Show Apricots From Asia May lay y Flourish in Dakotas S Brookings S. S D. D D.-Califor- D. Califor California's nias nia's blossoming apricot-blossoming hillsides hillsides hillsides hill hill- sides may soon have rivals on the prairies of the N Northwest North North- orth- orth 1 west where nobody would ever have imagined this fruit to be possible Dr N. N E. E Hansen of the South Dakota State college here has hns an nn Asiatic species which he has been nursing for or about a dozen years and which seems to be quite hardy under the severe climatic conditions of the Dakotas He found the original original original inal trees in northern Manchuria where winter temperatures drop LISlow as LIS low as 48 degrees below zero Fah Fah- Dr Hansen has developed twelve seedling varieties which he considers consid consid- ers to have more than ordinary promise |