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POLLINIZER PLUMS 
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NEWEST MINNESOTA 
EXPERIMENT STATION PLUMS: 
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. 
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. 
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 
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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, 
Tipens 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. 
RED GLOW—(Minn. 101). 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. 
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| DELICIOUS JAM RECIPE 
| Cover Plums or Cherries with water, add 12 
teaspoons soda, boil till skins break, drain 
through colander, remove pits. Add sugar 
pound for pound. To a moderate sized ketile- 
ful, add one tablespoonful of vinegar, boil 
until thick. Put in jars and seal. 
Hardy CHERRIES $f, 
Best Cherry-Plums 
These delicious hybrid cherry-plums 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. 
N SAPALTA — A big flavorful cherry-plum 
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from Canada. Fruit of Sapa type, but sweeter 
and less cling-stone. Delicious eaten fresh, fine 
for canning, pies, sauce, preserves. Plant with 
Compass 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. Compass is the most effective 
pollinator for Sapa and Sapalta. Prices below. 
SAPA CHERRY—A purple-red cherry-plum 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 Compass Cherry to insure pollination. 
Prices below. 
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True Pie Cherries for All 
The hardy cherries, Meteor and North 
Star are self-fertile — they need no 
Be one 
NEW ‘NORTH STAR — A super hardy 
dwarf tree from U. of Minn. that 
grows 9 to 7 ft. high and matures big, 
glistening, mahogany-red, real pie 
cherries early in July! North Star 
fruits are of superb quality, Morello 
type, free stone, and make luscious 
Climates! 
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NEW METEOR — Exira big, sparkling red, genuine pie 
cherries, loaded on full sized 8 to 10 ft. cherry trees 
that thrive in Minnesota's severe climate! 
MBO PLUMS from the NORTH 
EUROPEAN TYPE BLUE PLUMS 
HARDY FOR MINNESOTA: 
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\\PIPESTONE PLUM—Minnesota's newest "JUM- S'ANLEY 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. Further north, grow the smaller but 
| hardier Mt. Royal. 
T. 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 self-fertile (a single tree 
will bear fruit). Prices below. 
Pipestone 
Jumbo 
Plum 
Above 
Minnesota’s 
new extra hardy pie cherry 
is Meteor, 
These gor- 
geous, big Morello type fruits are meaty, juicy, flavorful 
with thin tender skin and small free pit. Ripen 12 days 
after North Star. 
Prices below. 
PRICES: PLUMS & CHERRIES 
10 or 
pies and sauce of magnificent rich PREPAID PRICES! 1to4 5to9 more 
cherry-red color. These highly orna- PLUMS: EACH EACH EACH 
mental little trees are hardy through- Pipestone Toka pee. CEA 
out Minnesota. Prices below. Redcoat Kaga_ } ; aig coo thee ia 
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Rie ae Stanley Prune......... (3to4ft.......... 1.85 (2 for $3.55) 
popular Sour Cherry for \4toSft......... 218 2°(2 for 415) 
cherry growing regions, but Mt. Royal Blue Pium..... 3.to:4 ft. cae a0 (2 for $3.65) 
not hardy here in SE eee as 
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ular favorite for Compass............ eae : , : 
Saniingeenn : TRUE PIE CHERRIES: 
: 2 ira North Star...............2to2Y% ft....... 2.45 (2 for $4.75) 
et. Fruits are 2% to 3ft........ 295 (2 for 5.75) 
large, have rich (2to3ft.......... 1.95 (2 for $3.75) 
red color, good Meteorse) cere 43 to 3% ft. ...... 2.45 (2 for 4.75) 
flavor. Ripens late 36 'to'5:ft, ee On (2 for 5.75) 
. Pri : Montmorency.......... | 3to4ft.......... 1.35 (2 for $2.55) 
lung aha ceae low 4toSft......... 1.85 (2 for 3.55) 
See the New Cherries and Plums 
in Color on Page 37. 
