
Oka (Plum-Cherry Hybrid) 
BE SURE TO GROW 
ALL THESE PLUM- 
CHERRY HYBRIDS IN 
BUSH FORM 


= 
Compass Plum-Cherry Hybrid 
color page 43 for description of Morden’s 
No, 222 and 223. 

COMPASS. This was the first of all the Plum- 
CHAMPA. This Cherry differs from the 
THE OKA CHERRY 
Plant Oka for One of the Best Eating Cherries 
The trees are perfectly hardy in North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Northern 
Michigan, and all over Minnesota, wherever the hardy fruits can be grown and do 
well from Texas to Canada. 
They are small, so small in fact, that six or more can be grown in a back yard, inter- 
fering little with other things. Being a Sand Cherry hybrid, it requires some other 
Plum 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. 
In the nursery we grow all of these varieties in one block, side by side, and they 
are perfectly cross-fertilized. We do not know just which of these varieties cross- 
fertilize one another, but we do know by planting as many as three different varieties 
that you are sure to get proper fertilization. 
The fruit is round, average 114 inches in diameter, is red-purple 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 Minnesota State Horti- 
cultural Society to its fruit list for planting all over the state. 
Most all of our Oka trees are in bush form, 3 to 4 ft. size. 
Each $1.75 




EZAPTAN SAPA PLUM-CHERRY HYBRID 
5 (Below) 
(Plum-Cherry Hybrid) Tremendous early bearer. Makes 
Remarkable for its earliness wonderful jam, jelly, and sauce. 
and heavy bearing. Plant with Oka to fertilize that 
splendid variety. 






For two new Plum-Cherry Hybrids see 
Cherry hybrids to be introduced. It has been 
grown here in Minnesota for nearly 50 years 
and has proved to be one of the most satis’ 
factory and dependable fruits we have. Fruit 
is round, red, and about three-fourths inch 
in diameter. It is fair to eat from the tree 
but it: makes a splendid Cherry to can. It is 
also one of the best varieties to use as a fer- 
tilizer of all Plums and Plum-Cherry hybrids. 
others we list. Its blossoms are a very 
delicate pink in color. It can be grown 
in either tree or bush form. It grows 
to a height of between 5 and 6 ft. It is 
literally covered with elongated blue- 
black Cherries about one-half inch in 
diameter. Tremendous bearer of a 
fruit that makes a tasty jam with a 
pleasant flavor all its own. 
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