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ALL ORNAMENTAL—SOME FRUIT BEARING 
M UCH has been written about the Japanese Flowering 
Cherries planted about the basin in Washington, D. C. 
The beauty of this fine planting has not been exagger- 
ated. I have seen it many times when the trees were covered 
with their delicate bloom. 
But these Japanese Cherries are not hardy in Minnesota and 
throughout the Northwest. However, a fine line of Flowering 
Crabs has now been introduced and in comparing a planting 
of Flowering Crabs when in full bloom and one of Flowering 
Cherries, I should say that they are equal in beauty. But in 
hardiness, the Flowering Crabs are superior. We have sent 
them all over the United States and have had excellent reports 
from as far west as the state of Washington, as far south as 
Georgia, as far north as Winnipeg, Canada, and east to the 
New England States. 
The Flowering Crabs are not only beautiful when in bloom, 
but many varieties produce fruit. The fruit from some varieties 
is excellent for jelly, jam, and pickling. The fruit from other 
varieties makes fine food for the birds late in the fall. It is also 
very ornamental, for the bright little apples hang on the limbs 
as thick as gooseberries on their branches. 
Flowering Crabs when grown in a rich soil attain a height 
of about 20 feet and with the exception of the Beauty, a spread 
of about 18 to 20 feet. 
Prices of all Crabs: 3 to 4 ft., $1.00; 4 to 5 ft., $1.25, including Red Silver 
BEAUTY 
Many people are looking for just such a Crab as Beauty Crab. The 
tree is the most upright growing Apple or Crab tree we know. We have 
a specimen in our private garden that stands about 18 feet high with a 
limb spread of not more than 7 feet. In growth it resembles the Lorn' 
bardy or Bolleana poplar and will fit into a planting where either of 
these trees would. It is a tree one would like to plant against the corner 
of a house or as a sentinel or accent tree along the back line of the yard. 
Besides being a pretty tree, it bears great quantities of brilliant deep 
red Crabs an inch in diameter, which are beautiful on the tree and also 
make wonderful sauce. 
ELEYI 
Many of the European and Asiatic Flowering Crabs are not desirable, 
but this one has done so well with us even in our cold climate that we 
are keeping it in our list. The flowers are single and a dark pink in 
color. The fruit which follows is a very bright red. The foliage in the 
spring is a peculiar orange-red, very brilliant and extremely noticeable 
and continues so during the entire summer. When the spring growing 
season is over, the foliage takes on a very rich maroon greenish tinge. 
5 to 6 ft., $1.50 
THE DOLGO CRAB 
The Dolgo is known as the great dual purpose Crab. The trees, which 
seldom grow over 12 feet high, are very shapely and neat in appearance 
and develop into a beautiful small lawn tree. It is extremely hardy and 
after it has attained its growth will last for many years. In the spring it 
is one solid mass of large white blooms, which are followed by a great 
crop of Crab apples. These Crabs are a brilliant red about an inch in 
diameter and an inch and a half long. The fruit is so brilliant in color 
and so abundant on the tree that it makes a wonderful ornamental sight. 
The fruit makes up into jelly of the finest flavor and a beautiful red 
color. This Crab is not grown for its ornamental qualities alone but is 
grown commercially for the fruit which readily sells at a big price. 
One of our customers from Washington, D. C., writes us: “The Dolgo, 
when in fruit, is the most beautiful thing I ever saw in the line of a 
Flowering Crab.” The Dolgo is now being planted in northern orchards 
for the fruit, which sells for high prices. 
FLAME 
This is the sensational new flowering Crab recently named and sent 
out by the Minnesota State Fruit Farm. It is a beautiful slender-limbed, 
very graceful, upright-growing tree. This small tree is especially attrac¬ 
tive in the fall when every branch is literally covered with great ropes 
of its small brilliantly colored red fruit. Those who named it say the 
name is appropriate as the ripening fruit resembles one great flame of 
fire. It is also good for jelly and canning. We wish to emphasize the 
tremendous number of little fiery red Crabs which this tree carries when 
in fruit, making it not only of the greatest value as an ornamental tree 
but extremely valuable for the fruit itself. Blossoms Crabapple-pink. 
HOPA CRAB 
From a purely ornamental standpoint the Hopa is without doubt the 
most beautiful pink Flowering Crab that can be grown in the North. 
It is perfectly hardy anywhere in our state. It develops into a beautiful, 
graceful, medium-sized tree that is an ornament anywhere it may be 
placed. The bark is a rich dark blackish red. The buds and foliage are 
a noticeable reddish purple, and the tree, when in bloom, is covered 
with large single deep rose-colored blossoms which continue long on 
the tree, to be followed by quantities of small reddish fleshed attractive 
fruit which makes a good jelly. 
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SPECIAL CRAB OFFER 
Collection 1: 1 each of all 6 Flowering 
Crabs in a 3- to 4-ft. grade for $5.50. 
1 each of all 6 varieties in a 4- to 5-ft. 
grade for $6.75. 
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