On Nursery Orders Less than $1.50, Add 15c 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. (Color photo, page 40.) Prices below. 
NEW RED GLOW (Minn. 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). 
(Color photo, page 41.) Prices bélow. 
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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 hag unusual ability to make other 
plums bear, and it also bears fruit of very 
high quality, for eating fresh or for canning. 
(Color photo, page 40.) Prices below. 
NEW TOKA—One of the richest flavored 
of all—vyery 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 sometimes called the 
apricot plum, For canning or jam, it igs un- 
surpassed, A fine pollinator for any plums on 
this page. Prices below. 
canning plum 
Has a distinct, 
Superior 
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New! A Prune for the North 
NEW DIETZ PRUNE —A new fruit 
introduced from Southern Russia! Hardy 
almost anywhere in U,. 8. Heavy crops are 
borne all along the limbs. Fruits are 
about one inch long, are almost black with 
a beautiful heavy bluish “‘bloom.’’ This 
novel new fruit is easy to grow -and makes 
delicious sauce—it’s especially sweet when 
eaten fresh (see color photo, page 40). 
Special: 4 to 5 ft. trees, $1.95 each, 3 for 
$5.55 prepaid. (Smaller sizes priced be- 
low.) 








HARDY CHERRIES ted Thrive xn SEVERE CLIMATES! 
New Chinese Bush Cherries 
True Cherries from the Orient, selected and 
improved at Minn. and Canadian Experiment 
Stations. 
NANKING CHERRY 
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—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. (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 41. 

“ORIENT’’—U. 
Cover Plums or Cherries with 
water, add 11% teaspoons soda, 
boil 
through colander, remove pits. 
Add sugar pound for pound, To 
a moderate sized kettleful, add 
one tablespoonful 
boil until thick, 
and seal. 
The Best Hybrid Cherries 
These delicious hybrid cherries become more 
popular every year. Extremely hardy—thrive 
m any soil (even sand) —pbear 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 bie 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 inside front cover. Plant with Hansen bush 
cherry pollinator. 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. 
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DELICIOUS JAM 
RECIPE 
Superior - Toka 
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Dietz Prune 
HYBRID CHERRIES: 

Sapalta 
Sapa 
Compass 
BUSH CHERRIES: 
Hansen... 
New Brooks 
Fruit Trees Shipped Prepaid! 
Mt. Royal Blue Plum 
New Dakota Amber 
Sapa New Nanking Orient 
Purple Flesh 
Cherries New Korean........ 
PLUMS: 
Pipestone S. Dakota 27 
Redcoat Kaga 
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 
preserves. Plant 
linate. 
HANSEN BUSH CHERRY—These litife 
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 
and gold in fall. Gorgeous for hedges. Plant 
two to pollinate each other. 
appetizing pies, sauce, 
with Dakota Amber to pol- 
ee 
PRICES: PLUMS & CHERRIES 
10 or 
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SIZES EACH EACH EACH 
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DWM yg ble an late ed 165 158 1.50 
\coitolG itn ae o 195 185 175 
{18 to 24 in. (transplants).... .50 46 42 
eo (2 to 3 ft. (transplants)... . 65 60 55 
3 to 4 ft (Budded stock)..... 1.65 
4 to 5 ft. (Budded stock). ... 1.95 
{ 2 to 3 ft. (Budded stock).... 1.45 
3 to 4 ft. (Budded stock).... 1.65 
vs 
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§ 18 to 24 in. (Budded stock)... 1.55 
1.2 to 3 ft. (Budded stock). ... 1.75 

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