


A FIELD SCENE OF A BLOCK OF PLUMS IN OUR FIELD NO. 
8 Hardy lproved PLUMS 
We are not giving you a long list of varieties, but we can assure you those we list 
are record breakers in production and quality here in the Middle West. Furthermore, 
they are hardy, strong growers and begin bealing young. They frequently bear fruit the 
first year and start repaying your investment the second year. We grow other varieties 
and can supply them, but recommend that you make your selection from this list. 
GOLDEN ROD—This is a Minnesota Hybrid and one of the hardiest and most productive 
clear yellow plums for this territory. Here it ripens in August, fruit is round and 
large, excellent quality and very tasty. Tree is a strong grower and cold winter tem- 
peratures do not affect it in the least. One of the finest-yellow plums. 
KAGA—One of Professor Hansen’s Hybrids. Real quality, red, large, about 2 inches in 
diameter, firm fleshed, delicious apricot flavor. You will enjoy eating it fresh from 
the tree and you will find it cans well and makes wonderful jelly and butter. It fre- 
quently bears the first year and never fails the second year. 
KAHINTA—Professor Hansen Hybrid. A wonderful red plum. Good for eating, sauce 
and butter. Sometimes known as an improved Waneta. Has small pit, giving the plum 
an unusual amount of deep firm flesh of the very highest quality. Tree is very hardy 
and a strong grower. It will hold its own with the best. 
OMAHA—A Native Plum. Very large, buttery and excellent for eating and canning. 
The season is late. Omaha is the old stand-by of the native plums and without doubt 
the leader of the entire lot. While it does not come into bearing as young as some 
of Professor Hansen’s Hybrids, it makes up for lost time later. Every orchard should 
have Omaha. 
s OPATA—Professor Hansen Hybrid. Opata is a plum tree in habit of vigorous growth 
and forms fruit buds freely on one year old shoots in the nursery; foliage large and 
glossy, fruit one and three-sixteenths inches in diameter, dark purplish red with blue 
bloom. A tremendous producer, flavor sweet and makes an ideal sauce, also good 
for canning. 
+SAPA—Protessor Hansen Hybrid. Fruited first in 1907 on a tree cut back very severely 
for bud work; the tree is dwarf in habit; one year trees in nursery have many fruit 
buds; the glossy, dark purple skin and the rich dark purple-red flesh makes attractive 
sauce. It produces enormous crops every year, seldom misses. 
UNDERWOOD-—Minnesota Hybrid. Here ripens in August and continues over a long 
period. Fruit very large and one of the leading red plums. Very juicy and of excellent 
quality. 
WANETA—Professor Hansen Hybrid. For the commercial orckard man, here is a money 
maker. A record was kept by one of our customers on five trees and in six years he 
sold $94.00 worth of fruit from them. A gross profit of 1,780% on the original invest- 
ment. Fruit has good red color, very large, about 2 inches in diameter and weighs 
about two ounces; skin free from acerbity, delicious flavor and a sure heavy crop 
every year. 

IMPORTANT—Cross pollination is very important for a maximum plum crop. For 
this reason it is advisable to plant more than one variety. If you will select your varie- 
ties from the above list you will know your trees are properly pollinated and you can 
expect mammoth crops of the highest quality fruit. : 
SAPA 


WANETA | 
