On Nursery Orders Less than $1.00, Add 15c Packing Charge 
HARDY CHERRIES 
The Best Hybrid Cherries 
These delicious hybrid cherries become more 
popular every year. Extremely hardy—thrive 
in any soil (even sand)—bear big crops in two 
os three years. Ideal for canning, sauce, or 
pies. Sapa is delicious eaten fresh. 
SAPA CHERRY A big purple-red cherry 
with delicious wine red flesh. Thin skinned, 
small pit. Makes pies and sauce of most appe- 
tizing color and flavor. Often sets fruit second 
year. Yields best if grown as a large bush by 
pruning severely—ceutting out older growth an- 
nually. Plant with Hansen Bush Cherry to 
insure pollination. Prices below. 
COMPASS CHERRY—Hardy throughout 
the Northwest and Canada. Fruit is black, of 
medium size and good quality. Makes delicious 
pies,. preserves, etc. Plant a Hansen Bush 
Cherry also to insure pollination. 
OPATA CHERRY—Bears loads of dark 
purple red cherry-plums, generally the second 
year. Excellent to eat out of hand. Fruit 
ripens very early in August, is thin skinned 
and has very small pit. Plant a Hansen Bush 
Cherry also to insure pollination, 
New Bush Cherries 
IMPROVED NANKING CHERRY—U. 
of Minn. selections from Northern China’s 
cherries! Graceful 7 ft. shrubs, radiant with 
bloom in spring, loaded with long ropes of 
bright red fruit of ‘‘true cherry flavor’’ by 
mid-July. Splendid for pies, sauce or pre- 
serves—delicious eaten fresh. Often bear sec- 
ond year. Insist on budded stock—seedlings 
are inferior. Plant two or more to insure 
pollination, (Inside front cover.) Prices below, 
NEW KOREAN CHERRY—Dwart 3% 
ft. plants are a mass of gorgeous blooms in 
spring, followed by loads of delicious full-sized 
bright red cherries—sweeter than commercial 
pie cherries. Makes appetizing pies, tasty 
sauce and preserves. Very hardy—often bear 
second year. Plant two or more to insure pol- 
lination. (Inside front cover.) Prices below, 


HANSEN BUSH CHERRY—tThese little 
3 to 4 ft. bush cherries have proved the most 
effective pollinizer for all hybrid ‘cherries 
(above). Hansen produces small deep red fruit 
very early. Makes fine jam. A midget sensa- 
tion in bloom. Silver green foliage turns red 
and gold in fall. Gorgeous for hedges. 
two to pollinate each other, 










Sapa 
Purple Flesh 
Cherries 
New Cherries and Plums Shown in Color, Inside Front Cover and Page 40 
Plant . 



Superior 
Plum 
JUMBO PLUMS 
NEW PIPESTONE PLUM Minnesota’s 
newest ‘‘JUMBO’’ plum! Largest of all and 
much better than most plums now grown, Extra 
early—ripens first week in August. A heavy 
cropper—exceptional eating quality and also 
excellent for canning. Color photo, page 40. 
Prices below. 

NEW REDCOAT—(Free Stone). This 
brand new Minn. State Frait Farm plum bears 
heavy loads of choice quality, all red, prune 
shaped fruit, with a perfectly free stone, A 
grand improvement over Red Wing and older 
plums. Prices below. 
NEW SUGAR PLUM—(Pollinator). Su- 
gar Plum (South Dakota 27) has proved a 
most efficient pollinator for other plums on this 
page. It’s a most attractive red and yellow 
plum of delightful flavor. Ideal for eating out 
of hand or canning, Prices below. 
MT. ROYAL BLUE PLUM—Now you 
can grow these big Kuropean Type Blue Plums 
in your own back yard, instead of buying 
‘‘shipped in’’ fruit from the grocery. Fruit 
is a beautiful blue—makes delightful dessert, 
jam or preserves. Tested in Mirfnesota and 
Canada for extreme hardiness: A big yielder 
and self-fertile (a single tree will bear fruit), 
Prices belaw. 
SUPERIOR—A hardy plum originated at 
the State Fruit Breeding Farm by crossing 
big California Burbank varieties. As large as 
California plums, surpassing them in quality 
and hardiness. Firm flesh, beautiful red color, 
peels like a peach. Prices below. 
UNDERWOOD—Bears annually, is of 
large size and excellent flavor: flesh firm, small 
pit. It may be readily peeled for canning. 
Sugar Plum or Kaga should also be planted to 
insure setting of fruit. Prices below. 
KAGA — (Pollinator.) 
An outstanding canning 
plum originated by Prof. 
Hansen of the S. D. Agri- 
cultural college. Has a dis- 
tinct, delicious flavor, and 
is sometimes called the 
apricot plum. For canning 
or jam, it is unsurpassed. 

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HARDY PEARS 
BANTAM PEAR—MNOW a real high qual- 
ity. eating pear, with hardiness of a Duchess 
apple! Latest sensation of Minn. Fruit Farm. 
Flavor of the luscious fruit—a big surprise. 
Not a large pear—but makes up in quality 
what it may lack in size: A vigorous grower, 
free from blight, stands severe cold. Ideal for 
lawn planting, 


PARKER PEAR Introduced by the Min- 
nesota State Fruit Farm, this splendid pear is 
now recommended .for the southern half of 
Minnesota and similar latitudes. The fruit is 
medium to large, with smooth skin; color, yel- 
low-bronze with faint blush. Flesh is fine- 
grained, tender, sweet, and juicy. Fruit ripens 
in early September. 
PATTEN PEAR This pear 
has been thoroughly tested and is 
now recommended for planting in 
southern Minnesota and suggested 
for trial in favorable locations 
farther north. The fruit is of good 
Size, resembles Bartlett in form 
and color; very tender, juicy and 
of good quality. Sea- 
son, September. 












New 
Bantam 
Highest Quality 
Super Hardy 

PRICES: PLUMS, CHERRIES, PEARS 
1to4 5to9 10 or 
more 
A fine pollinator for any SIZES EACH EACH EACK 
plums offered on this page, HYBRID CHERRIES: 
AS IRE Sapa adaanamel aaa Bto oT PMR nurs $1.50 $1.45 $1.40 
Conmpass:a ee ae coche \i to Ofte ee errant 1.65 1.60 1.55 
Qpataeeeacn,seeeec nce Sito Ofteal ac caN ae sek ae 1.85 1.80 1.75 
BUSH CHERRIES: ‘ 
18 to 24 in. (transplants) ..  .39 34 .29 
Hansen ns coer i veee occ enns { 2 to 3 ft. (transplants)... .. -50 A5 40 
; 18 to 24in. (Budded stock). 1.10 
PW AETMOL Roo bic 2 a0 {3 to 3 ft. (Budded stock) .. 1.35 
18 to 24 in. (Budded stock). 1.35 
New Korednix. ..#e.eneseee 1) to 3 ft. (Budded stock) .. 1.75 
PLUMS: 
Pipestone Superior Stok fUS.c cece came 1.50 1.45 1.40 
Redcoat Underwood LW RRM Aichi SA ASS 65 1.65 1.60 1.55 
Sugar Plum Kaga 51016 ft. ove ncsicteretemrersteeteters 1.85 1.80 1.75 
Mt. Royal Blue Plum.......... 18 to 24 in....3 0s emer 1.30 
PEARS: 
New Bantam............. 2 to 3 ft. (Not Branched).... 1.25 115 
Parnkele cotncnies ete iieatee 6 }toast at Branched).... 1.50 1.40 
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