TART CHERRY  

CHERRIES AND APRICOT $25.00 EACH

Tart, sour, or pie cherries are self fruitful and much more winter hardy than sweet cherries. Space 12 to 15 feet apart, allow wider spacing for Montmorency.

  METEOR      Naturally dwarf habit growing to about ten feet, compact. Very hardy to at least zone 4.

  NORTHSTAR    Very winter hardy at least to zone 4. Naturally semi dwarf, harvest mid July. From Minnesota, 1952, a cross of English Morello x Serbian Pie Cherry.  

MORDEN 604     A hardy apricot from the Morden Experimental Farm in Manitoba ( 1950?). The fruit is large, golden yellow becoming darker and redder when ripe; the flesh is bright orange, firm and sweet, very fine texture, tender skin., fresh eating and great for canning and other preserves. Zone 3. A nursery catalog from 1951 says about Morden 604 that “ this is a new apricot- so new that it has not been named”- well it never was named.