THE BOUGHEN NURSERIES 7 
PLUMS 
Plums are valued for eating and preserving everywhere. The list of good 
ones 1s steadily growing, but all are not ‘‘the best ever.’’ We praise or 
knock them as we find them here. 

ASSINIBOINE—One of the first selections of Manitoba wild plums. Large 
red, fair preserver but soft. Often not a big yielder. $1.35 each variety. 

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BEAVER—Just named, but.an old standby here. Large yellow with pink 
bloom. Midseason. Great yielder of large fruit. Good for preserving. 
Assiniboine Seedling $1.35. | 
No. 1 B.V.R.—An exceptionally large, good quality later plum. Has a 
purple line on the suture of each fruit. Very firm, mostly red with blue 
bloom. Good shipper. Better not go north. It was highly approved by 
the late Geo. Chipman of the Country Guide. Bears heavily, good eating 
quality. $1.35. Especially attractive. 
DANDY—Our best plum, hardy as any, most prolific, bearing on last 
year’s wood like a Sandcherry, finest quality, eating or for cooking. 
Beautiful and good size when not overloaded, bears early, early ripening. 
Assiniboine Seedling. Some 1 year trees planted here in 1940 had over 
200 plums each in 1942. Quality, best of the Natives, and approved by 
all who use it. $1.50 each. 
VALLEY RIVER—Early and early bearing on last year’s wood. Firm, 
red and yellow, fair size. These two, as one of our customers says: ‘‘Make 
the most beautiful ornamentals in Saskatchewan.’’ This, and 2 next are 
natives and therefore absolutely hardy. $1.35. Some 2-year-olds. 
OLSON —Found in 1920, a later plum, but of good quality ; pure native, 
deep red. Great yielder. Some prefer it to any other plum. $1.35 each. 
WILSON RIVER—Big red plum, strong and healthy tree, very fair quality 
and very attractive. Should be planted where hardiness is required. $1.35. 
CHENEY —This is another plum of Native type, two weeks later ripening, 
a week later blooming. It is large, firm and good when ripe; red, good 
preserver. We usually have 200 pails of Cheney. Bore well in 1943. $1.35. 
