On Nursery Orders Less than $1.00, Add 15¢ Packing Charge 
HARDY JUMBO PLUMS from the NORTH! 
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 41. 
Prices below. 
NEW REDCOAT—(Free Stone). This 
brand new Minn. State Fruit 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 MINNESOTA NO. 101 —A new 
release from Minnesota’s Fruit Breeding 
Farm. Prof. Alderman reports: ‘‘This large, 
handsome plum has been widely tested in this 
region. Fruit is dark bronze-red with orange 
flesh, clingstone. Quality very good for eating 
fresh, and for jam or jelly.’’ Prices below. 
MT. ROYAL BLUE PLUM—Now you 
can grow these big European 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 Minnesota and 
Canada for extreme hardiness. A big yielder 
and self-fertile (a single tree will bear fruit). 
Prices below. 
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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. 
- Pollinizer Plums = 
SOUTH DAKOTA 27 — (Sugar Plum.) 
This large, attractive red and yellow plum has 
proved a good pollinizer for other plums on 
this page. It has unusual ability to make other 
plums bear, and it also bears fruit of very 
high quality, for eating fresh or for canning. 
Prices below. 
NEW TOKA—One of the richest flavored 
of all—very sweet with a spicy, tangy flavor. 
One and one-half inch fruits of beautiful apri- 
cot color with firm yellow flesh and free stone. 
Very hardy, ripens late August. An efficient 
pollinizer for other plums, Prices below. 
KAGA — An outstanding 
originated by Prof. Hansen, 
delicious flavor, and is 
apricot plum. 
surpassed, 
this page. 
‘canning plum 
Has a distinct, 
sometimes called the 
For canning or jam, it is un- 
A fine pollinator for any plums on 
Prices below. 
Superior 
Plum 









New! A Prune for the North 
NEW DIETZ PRUNE —A new fruit 
introduced from Southern Russia! Hardy 
almost anywhere in U. S. Heavy crops are 
borne all along the limbs. Fruit, very 
sweet, makes delicious sauce. (Color photo 
page 40.) 
3 to 4 ft. trees (by Exp. not ppd.). Each 
$1.65, 3 for $4.65. 
4 to 5 ft. trees (by Exp. not ppd.). Each 
$1.85, 3 for $5.20. 
HARDY CHERRIES tet Jhrive ea SEVERE CLIMATES! 
New Chinese Bush Cherries 
True Cherries from the Orient, selected and 
improved at Minn. and Canadian Experiment 
Stations. 
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. (See page 41.) Prices below. 
NEW KOREAN CHERRY—Dwarf 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. (See page 41.) Prices below. 












Northern Fruit 
Growers: See 
Map, Page 29 for 
varieties best fitted 
to your area. 
New Cherries and Plums Shown in Color, Inside Front Cover and Page 40. 
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 
or 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—cutting out older growth an- 
nually. Plant with Hansen Bush Cherry to 
insure pollination. Prices below. 
NEW SAPALTA—A big flavorful hybrid 
cherry from Canada. Fruit of Sapa type, but 
sweeter and less cling-stone. Delicious eaten 
fresh, fine for canning, pies, sauce, preserves. 
See page 41. Plant with Hansen bush cherry 
pollinator, Prices below. 3 
COMPASS CHERRY—Hardy throughout 
the Northwest and Canada, Fruit is black, of 
medium size and good quality. Makes delicious 
ples, preserves, ete. Plant a 
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 
svery small pit. Plant a 
Hansen Bush Cherry also to 
insure pollination. 

Compass 
Opata 
BUSH CHERRIES: 
HYBRID CHERRIES: 
Sapa Sapalta 
Hanseni..#<tewe. 
New Dakota Amber 
New Brooks 
Sapa New Nanking..... 
le Flesh 
Brea as New Korean....... 
American Bush Cherries 
Improved varieties of Sand Cherries from So. 
Dakota Ag. College and Canadian Experiment 
Stations. 
DAKOTA AMBER—Big bunches of deli- 
cious golden amber fruits on ornamental 
bushes 4 to 5 ft. tall. Especially sweet to 
eat fresh, and make tasty sauce, jams, jellies- 
of beautiful color. Plant Brooks Cherry as 
pollinator. (See inside front cover.) 
BROOKS CHERRY—A new bush cherry 
from Canada. Fruit is often one inch long, 
glossy purplish black, firm, juicy, tender, of 
fine quality. Makes appetizing pies, sauce, 
preserves. Plant with Dakota Amber to pol- 
linate. (See inside front cover.) 

HANSEN BUSH CHERRY—These little 
3 to 4 ft. bush cherries have proved the most 
effective pollinizer for all hybrid cherries 
(at left). Hansen produces small deep red fruit 
very early. Makes fine jam. A midget sensa- 
tion in bloom. Silver green foliage turns red 



Hansen Bush and gold in fall. Gorgeous for hedges. Plant 
two to pollinate each other. 
PRICES: PLUMS & CHERRIES 
10 or 
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SIZES EACH EACH’ EACH 
PLUMS: 
Pipestone S. Dakota 27 3.00,4. fE. 5. ccc csearente tent $1.50 $1.45 $1.40 
Redcoat Kaga 4 [0:5 fhe eames 1.65 1.60 1.55 
Superior Toka 5't0 O'ft. 25. x eae oeeeneees 1.85 1.80 1.75 
Minn. 101 
2808S: Tt he Sonne cte cin atsta cote 1.45 
Mt. Royal Blue Plum....... 3 oT eee 1.65 
{ 18 to 24 in. (transplants) .. .39 34 29 
2 to 3 ft. (transplants)..... 50 45 -40 
{ 18 to 24 in. (Budded stock). 1.45 
2 to 3 ft. (Budded stock)... 1.65 
{ 2 to 3 ft. (Budded stock)... 1.45 
3 to 4 ft. (Budded stock)... 1.65 
{ 18 to 24 in. (Budded stock). 1.35 
2 to 3 ft. (Budded stock)... 1.65 
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