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Xermak pear - Introduced 1939. Seckel x East Siberian pear (Pyrus 
Ussuriensis). In this pear hardiness and resistance to blight is combined with 
good quality. In the fruit, the Seckel, the highest in quality of all pears 
grown in Americz, a a pe superb quality, and in tree the Siberian pear gives 
extreme hardiness. Resistance to fire-blight comes from both parents. The 
fruit of the original “ean much crowded in the seedling rows, is about the same 
size as Seckel, the seed parent. Season, early October. (Yermek, the Cossack 
conqueror of Siberia about 400 years ago). 
Okolo pear - Introduced 1940. Pyrus ovoidea (Simonii) seedling. Fruit 
2 x ai sa obtuse pyriform. Clear light yellow, with multitude of minute 
dark russet dots. Stem long, stout. Flesh white, firm, juicy; flavor delicious. 
Tree a heavy bearer. (Okolo: the Russian for "round") Scions only, $1.00 
per foot. 
Older Introductions in Plums 
A few trees of each of the following plum and plum hybrids are offered in 
response to an increasing demand for some of the best of the earlier 
introductions. They are described in S. Dak. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bulletins 224, 309, 
339. One-year buds on native plum, each 50¢. 
Assiniboin Kahinta Opata Tecumseh 
Champa Kamdesa Oziya Teton 
Cikana Kiowa Pembina Toka 
Enopa Kota pano be. Tokata 
Ktopa + Mana Sansoto Tom Thumb 
Ezapten « Oacoma Sapa Wachanpa 
Hanska | Ojibwa okuye Wastesa 
Huya Oka Stanopa Winnipeg 
Kaga Okiya Tawena Wohanke. 
Yuteca Zekanta 
New Hardy Roses 
Of the Pax thornless Roses described in the 1940 spring list, eight plants 
of Pax Iola and twelve plants of Pax Apollo are available. Of the Lillian 
Gibson rose, eleven plants are available. All own-rooted plants, price each. “1. 
? £ Bree 
Fax Tola rose - ahah ed A928 5 eam hd fSnci Bohm (a climbing rose 
Heres a | pea uel ees anal pink. A a grower, evidently of the 
pillar type. The shoots close to the ground also full of bloom. Hundreds of 
flowers oh inches across in large clusters. Petals ancut 25. The older 
flowers are nearly white; cH two colors make the bush a taing of beauty. 
The stems of strong growth are all smooth; the rachis or midrio of the leaf is 
bristly, but a pleasing Nigbninas bouquet can be cut fron the side shoots. 
Pax Apollo rose ~ Jntroduced 1938. Pedigree: Rosa sempervirens pallida 
x pollen of Resa blenda wild rose from southern Manitoba. <A wonderful pro- 
ducer of deen pink flowers in large clusters in June. Petals about 14. Tall, 
upright, 7-foot dark red stems. The wood is smeoth; on strong shoots the 
midrib of the leaf is bristly. 
Lillian Gibson rose - Introduced 1938. Pedigree: Wild rose (Rosa blanda) 
from Wilton, nortiern Minnesota x Red Star (a red Hybrid Tea) pollen. This 
rose turns out to be very productive ; a strong sprout planted 1938 bore 31 
flowers in 1939 and about 237 in 1940. This rose was the sensation at the 
Sioux Falls Show, June, 1937. The flowers are large, double, over 40 petals, 
a beautiful lively rose pink, about three inches across with delightful rich 
fragrance. A very abundant bloomer in late June. Plant of strong upright 
sturdy growth. The plant is sparsely thorny on young shoots, with scattered 
thorns on the old shoots. 
