FARIBAULT. MINN. 
HANSENS 
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BUSH 
CHERRIES 
The Cherry for the Smoll City Yard 
ABSOLUTELY HARDY . . . 
WILL GROW ANYWHERE 
Prof. N. E. Hansen spent many years in improving the western South 
Dakota Sand Cherry from a small fruit of little value into a large fruit, 
desirable to eat and wonderful for the jam and jelly made from it. 
Prof. Hansen experimented with hundreds of thousands of seedlings 
and from all these tests extending over a period of about 40 years 
selected out a doz,en or so varieties which he thought good enough to 
name. From this selection, some four years ago, we purchased stock of 
what we considered the 10 best varieties. The fruits vary in size from 
9/16 of an inch up to an inch in diameter. They also vary in color, from 
a greenish yellow, overcast with red, through bright red, to dark, deep 
blackish red. 
SMALL, BUSH-LIKE IN GROWTH 
The plants develop rapidly into nice symmetrical bushes about two 
to three feet in diameter and about the same in height. For fruiting they 
should stand IVz feet apart with rows four feet apart. 
REAL ORNAMENTAL BUSHES 
Though generally grown for the fruit, these cherries are real orna¬ 
mental bushes. The bush is very graceful and works nicely into orna¬ 
mental plantings. The bush is very attractive throughout the year and 
especially so during the fall when the clean silvery green leaves turn to a 
rich bright red. 
In the spring the little bushes are absolutely covered with beautiful 
white bloom before the leaves appear and make a very pleasing sight. 
Hansen's 
Bush 
Cherry 
ABSOLUTELY 
HARDY 
The original par¬ 
ents of the varieties 
we send out grew 
wild on the prairies 
of western South 
Dakota. This has im¬ 
parted to these sorts 
a hardiness which 
makes it possible to 
grow them clear across the most 
northern states from Maine to 
Washington and far north into 
southern Canada. 
PLANT SEVERAL TOGETHER 
As a rule these Hansen Bush Cherries are not self-fertile. Several 
kinds must be planted together so as to fertilize one another. Because 
of this, we do not sell single plants but offer them in collections of 
different kinds, our selection. Each bush will be named and labeled. 
We have had many inquiries from our customers who ordered a few 
varieties last spring who now wish the entire collection. We can supply 
the balance of the collection if you send us a list of the ones received 
last spring. 
Price of Hansen’s Named Bush Cherries in Assortment 
3 for #1.85; 6 for #3.50; 12 for #6.50, Prepaid 
THESE ARE ALL BUDDED BUSHES 
Remember these bushes we offer and send out are not seedling stock 
grown from seed and sent out as Hansen Bush Cherries. They are 
budded trees and in a few cases grafted trees propagated directly from 
the very best varieties selected by Hansen. 
Hansen's Bush Cherry 
THE BROOKS CHERRY 
This new selected sand Cherry comes to us from the Canadian 
Pacific Agricultural Station of Brooks, Alberta, Canada. We heard 
much of this wonderful Cherry and this past year we grew quite a 
stock of the plants, although we had never seen the fruit. Fortu¬ 
nately it was among a planting at Fargo and while I was there last 
summer I saw the bushes in full fruit. To say I was surprised is 
putting it mildly. The bushes were loaded, the fruit a deep black 
in color, and the largest of anything I had ever seen in the Im¬ 
proved Bush Cherry. We measured some of the fruit and it was an 
; nch in diameter and about an inch and a quarter long. The fruit 
is sweet and juicy and fine to eat. 
Our stock is limited and we accept orders for only one Brooks 
Cherry to an order. Must have other Bush Cherries to fertilize it. 
12 to 18 in., 50c; 18 to 24 in., 60c; 2 to 3 ft., #1.00 
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