PLUM-CHERRY HYBRIDS 
People who live in the Middle West from Texas on the south, up through Okla- 
homa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, to Manitoba on the north and 
adjacent bordering territories, cannot afford to miss planting these Plum-Cherry 
hybrids. They all do exceedingly well in this territory. They are dependable and easily 
grown. The fruit from all of them is equally good for canning and for making jam 
and jelly. 

Plant Plum-Cherries in your garden. Many should bear the first year and all will bear heavily the second year. 



GROW IN BUSH FORM 
All of these Plum-Cherries do best and bear more abundantly when 
grown in bush form. Keep them all trimmed by severely cutting out 
the old wood. This causes them to throw many suckers which will all 
bear at two years of age. These Plum-Cherries should be planted about 
14 ft. apart. 
When you receive these trees the most of them will seem to be tree 
form but after being planted they will send limbs out from the trunk. 
Let some of these grow and they will soon develop into bush form. 
Each year trim out some of the old wood and let some new wood grow 
in its place. 
Select 4- to 5-Ft. Trees, Except Oka, $1.50 Each 
COMPASS. This was the first of all the Plum-Cherry hybrids to be in- 
troduced. It has been grown here in Minnesota for nearly 50 years 
and has proved to be one of the most satisfactory 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 fertilizer 
of all Plums and Plum-Cherry hybrids. 
CHAMPA. This Cherry differs from the others we list. Its blossoms 
are a very delicate pink. It grows to a height of 5 or 6 feet and is 
literally covered with elongated blue-black Cherries about one-half 
inch in diameter. It is probably the heaviest bearer of all the hybrids. 
The fruit makes a tasty jam with a pleasant flavor all its own. 
EZAPTAN. Plum-Cherry hybrid. A Plum-Cherry of the same line of 
breeding as Sapa and a splendid kind to plant with that variety as a 
- fertilizer. Ezaptan is noted as an early and heavy bearer of dark 
purple fruits more richly colored even than Sapa. Quality is delicious, 
color a black-purple-red from skin to pit. 
MORDEN No. 121 and 122. These are two new varieties sent to us 
by the Canadian Station at Morden, Manitoba. They are very much 
alike. They are large, of fine quality, and the fruit is grown abun- 
dantly on low spreading bushy trees. The fruit is about an inch in 
diameter and an inch and a quarter long. Flesh of fruit is green, rich, 
and very tasty. Pit is small. Excellent for sauce and jam. They are 
too much alike to try to describe separately. Both should be planted 
for cross fertilization. 
OPATA. The Opata is another very fine Plum-Cherry, a sister fruit of 
the Sapa. It has a reddish blue skin and green flesh. Not as desirable 
- as the Sapa for canning but it is much better for eating from the tree. 
RUBY. A hybrid Cherry that comes to us from Canada. We have long 
desired a red-fruited variety among these Cherry hybrids and we 
have this in Ruby. Tremendous bearer of large red Cherries, very 
fine for sauce, jellies and jams, 
SAPA. (See color illustration.) Planted in great quantities throughout 
the middle northwest in commercial orchards. This is the great 
purple-fleshed Cherry. An absolutely hardy tree that begins to bear 
as a two-year-old. Just loaded with great crops of fruit borne all 
along the limbs of the bushlike trees. Fruit about an inch in diameter, 
flesh rich purple, juicy, and delicious flavor. 
ZUMBRA. A Plum-Cherry hybrid from the Minnesota Experimental 
Fruit Farm. Grows into a large bush covered with dark reddish purple 
fruits about three-fourths inch in diameter. A young and an annual 
bearer. Fruit very mild in flavor and we find it a wonderful kind for 
making Cherry pies. 
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. 
They are small, so small in fact, that six or more can be grown in a 
back yard, interfering little with other things. Being a Sand Cherry 
hybrid, it requires some other Plum to fertilize its blossoms so that it 
will bear fruit. 
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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 plant- 
‘ing 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 Horticultural Society to its fruit list for planting all over the state. 
4- to 5-ft. size. Each $1.75 
DIETZ PRUNE 
We had almost given up hopes that we would ever be able to 
grow Prunes successfully here in Minnesota and were surprised to 
find here in our very own county in a Bohemian community a lot 
of true Prunes growing and bearing heavy crops. These Prunes 
are somewhat small, being about five-eighths inch in diameter and 
an inch long. Sweet, an intense black covered with a heavy blue 
bloom, and borne in great quantities all along the limbs. Makes 
up into splendid Prune sauce. Brought here from southern 
Russia. Absolutely hardy. 
Fine heavy limbed, 3- to 4-ft. trees, $1.50 each 

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