


Some Trees Have Tiny Fruits Like This 

FARIBAULT , MINN. 

The Leusdale Crabs 
ENTIRELY NEW 
1943 Flowering Crabs 
Near Lonsdale, a pretty little village 
locacted about 16 miles from Faribault, is 
a great planting of Siberian Crab seedlings, 
probably Pyrus baccata. This is an old 
planting in an old nursery and was allowed 
to grow to maturity. The trees cover about 
5 acres of ground and are probably 10 
years old. 
There are in the neighborhood of 5000 
trees in the planting and being seedlings, 
For the last 6 
years, they have blossomed and borne 
fruit. We have viewed these trees ever 
since they started to bloom. To a nursery- 
man such a planting is of intense interest 
because of valuable new things that might 
5000 different varieties. 
be found there. 
Three years ago we visited this planting 
during the blooming season and again in 
the fall when the fruits were ripe. We 
found the trees beautiful 


RAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
in spring when 
covered with bloom and even more inter- 
esting in the fall when covered with their 
varied brilliant colored fruits. 
We could easily have selected a hundred 
varieties that would have been valuable. 
We did select some 14 
which we thought were 
different kinds 
of outstanding 
A Group of Lonsdale Crabs Would Be Ideal on a Hillside 
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Some Trees Have Fruits Like This and Up to Twice as Large 
merit. These were selected mainly for the beauty of 
the tree as it stood laden with brilliant fruits shining 
through the foliage in the fall. 
The different fruits vary in size 
from that of a buckshot up to 
fruits three-fourths inch in diam- 
eter and come in all colors, orange, 
deep yellow, pale yellow, red, and 
brilliant red. 
If you like beauty and are fond 
of crabs, nothing could be more 
desirable than a big cluster plant- 
ing of these crabs. 
We have a beautiful lot of these 
crabs for this spring which we list 
as 5 to 6 ft., but most of them will 
run 6 to 7 ft. specimens. 
Lonsdale Crabs 
5 to 6 ft., $1.50 each 
5 all different, $6.25 
10 all different, $12.00 
AU Reautiul Trees 

