UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN ( USASK) ROMANCE SERIES SEMI-SWEET WINTER HARDY CHERRIES

Traditional sweet cherries are not reliably winter hardy for our location . The U Sask cherries have been developed to offer a cherry that is sweet enough to eat fresh while offering extreme winter hardiness.....available for fall late Oct 2012 grafted onto Mahaleb rootstock ...we will have detailed info on these posted soon

for fall late Oct 2012 Big Late...Carmine Jewel...Crimson Passion...and Juliet

TART CHERRY  

                           1-9 one year old WHIPS  $30.00 EACH         10 - 49 WHIPS  $25.00        50  WHIPS  $20.00     (may be combined with apple , plum , and tart cherry whips for quantity discounts)

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   Not  available again until fall 2013    Naturally dwarf habit growing to about ten feet, compact. Very hardy to at least zone 4

MONTMORENCY    order now for one year old stock ready for planting for late Oct 2012

NORTHSTAR    Not  available again until fall 2013      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.  

APRICOT

APRICOTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

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.