
GURNEY’S HARDY What it Means to You to Plant 
~ NATIVE FRUITS | Gurney’s NORTHERN GROWN 
HARDY FRUIT TREES 
When you plant Gurney’s NORTHERN-GROWN fruit trees 
and bushes you get a premium in hardiness and the ability to 
take it, that you can’t find everywhere. Gurney’s stock is grown 
right here in Yankton, where we can see whether it can stand 
cold weather and hot dry winds. When we send it out to you, we 
know in advance it will do well for you, because we’ve tested it.~ 
These are the native fruits that we all enjoy so much, but seem 
to forget to plant on our own places. Have priced some of them 
in small sizes and very low prices, so you can have plenty. 
For all you people here in the great Northwest, Gurney stock 
is absolutely essential. You have to have hardiness, strong root 
systems, and real strength to survive our climate. Those of you 
farther South will be a lot better off with it. Hardiness and 
strength are almost the best things you can have in fruit trees, 
no matter where you live. And that’s just what you get at 
Gurney’s. We don’t grow anything else. 


This is an ordinary 
fruit graft, the 
kind you see so 
often and that 
often doesn’t sur- 
vive. Contrast it 
with the heavily 
rooted Gurney 
fruit tree bud op- 

BEST KNOWN HYBRID 
PLUM-CHERRY 
AN201—COMPASS—This is a well 

*\ CHOKE CHERRY 
AN78—A beautiful orna- \ 
mental with spicy fragrant flow- 
GURNEY FRUIT TREES ARE 
ers produced like great banks of 
snow: Later come the great clus- 
ters of purplish black cherries. 
known, hardy, early bearing cherry- 
plum cross. Will produce a heavy 
crop the second year of bright red 
"Whole -Root Budded”---Not Grafted 
posite. 
fruit. Will grow and bear anywhere. 
Perfect for jams and jellies and 




Be sure to have these nursery In order to grow the hardiest fruit trees, it is necessary to select 
ST se echerries mm your _ excellent for, eating, fresh from a super-hardy root system, and then graft or bud a fruit variety 
Size Each Per5 Per10 Postpaid Each Per3 Per5 Per 10 to it. This practice is followed by all nurserymen. But there is a 
2-4 a uo Sues 29¢ $1.39 $2.60 gaat ee mee $4.19 $6.89 $13.29 great difference in how you can do it. 
Not. Ppa... 25.6 45c 2.19 3.98 rs 9» SEES ae 1.69 4.98 8.15 15.19 
The usual practice is to take one small part of a root and graft 
it to variety stock, as you see in the picture at the right. This is 
the way most trees are grown. At Gurney’s we do not feel that 
this is enough insurance of hardiness. So we “bud” variety stock 
on the WHOLE ROOT SYSTEM. You can see how we do it in 

This is the type of 
heavily rooted 
fruit trees you get 
at Gurney’s. Notice 
haw the entire 
seedling root is 

GOLDEN FLOWERING 
CURRANT 
AN96—A large spreading, ex- 
tremely hardy, drouth resistant 
shrub; entirely covered with 
golden yellow flowers in the 
spring, followed by quantities of 
shiny black currants that are ex- 
cellent for eating fresh or can- 
ning. Does well in sun and shade. 
An excellent landscape shrub. 
Strong Plants—39c Each; 5 for 
$1.75, postpaid. 


SAND CHERRY 
AN80—Another good bush fruit 
that makes an excellent ornamental 
or hedge. The fruit is good for can- 
ning or sauce; or to eat from the 
bush. It is a strong grower and 
perfectly hardy. Drouth resistant 
and the GRASSHOPPERS leave it 
alone. Sand cherry will produce 
heavy crop year after planting. 
STRONG PLANTS 
2 for 39c; 10 for $1.59; 25 for $3.29, 
postpaid. 

WILD BLACK CHERRY 
AN79—This is a very gor- 
geous tree. It bears flowers in 
large white clusters in early 
spring and then in August it 
bears a great abundance of ed- 
ible fruit. It is hardy, rapid 
grower, and makes a large. tree. 
Size Each Per5 Per 10 
12-24 in., Ppd.....29c $1.39 $2.60 

MOTHER GURNEY’S 
Everbearing Mulberry 
The ‘Mother Tree,”’ a variety of the 
Russian Mulberry, has been growing 
for many years here at Yankton. It 
has along season of fruitings, begin- 
ning early in July and continuing to 
ripen big, luscious, black fruits all 
summer. The fruit is excellent for can- 
ning, jams, jelly or eating from hand, 
The tree is a fast grower and should 
appear in all windbreaks. Plant a 
Mulberry hedge. When Mulberries are 
planted around orchards the birds will 
do much less damage to other fruit. 

AN265—Seedlings 
Postpaid Per10 Per 50 Per 100 
12-18 in $0.49 $2.24 $ 4.25 
18-24 in, 2.99 5.85 
2-3 ft 4.49 8.85 
3-4 ft. 6.10 11.85 
AN266—Transplant 
Postpaid Each Per 10 
tat eet RS eee $0.4 
Exp. Not Prepaid 
Ba O BO Siar Geis ee ters 69 6.50 
\ SASKATOON BLUEBERRY 
AN335—In looks and quality it is 
much like the HUCKLEBERRY. It 
forms a bush about four feet tall 
and is ideal as an- Ornamental 
Fruiting HEDGE. Plant a row along ‘ 
the front of your garden. The fruit 
is excellent for jams, jellies, canning 
or eating fresh. 
Transplants 
Postpaid Ea. Per5 Per 10 
12-24-10 5 «See 49c = $2.39 
eB rit... cine +++ 69¢ 3.29 6.39 
/ 
“budded” to the 
variety wanted. 
the picture at the left. 
HARDY FOR NORTH OR SOUTH 
At no time is a tree, or any other plant, in more danger, than when it is first 
planted. It must have a root system that will permit it to get down to the moisture 
and plant food that it needs to grow and survive. By “budding” to the whole, hardy 
root system, we are able to send out to you, young trees that will take hold imme- 
diately, and really produce fruit in the shortest time. 
GURNEY FRUIT TREES ARE TRUE TO NAME 
One of a grower’s most disappointing experiences is to find after buying and 
caring for'a tree for a year or two or three, to have it bear the wrong kind of 
fruit. That means wasted money, wasted time, wasted effort. 
THAT WON’T HAPPEN AT GURNEY’S. Only experts work on our trees, 
and checkers constantly check on everyone’s work. Every tree goes through 
many inspections to assure perfectly-graded, strong, healthy trees and MORE 
IMPORTANT—THAT YOU GET 
EXACTLY WHAT YOU ORDER. 
You plant now for years to come. 
Be sure you get the best stock 
when you order NOW. 
Yes, Gurney nursery stock is 
grown for all zones. If you live in 
Northern communities, read the 
map at the right. If you live far- 
ther South, ALL Gurney stock 
will do well for you. More and 
more customers from the South 
are coming to us for nursery stock, 
because they know the value for 
truly HARDY stock. They know 
that HARDY stock will do better, 
NO MATTER WHERE YOU 
PLANT IT, 
ZONE 1 
All Trees, Small Fruits, Flowers, Shrubs, and 
Vines found in the Gurney Catalog are recom- 
mended for this Region. 
ZONE 2 
All hardy except the following: 
Apples: Hardy except Red Delicious, Jonathan, 
Yellow Delicious, 
Plums: All hardy. 
Cherries: Pie cherries hardy except in northern 
one-half. 
Apricots: All hardy. 
Apples: Haralson, Duchess, 
Fireside, N. W. Greening. 
Crab Apples: All hardy. 
Cherry: None except Hybrids, 
Apricots: Siberian, var. Manchu, 

NORTHERN GROWERS Observe Map 
ZONES 4 and 5 
Recommended best for planting: 
Wealthy, 
Manitoba, Yellow Transparent, 
Anoka, 
Prairie Spy, 
Plums: All hardy. For EXTRA hardiness plant 
Hansen Hybrids, Waneta, Tecumseh, Pipestone. 
Small Fruits: All hardy except need winter cover- 
ing. Boysenberry, Black Raspberry, Blackberry 
and Dewberry need extra protection and covering. 
Forest Trees: All hardy. 
Ornamental Shrubs: All hardy except the follow- 
ing need winter protection: Hydrangea, Butterfly 
Bush, Spirea Anthony Waterer. F 
Vines: All mony. except Clematis, Wisteria, Silver 
Lace Vine—give winter covering. 
Forest Trees: All hardy, unless otherwise noted. 
Ornamental Shrubs: Spirea Van Houttei, Lilacs, 
Coralberry, Snowberry, Honeysuckle, Snowball, 
Bush Roses, Sumac, Buckthorn, Cotoneaster, 
Dogwood, Wahoo, Tamarix. 
‘ZONE 6 
Same as Zone 1. 
