Show THE GARDEN SPOT Newest Fruits Please Palate By Eldred E. E Green BIG JUICY PLUMS FLUMS large sweet cherries golden apricots No longer longer long long- er er are these fruits store items You too can grow these fine line fruits In your own garden Pioneering in the development of new hardy fruits was the experiment experiment expert expert- ment stall station on at Brookings S. S D. D Here Dr Hansen worked with the wild fruits and interbred them with hardy kinds from other parts of the world Other institutions and persons per per- sons BOns have since added to this and now there are many excellent kinds for the Most of these new plants are just the right size for the home garden Plums are always welcome but the old kinds that came from Europe will not grow well much beyond Pennsylvania except in favorable spots The new American plums have been developed from the wild plum and do not grow into very large trees They can withstand low temperatures and will grow in most any situation Waneta Is a medium size red plum has a red skin and green flesh Sapa is a solid red skin and flesh has redskin ith th a bluish color Red Wing is dark red Monitor is bronzy red Golden Minnesota is a yellow Most of these ese will produce e fruit when only three or four feet high Some Sonic varieties as Sapa can be grown in bush form The plants are very productive Even if it you can grow the older kinds of prune plums these new ones will prove to be beh h highly desirable for eating canning or preserving as well weil as early bear ing Cherries have not been over looked The Hansen Bush Cherry Isa is isa a 0 very large sweet form of the western sand cherry that tha t ia Is hardy and adaptable The fruits are large and produced abundantly oo on me me- height bushes It has bas been Interbred interbred in In- with Asiatic plums to give the plum cherry hybrids These are large sweet like cherry fruits on small bushes Oka has black fruits and Compass has red ones Apricots have been created from hardy Chinese and Manchurian ManchurianS S I plants to give several fine hardy varieties Superb is a deep orange fruit Early Golden is yellow and ripens early in the season Manchu is orange color All are self pal pel- Plums and cherries need cross pollination to insure a good set oi ol fruit so two or more vanities should be included in every planting These new fruits will increase the value and variety of your gardenIn garden In addition there are new early carly apples like the Anoka and Lodi Lodl Mans Ian older vanities of ot apples and ears eart may be obtained as to increase the value ol 01 your Harden garden |