NEW HARDY SWEET BUSH 
ABSOLUTELY HARDY .. . . WILL GROW ANYWHERE 
The Cherry for the 
Small City Yard 
THE SWEET BUSH CHERRIES 
These Cherries are mainly black in 
color, mostly round, and about three- 
fourths inch in diameter. They are all 
on the sweet order with no trace of 
acidity, but some of them retain a trace 
of the flavor of the wild Sand Cherry. 
Some might object to this if eaten from 
the bush, but when they are made up 
into jelly, jam, or sauce, they have a 
flavor that everyone likes. 
SIZE OF BUSH 
The bushes attain an average height 
of 314 feet and the same ‘diameter. 
They: are tremendous bearers, so much 
so that the fruit will often bend the 
entire bush to the ground. 

LOADS OF FLOWERS J] 
THEN LOADS OF FINE FRUIT 
The NANKING CHERRY 
(Prunus Tomentosa) 

A fine ornamental shrub that can be used in any orna- 
mental planting and also bear great crops of fine Cherries 
at the same time. 
These bushes grow to a final height of about seven feet. The shrub 
is nicely shaped, with clean foliage that looks well all season. It can be 
worked into a planting about the house or in the shrub border. The 
flowers come early, just before the leaves. The color is an apple-blossom- 
pink in the bud but gradually opening into a pure white. 
Several varieties must be planted together. Otherwise the Nanking 
Cherry will not bear fruit. The fruit of the improved varieties is oval 
in shape, three-fourths inch long by one-half inch or a little better in 
diameter. The color varies from a very light pink to a rather deep red; 
the pit is small and the quality is good but a rtifle acid with no bitterness. 
This is not a Cherry to eat from the bush but it makes up into won- 
derful jam or jelly, tasty and different. 
A HEAVY CROPPER 
Last year our bushes were six years old and we had a tremendous 
crop. The fruit comes close to the limbs from the ground up, and is 
packed close together all along the limb. A solid mass of fruit is formed 
on every limb from tip down. A neighbor sold many crates containing 
16 quarts each on the St. Paul market. 
We will not sell less than three different varieties in an order as it 
takes this many to insure cross fertilization. 
Three fine 2 to 3 ft. bushes, all different, for $4.50; six all different, 
for $8.00; 12 for $15.00. 

