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NORTHERN PLANT NOVELTIES FOR 1942 
Department of Horticulture, South Dakota State College 
and Agriculturel Experiment Station 
Brookings, South Dakota, January 26, 1942 
Total 4 pages 
This department does not conduct a commeréial nursery, but propagates and dis- 
tributes new varieties, either originated in this department or imported, Improvement 
in size and quality has been observed each year since 1895 in the many acres of seed- 
ling fruits. The work has been honored by extensive propagation and planting of many 
of the new varieties, all originated or improved by Dr. N, E, Hansen, 
Meny new seedling fruits, roses, other ornamentals and vegetables are’ corin™ on, 
vhich will be distributed when ready, ‘Some of the material in this list is offer 3 
orimarily for distribution to plant-breeders to help in the work of improving hardy 
fruits anc ornamentals elsewhere, 
Terms: Terms are cash with order, For South Dakota orders add two percent for 
State Retail Sales Tax. The money received makes it possible to do the work on a 
larger scale than would otherwise be possible. It is important to order promptly, 
as the supply of plants is limited. Orders for scions should be received early, by 
March first if possible, 
Special Notes: 
1. there are no propagation restrictions on any of these new varieties. 
2, Experiment Stations can ottain adequate support for researeh work only 
if proper credit is given for all successful experiments, Giving due 
recognition to the source of any horticultural novelty will aid the 
nurseryman as well as the originator, To conceal the source, hurts 
both, 
5, Experiment stetions, nurserymen, and others who have facilities for 
experiments with fruits on a large seale can send for a miscellaneous 
nursery surplus list of fruits and ornamentals, 

THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES ARE OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
- A rédflesh apple of commercial size, 
« A hardy double thornless red rose, 
- & 4, Two new hardy pears resistant to fire blight. 
- A red crabapple following Dolgo in season, 
. A dwarf Siberian crabapple, bearing fruit at five feet. 
» Two 3-species crabapples,. 
-' A red all-winter crabappte. 
A RED-FLESH APPLE OF COMMERCIAL SIZE 
Almata apple. Offered for the first time. Fruit a solid brilliant red; form 
round conical, truncated, regular. Flesh bright red throughout, juicy pleasant 
subacid, Season probably winter. In 1941, the first year of bearing, the fruit of 
Almata was 2 3/8 inches across by 2 inches deep. Pedigree: (Beautiful Arcade apple 
x Fluke No. 38 crab) x Redflesh crab apple pollen, Oye year trees of Almata apple 
on Siberian Crab stocks were sent out for preliminary trial spring 1938, bofore the 
original tree had fruited., (Almata: from Alma Ata, Kazakstan, home of the Redvein). 
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Apples with red flowers skin and flesh will be useful both as an ornamental tree 
on the lawn and for fancy fruit in the orchard. The fruit is red and is good for red 
sauce and red jelly. 
Several years ago I asked John Robertson of Hot Springs, who was testing the 
Redflesh crab, «s to the value of an apple thet was red inside, My Robertson said 
such an spple would outsell any other apple in its season, Mr, Robertson also remark- 
ed that the size of crabs and apples. produced under orchard conditions was about one- 
third larger than thet recorded for them in crowded plantations of the original seed- 
lings. 
Price: Only scions of Almata apple are available for spring 1942, per foot, $1.U’ 
Zitkala: A Hardy Double Thornless Red Rose, Offered for the first time. The 
wood is smooth except for some weak bristles and avery few small thorns near the base 
of the main shoots. Not quite a Pax rose as the Pax roses should be quite thornless, 
lowers & brilliant velvety red, nearly three inches across; with 25 petals. A typ- 
seal Rosa blanda plant of strong upright habit with red bark, After many years this 
is the first "break" away from the light lavender pink of the wild rose, In other 
words to get the blue out of the red, 
(Zitkala; Tho Teton Sioux Ipdien for "bird," Pronounce both "a's" as in 
"father"). Pedigree: Rose. blanda (from Bonanza Springs, western Minnesota, on the 
cast shore of Bigstone Lake) x pollen of the Amadis (or Crimson Boursault), an old 
English rose with deep crimson-purple flowers, 
Price: Only 6-root sprouts available of Zitkala rose fromthe original plant, 
each $10.00. 
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