
Headquarters for Plums 
Gurney’s have been headquarters in the northwest for Plums for over 70 
years. Plums have been one of our specialties, and we believe we can grow 

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George Gurney in one of our Nursery Fields. 




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them better. 
Our plums are budded on plum—not on peach. 
(Beware of 
southern plum trees for the northwest, as many of them are budded on 
peach and will not stand our climate. The plum itself is hardy enough but 
the peach roots will not be the type that will stand our condition.) 
varieties listed will grow any place in the Dakotas. 
Set 18 ft. apart, 130 trees to the acre. 
hardy plums, order from Gurneys. 
Most 
If you want long lived 
By the way, plums do extra well in the chicken yard. Here’s a place where 
you can grow a lot of fruit and give shade to the chickens, and use up land 
that otherwise would not be producing anything. 
Gurney’s Low Plum Prices 
each 
rate 
3 to 4 feet 
4 to 6 feet 

GURNEY’S 
NORTHERN 
PLUM 
COLLECTION 
3 Hardy Plam Trees $2.59 
Here in one bargain collection are 3 of the 
hardiest, northern varieties of plums. All 
heavy bearers and all sure bearers. You get 
one each of the following: 
1 Compass Cherry—Plum Hybrid. 
1 Srperioe reno turning to pink and 
red. 
1 Underwood—Large red, very sweet. 
FIEBING PRIZE 
Big As a Peach 
A Plum that you can peel like a Peach. _ This plum is the right type for the Northern 
It’s almost as big as a small Peach, too; “ States and Canada. It ripens early and grows 
and its quality is excellent. The beauti- So Winnie ak tee ad ae) even as far North 
ful red color is un y attractive. Manitoba. really a splen- 
did plum, the fruit is ve large, z 
Bears a heavy annual crop. Tree is and juicy. It is of fine Gunite and ae coureis 
hardy. This appears to be one of the hardy. 
best, if not the best Minnesota production 
to date. For the Commercial Orchard or 
Garden—YOU MUST 
Prize—A real PRIZE 
Bears In Canada! 


Three 

TECUMSEH 
Extra Hardy—Long Lived 
Introduced by Dr. Hansen in 
1918. Really one of the very best 
Hansens. Sweet, aromatic, of 
good size, firm, excellent in qual- 
ity, this red Plum should be in 
your order this year. Often bears 
Ist year after planting. Rich 
dark red. Hardy in the far north 
and extra early. 
One of Minnesota’s Best Varieties 
The Tonka is without doubt one of the 
three best Plums in the Minnesota Group. 
Fruit is large, richly flavored, juicy, solid, and 
is an ideal plum for any purpose. Tree is 
very productive. A plum that is all plum on 
extra small pit. Hardy annual bearer. High 
quality can’t be beat for canning and eating 
fresh from tree. 
HYBRID PLUMS 
Cherry-Plum Crosses 
These are more dwarf-growing type of trees, 
and can be set as close together as 10 to 12 ft. 
These wonderful new northern and proven Plum 
and Cherry hybrids will produce a lot of fruit ~ 
on a small space, because they can be planted 
so close together. All varieties listed have been 
thoroughly proven hardy in the Dakotas. See 
varieties at right. 



Gurney’s Hybrid Plum 
= a CHERRY 
Prices Best Known Plam-Hybrid 
each = Hes 5 10 25 This is the very hardy, early-bearing 
rate rate rate rate rate hybrid plum—noted for its bright red 
. fruit. Will w and bear anywhere. 
Sto4ft.......$0.98 $0.95 $0.92 $088 $0.83 — Portect for jams and jellies, low grow- 
4 to 5 ft....... 1.10 1.07 1.04 1.00 -95 ing, easy to pick. 
(Reg. Value $3.00) 

3 to 414%4 Foot—Best 
Transplanting Size 
$ep a9 
All 3 Only 

More HANSEN HARDY HYBRIDS 
“The Apricot Flavored Plum’*’ 
A deliciously flavored plum, 
fragrantly appetizing. Medium 
size, heavy producer, and Bears 
in ONE YEAR after planting. 
Hardy like all of Hansen’s hardy 
introductions. The flavor of this 
plum is the nearest to an apricot 
you could find. 

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MORDENA 
CHERRY 
Bears Ist Year 
A big tree loaded with red fruit is a 
sight to gladden the he BL u can 
have all you war gre& of these 
hardy, prolific Cherries. Its 
wide in 
fruit ear after planting, and it’s 
anches bear loads of 
good fruit for eating fresh or cooked. 

a 3 GURNEY’S, Yankton, Se. Dak.—““*Northwest’s Largest Seed and Nursery Heuse”’ 
3 5 10 
rate 
$0.95 
1.07 
rate 
$0.88 
1.00 
rate 
$0.92 
1.04 

= 
TERRY 
Good Pollenizer 
One of the largest Pure Amer- 
ican Plums, dark red, of the 
very best quality; tree vigorous, 

healthy, hardy, and productive. ' . 
A good pollinizer. Stanus near 
the top of the list. 
a 
Rieh Plum Apricot Flavor 
You-should plant Toka for a num- 
ber of reasons; First, it is extremely 
hardy and a heavy bearer; second, 
it produces large delicious plums reg- 
ularly; third, for its value as a pol- 
linizer, inducing other varieties to 
bear heavily; fourth, because it is 
of delicious, rich, plum-apricot fla- 
vor. 
OKA CHERRY 
The Heavy Bearer 
Almost black, juicy fruit, big Cherries, 
heavy production and extra hardy—that 
describes the Oka Cherry. It’s hardy 
anywhere in the Middle Northwest. Oka 
will dry like a prune and can be kept 
Oka, oe prunes. Plant lots of 
ou’ nd it profitable. 
in 3-4 ft. only. “ See 


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