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Plum 
POLLINIZER PLUMS 
These Plums not only produce quality fruit, but 
have proved most effective in pollinating all 
other plum varieties. 
TOKA—One of the richest flavored of all—very 
sweet with a spicy, tangy flavor. One and one- 
half inch fruits of beautiful apricot color with 
firm yellow flesh and free stone. Very hardy, 
ripens late August. An efficient pollinizer for 
other plums. Prices below. 
KAGA—An outstanding canning plum originated 
by Prof. Hansen. Has a distinct, delicious flavor, 
and is sometimes called the apricot plum. For 
canning or jam, it is unsurpassed. A fine pol- 
linator for any plums on this page. Prices be- 
low. 
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-PIPESTONE PLUM—Minnesota’s newest 
“RED GLOW—(Minn. 101). 
NEWEST MINNESOTA 
EXPERIMENT STATION PLUMS: 
“JUM- 
BO” 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 37.) Prices below. 
. 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. 
A new release from 
Minnesota's Fruit Breeding Farm. Prof. Alder- 
man reports: “This large, handsome plum has 
been widely tested in this region. Fruit is dark 
bronze-red with orange flesh, clingstone. Qual- 
ity very good for eating fresh, and for jam or 
jelly.” Prices below. 
DELICIOUS JAM RECIPE 
Cover Plums or Cherries with water, add ll 
teaspoons soda, boil till skins break, drain 
through colander, remove pits. Add sugar 
pound for pound. To a moderate sized kettle- 
ful, add one tablespoonful of vinegar, boil 
until thick. Put in jars and seal. 
Hardy CHERRIES 
Best Cherry-Plums 
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. 
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. Plant with 
Hansen bush cherry pollinator. Prices below. 
COMPASS CHERRY — Hardy throughout the 
Northwest and Canada. Fruit is black, of medi- 
um size and good quality. Makes delicious pies, 
preserves, etc. Plant a Hansen Bush Cherry also 
to insure pollination. Prices below. 
SAPA CHERRY—A big purple-red cherry with 
delicious wine red flesh. Thin skinned, small pit. 
Makes pies and sauce of most appetizing color 
and flavor. Often sets fruit second year. Yields 
best if grown as a large bush by pruning se- 
verely—cutting out older growth annually. Plant 
with Hansen Bush Cherry to insure pollination. 
Prices below. 
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CLIMATES 
New Chinese Bush Cherries 
True Cherries from the Orient, selected and im- 
proved at Minn. and Canadian Experiment Stations. 
“NANKING CHERRY “ORIENT’—U. of Minn. se- 
lections from Northern China’s cherries! Grace- 
ful 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 preserves—delicious eaten fresh. 
Often bear second year. Insist on budded stock 
—seedlings are inferior. Plant two or more to 
insure pollination. Prices below. 
KOREAN CHERRY—Dwarf 3'%2 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 pollination. (See page 37.) Prices 
below. 
HANSEN BUSH CHERRY—tThese 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 sensation in bloom. 
Gorgeous for hedges. Plant two to pol- 
linate each other. Prices below. 
PREPAID PRICES! 11842) 6 1gt Or 
True Cherries for the See EACH EACH EACH 
Cherry Growing Regions Pipestone Toka | [2to3ft.........$1.35 $1.30 $1.25 
' Redcoat Kaga FS tOna if ts eet eel anes 1.65 1.55 
- MONTMORENCY — The out- Red Glow Je (FA tO Gift. Gacats eee OG 1.85 1.75 
standing Sour Cherry. Leads Stanley Prune......... y 3 to 4 ft ... 1.80 (2 for $3.45) 
all other varieties for can- Mt. Royal Blue Plum Ae oe ; ¥ ae ; Pe Sis 
ning and market us. Fruits Byes "2 ta 3 cuss: LIS & for $5.48) 
are large, have a CHERRY-PLUMS: : : 
deep, rich red color papal Tk De eam aa fe be eo: ie ee ues 
DOacrcrsieel oovertecae tite 0 mae ree | 1.65 55 
and excellent flavor; Compass............ 4 to 5 ft.. 1.95 1.85 1.75 
unsurpassed for BUSH CHERRIES: 
Ries and canning. Orient Cherry........\ {2to3ft.......... 1.95 (3 for $5.45) 
Ripens late June. repo ae \ES tor dtty neem 2.15 (3 for $5.95) ~ 
Trees bear big Hotta Rube ey 2:t0.3 fires ee endb (3 for $5.85) — 
crops regularly. Hansen Cherry.......... 2.to'3 f= oe eee ab (2 for $1.55) 
Price at right TRUE CHERRIES: | 36 to 42 i : 
5 { 36 to 42in...... 1.95 (3 for $5.45) 
Montmorency.......... | 42 to 48 in. ..... 2.3 (3 for $6.45) 
See the New Cherries and Plums in Color on Pages 36 and 37 
PRICES: PLUMS & CHERRIES 
BO PLUMS from the NORTH 
EUROPEAN TYPE BLUE PLUMS 
HARDY FOR MINNESOTA: 
“STANLEY PRUNE—You home gardeners in 
areas as far north as St. Paul can now grow 
these big, delicious Italian type prunes that 
your grocer ships in from California. Stanley is 
just as big, just as good, and it's hardy for 
southern Minnesota. Very sweet, firm yellow 
flesh. Good for eating fresh-or canning. Self- 
fertile (a single tree bears fruit). See page 36. 
If you live further north, grow the smaller but 
hardier Mt. Royal. 
nt, ROYAL BLUE PLUM—Now you can grow 
these 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. Test- 
ed in Minnesota and Canada for extreme hardi- 
ness. A big yielder and selffertile (a single tree 
will bear fruit). Prices below. 
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Dakota 
Ruby — 
best of the 
Sand Cherries 
American Bush Cherries 
Improved varieties of Sand Cherries from So. 
Dakota Ag. College. ; 
DAKOTA RUBY—Bears clusters. of ruby-red 
cherries with deep red flesh! Fruit makes de- 
licious, sparkling red jelly, jam or sauce, and 
is tasty eaten fresh. The spreading, bushy 
plants grow 3 to 5 feet high, and are orna- 
mental in the home landscape planting. 
