple - Offered for the first time. The next largest apple in 1939. 
Pedigree: an open-pollinated seedling of Wolf River apple. Fruit very large, 3 
inches in diameter, oblate with red stripes with mixed -and solid red over yellow 
ground, with grayish net-veining. Basin smooth, abrupt, narrow; cavity acute, narrov/ 
russeted. Flesh pleasant subacid. When propagated and under orchard conditions 
probably the fruit will be larger than tliree inches. Excellent qmlity sauce. 
(Semla: the Russian for "family"). Scions only, per foot, 50 cents. 
LINA apple - Introduced 1933. A seedling of Malinda. If a late yellow 
apple is desired, the Lina, a seedling of Malinda, should be tested. Fruit 2^ inches 
across, somewhat conical, truncated, good juicy subacid. It is shaped much like 
Malinda, but no corrugations in basin or blossom end. A good crop in 1939. Scions 
only, per foot, 50 cents. 
