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Plant Our New Hardy Plums and Grow the Finest 



Splendid 
We carry a very fine assortment of the 
improved new plums. These wonderful plums 
have been developed during the past thirty 
years by the plant breeders at the Minnesota 
and South Dakota Fruit Breeding Farms. 
These plums are the best that have been de- 
veloped up to date. It is very fortunate that 
we have them as their possession enables us 
to pick fruit right off our own trees that is 
just as fine looking, just as large, and just as 
fine in quality as the beautiful big plums that 
are shipped here from the orchards of Cal- 
ifornia. We have even shipped Splendid Plum 
trees to California customers and have had 
reports from them after these trees bore that 
they were the “finest plums they ever ate.” 
We are now listing 14 different varieties and 
we would advise buyers if they purchase 8 to 
10 trees, to take one of a kind, as the varie- 
ties are distinctly different in flavor. They also 
fruit at different times and spread the enjoy- 
ment of eating plums over a longer period of 
time. All these plums that carry the wild 
American plum blood must be planted in 
groups side by side so as to fertilize one an- 
other or they will not bear. 
Because of the extreme shortage 
of. help in 1943, we were able to put 
in only about one-fourth of our 
regular quantity of plum buds. We 
confined our efforts to three varieties 
which we thought would best fer- 
tilize one another and still give our 
customers absolute satisfaction as to 
quality. 
We chose Fiebing, Splendid and 
Underwood. These are all early va- 
rieties blooming at the same time, 
and all produce first class, big, qual- 
ity plums. 
Because these plum trees are not 
self-fertile and must be planted to- 
gether to bear fruit, we have de- 
cided to offer our small stock in lots 
of three, using one of a kind, or 
multiples of three. 

FIEBING. Our Fiebing plums have now stood in our orchard eight SPLENDID. (See color illustration, page 45.) We first offered this 
years. For six years they have given us a big crop of fine plums. 
One of the largest first class plums we ever grew. A large oblong 
plum about the size of the average hen’s egg. The color is a deep 
blue-black. Very meaty, small pit, flesh rich and dark, quality very 
fine. Not so good in quality as Splendid but still strictly first class. 
Looks like a great big blue prune. 
variety for sale in the ‘spring of 1930. At that time we said that the 
Splendid was the finest plum we had ever eaten. We still say the same 
thing. To date we have never had a plum that will compare with the 
Splendid for quality. Fine, rather upright growing tree. Fruit almost 
round, slightly larger at the base. Bright red, with numerous white 
spots, changing to deep, rich red as it becomes thoroughly ripe. Skin 
thin, pit small, fruit large, averaging 11/4 to 134 inches. Flesh firm, 
UNDERWOOD. The earliest of the large new plums. Ripens from about richly colored, meaty, and the flavor is simply splendid. 
August Ist to 15th and attains a size of 134 inches. Limbs, well and 
heavily shouldered, enable it to carry its great loads without injury to 
the tree. In favored locations, we do not hesitate to advise its planting 
far north. Fruit is a very attractive red, firm, juicy flesh, very small 
pit, freestone. Splendid quality. (See color ilustration, page 45.) 
PRICES OF PLUMS 
3 trees, 4 to 5 ft, (1 of each kind)! for. 5... s- «eli $4.50 
6 trees, 4 to 5 ft. (2 of each kind) for ..............--.... $9.00 
Finest of All the Plum-Cherry Hybrids 
THE OKA CHERRY 
PLANT OKA - The Last Word in Eating Cherries 
The trees are perfectly hardy in North and South Dakota, Wis- 
consin, Northern Michigan, and all over Minnesota, wherever the 
hardy fruits can be grown. 
The trees are small, so small in fact, that six or more can be grown 
in a back yard, interfering little with other things. Being a Sand 
Cherry hybrid, it requires some other Sand Cherry to fertilize its 
blossoms so that it will bear fruit. 
When properly cross-fertilized, the trees will bear heavy crops of 
fruit every year beginning as two-year-olds in the nursery row. 
The fruit is round, average 114 inches in diameter, is black on 
the outside with a rich, juicy red-purple flesh, that is very sweet. 
All who have had the pleasure of eating this wonderful new Plum- 
Cherry hybrid are perfectly agreed that it’s the sweetest and finest 
of all hardy Cherries. And by hardy we mean a Cherry that is hardy 
in Minnesota. 
In 1932 Oka Cherry was the only new fruit added by the Minne- 
sota State Horticultural Society to its fruit list for planting all over 
the state. 
PRICE: NICE 1-YEAR TREES, $1.50 EACH b 
POLLINIZERS 
It does no good to plant the Oka alone, as it will not bear. To fertilize it 


Oka Cherries 
OKA CHERRY 
is beginning to be planted by orchardists in large quantities and is proving 
profitable in a commercial way. Large fruit growing on small trees makes 
and bring it into the bearing stage, plant it with at least two different varieties 
of the Sweet Bush Cherries, such as Black Beauty, Brooks, Okreek,. etc. 

easy picking. 
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