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NEW HARDY PEARS 
The seeson 1941 was marked by an excellent crop of pears, This work of origin- 
ating peers immune or strongly resistant to blight yields results year by year. The 
plan is to combine in one tree the blight immunity of the East Siberian snd North 
China pears, with large size and choice quality of the European standard pears, cs- 
pecially the winter-hardy Russian varieties. Two of the best this season 1941 were 
the Sclo and Nikto, 
Sclo pear. Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Pyrus Sinensis (R. & K, 453) 
x Pyrus ovoidea (Simoni) pollen, The Sand pesr (R. & K. 453) were brought from 
Russia by N. EH, Hansen, and names Russian Sand Pear, Pyrus ovoidea is from Chine 
through the Arnold Arboretum, Fruit 2 x 23 inches, globular acute pyriforr, clear 
yellow, with a multitude of minute dark russet dots. Flesh white, tender, melting. 
A good eating pear, (Selo: the Russian for "villago"). ‘Tree productive. Scions 
per foot, $1.00. 
Nikto Pear, Offerec for the first time. Pedigree: The French pear Marguerite 
Varillet x Pyrus ovoidea of North China. Fruit 1 3/4 inches across, yellow, globular, 
obtuse pyriform, juicy pleasant slightly subacid, quality good. A very heavy crop in 
1940, (Nikto: the Russian for "no one"), Scions per foot, $1.00. 
S. D, MILO CRABAFPLE 
Offered for the first time, A hybrid Siberian crabapple following Dolzo in 
season and of equally brilliant red color, 
Fruit regular oblate, 1 3/8 inch across, Skin polished solid crimson with 
heavy blue bloom, sprinkled with few scattered large yellow dots, Flesh tender, 
white, juicy, sprightly subacid, cooks quickly into bright red sauce. The flesh is 
often tinted with red outside core line. the skin is so intensely red that the color 
is imparted to the sauce, This should be a good market crab. Scions per foot, $1.00. 
TOLSTEME CRABAPPLE 
Offered for the first time. .1 Siberian crabapple received from Ivan Mitchurin 
in the 1934 tour of Russia, That year Ivan Mitchurin celebrated his sixtieth anni- 
versary as the originator of new fruits, and the occasion was a national holiday. It 
was a great joy and inspiration to me to attend this celebration at the home plac ., 
Mitchurinsk (Kaslov on the old maps). Tolsteme is of special interest to fruit 
breeders because of its habit of bearing fruit freely at five fect in height. Fruit 
about one inch across, red over yellow, juicy, sprightly acid. Scions per foot, $1.00. 
INTERNATIONAL OR THREE~SPECIES APPLES 
This refers to the seedlings produced at this station combining the apples of 
three continents: Pyrus Ioensis of North America, Pyrus Malus of Europe, and Pyrus 
baccate of Siberia, northern Asia, The plan is to combine the long winter keeping of 
the “american wild crab with the large good quality fruit of the standard European 
cultivated apple, and the winter-hardiness of the Siberian crab. The varieties have 
the group names Trio, indicating three species, See 339, The following two are now 
added: 

Lec Trio: Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Hamilton Morning Sun; Iowa 
wild crab x Pyrus baccata polien, Fruit 1g inches across, Oblate, yellow bronze red, 
striped end mixed. Flesh white, moderately juicy, sweet; cooks into pleasant sweet 
sauce, Scions per foot, 50 cents, 


Max Trio: Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Mercer wild crab x Pyrus 
baccata pollen. Fruit 1 9/16 inches across, round, truncated, mostly covere¢c with 
Striped and mixed red, Flesh pleasant sweet subacids; cooks up very easily into 
excellent sauce, Season late. Scions per foot, 50 cents, 
A RED ALL-WINTER CRABAPPLE 
South Dakota Winter crabapple. Offered for the first time. Pedigree: Recvein 
"apple (Pyrus Malus Niedzwetzkyana) x Elk River, Minnesota, native wild crab pollen. 
fruit round, truncated, 1 3 4 inches, obscurely angular, light solic red without 
stripes or splashcs. Flesh white, juicy, pleasant sweet subocid with no acerbity. 
After hardy freezing, the fruit retains its firmness and makes a good pleasant flavor- 
ed snucc, The slices retained their shape in cooking, Before freezing, bruised 
fruits remained unchanged a long time. A true hybrid: The Redvein is dominant 
in skin color and mild flavor; the Elk River is dominant in firm flesh, in cylindrical 
tube and marginal stamens, anc above all in long winter-keeping. Apparently the oe De 
Winter is a real all-winter crabapple that will find a welcome where extreme hardiness 
is necessary. Scions per foot 41,00. 
THE HANSEN BUSHCHERRY, 15TH GENERATION 
Tho work improving the native Hansen Bushcherry (Prunus Besseyi) began in 1895, 
Plants of the fifteenth generation under cultivation were grown in 1941 ready for 
transplanting this epringe Some will remain for fruiting this year, Out of 37 acres 
of seedlings of the fourteenth generation, about one thousan¢c plants were saved and 
