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Nanking Cherry (Prunus Tomentosa) 
The NANKING CHERRY 
A fine ornamental shrub that can be used in any orna- 
mental planting and also bear great crops of fine cherries 
at the same time. 
(See color illustration, page 47) 
These bushes grow to a final height of about seven feet. The shrub 
is nicely shaped, with clean foliage that looks well all season. It can be 
worked into a planting about the house or in the shrub border. The 
flowers come early, just before the leaves. The color is an apple-blossom- 
pink in the bud but gradually opening into a pure white. 
Several varieties must be planted together. Otherwise the Nanking 
Cherry will not bear fruit. The fruit of the improved varieties is oval 
in shape, 34 inch long by 14 inch or a little better in diameter. The 
color varies from a very light pink to a rather deep red; the pit is small, 
and the quality is good but a trifle acid, with no bitterness. 
A HEAVY CROPPER 
Last year our bushes were five years old and we had a tremendous 
crop. The fruit comes close to the limbs from the ground up, and is 
packed close together all along the limb. See color picture. A solid 
mass of fruit is formed on every limb from tip down. A neighbor sold 
many crates containing 16 quarts each on the St. Paul market. 
The illustration above shows part of a 120-ft. row of the bushes in 
our nursery together with a crate of fruit. We must have picked 10 
bushels of fruit from this row. 
Prof. Alderman, in charge of the Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm 
Station, said on December 11th last in an address before the Minne- 
sota Nurserymen’s Association: “There is no longer any question as 
to the value of the fruit of the Nanking Cherry.” 

We will not sell less than three different bushes as it takes this many 
to insure cross fertilization. 
Three fine 3 to 4 ft. bushes, all different, for $3.00; five all different, 
for $4.50. 

The above bushes are all budded bushes from varieties made at 
Minnesota State Breeding Farm. Do not confuse these budded va- 
rieties which we offer with Nanking Cherry grown from seed that 
may be oftered. We offer 5 distinct varieties—Nanking No. 5; 
Nanking No. 22; Nanking No. 9; Nanking No. 42, and Nanking 
Drilea. 

NANKING CHERRY, DRILEA 
This is a new selection of improved Nanking Cherry from the Mani- 
toba Station at Morden. It is a fine red fruited variety that has shown 
itself very drought-resistant, which would make it very desirable for the 
drier sections. 
Plant with other Nanking Cherry varieties for fertilizers. Same price. 
New Korean 
BUSH CHERRY 
(Prunus Japonica) 
An Absolutely New Thing in Bush Cherries Offered 
for the First Time Last Season 
(See color illustration, page 47) 
The wild Bush Cherry of Korea was brought to the United States and 
bred up over a period of many years from the best of thousands and 
thousands of seedlings selected and re-selected until we now have a new 
Cherry that grows on a bush 21% to 3 feet high that is almost indis- 
tinguishable in appearance from the . 
bush of the Flowering Almond. 
A NEW MINNESOTA FRUIT 
FARM FRUIT 
This is a new fruit produced by 
the Minnesota Fruit Farm and we 
believe it is going to revolutionize 
Cherry growing in the middle north- 
west. 
THE BUSH 
The bush looks just like a nice, 
neat, upright grown Flowering Al- 
mond bush. It makes a very desir- 
able shrub for planting about the 
house. Leaves medium dark green, 
turning to bright colors with frost 
and remaining on late in the fall. 

THE FRUIT IS A SURPRISE 
The fruit varies with different varieties from a bright red like that 
of the Early Richmond Cherry to a brownish red like that of Mont- 
morency. Some kinds are round and about a half inch in diameter 
while other sorts average up in size and shape with the Early Richmond 
Cherry. In fact, we believe the two could be mixed and unless told, 
one would not notice the difference. 
GOOD TO EAT AND FINE TO CAN 
The fruit is just a trifle sharp in most varieties to eat from the hand 
but some varieties are very mild and verge toward the sweet. All make 
up into wonderful jams, jellies and sauces. 
We truly believe the Nanking and the Korean Bush Cherries in the 
course of a few years will be found in almost every far northern garden. 
We offer Korean Cherries in three numbered varieties—Minnesota 
No. 20, Minnesota No. 57, and Minnesota No. 60—$1.00 each. Nice 
bushes. 

KOREAN BUSH CHERRY 
Two-year bush showing size of bush and abundance of fruit. 
and you will see fruit alf through foliage. 
Look close 
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