2 THE BOUGHEN NURSERIES 
Our plantation is in a district which requires great hardiness and early 
maturing varieties. Near the boundary of the U.S.A. quite a different list 
might be desirable. We, however, are Northerners, and present a list of 
trees especially selected to make fruit growing pay in the North. We have 
land ready for some five hundred more trees this spring (1944), and we 
SHALL PLANT WITH CONFIDENCE. 
Of the SANDCHERRY-PLUM hybrids, we have two from Morden 
Experimental station which are outstanding in quality of fruit. These are 
the New Oka, and Dura, which are both red fleshed. The new Oka is very 
early in ripening, and the Dura quite late. 
We also have a new cherry hybrid of our own. CONVOY cherry was a 
chance seedling among thousands, selected first for its strong upright tree 
form. Itis probably a three-quarter plum of unknown parentage. The fruit 
is bright red, long stemmed, and of good size, 1144 x 34 inches wide. The 
quality is good; the fruit is sweet and preserves well. It will make a great 
ornamental in small gardens. Its fruit has passed the variety test in the 
largest nursery in the United States. It doesn’t drop off like plums. 
Convoy Cherry is on 1944 Recommended List of Fruits for Manitoba. 
Besides the experimentation which takes place here, 200 miles north- 
west of Winnipeg, we have an orchard of about 1500 trees, 350 miles to the 
North-west, at Nipawin, where my son tries out all varieties. 
So we ought to know something about what is hardy in the North. I 
have been here since 1891. 
The best way to make a failure of your fruit orchard is to buy seedling 
trees of various good varieties, give them space required for a grafted 
tree and then wait five years to prove you have trees of no particular value. 
You have lost five years of your life, the most valuable thing in existence, 
in wishful anticipation. Not one tree in a thousand is as good as its mother 
tree. Wesaw many of these dud orchards on farms last season. It was a 
shame, but it took little persuasion to get the owners to buy grafted trees 
of our recommended varieties. 
Fruit trees are scarce all over the prairies. We have sold large wholesale 
orders of hundreds of trees, especially Plums and Cherry Hybrids. So 
please order early to insure having the trees to plant in 1944. Our Convoy 
is over one third sold now before Catalog goes to print. If too late please 
say 1f we may hold order till fall of 1944. I believe we produce more fruit 
trees than any nursery in the West. But Order Now and Avoid Disap- 
pointment. We will send you the best hardy varieties obtainable for the 
country. 
Yours truly, 
W. J. BOUGHEN. 
