Latin Name

Common Name

Description

Malus 'Cortland'

Cortland Apple

An older, well known variety.  Medium sized and bright red with a sprightly tropical flavor.  White flesh holds its color well after being cut.  Excellent for eating and cooking.

Malus 'Fireside'

Fireside Apple

Large, red striped fruit with a sweet, pleasant flavor.  Excellent flavor good for eating.  Good storage life.  One of the most popular apples in MN.  Resistant to cedar apple rust.

Malus 'Honeycrisp'

Honeycrisp Apple

An exciting apple that is exceptionally crisp and juicy.  Flavor that is sweet but well balanced.  Excellent storage life, up to 7 months.  Has been rated equal to or higher in overall quality than Haralson, Honeygold, or Keepsake in winter storage trials.  Ripens in late Sept. and stores like a late season variety.  Has become an outstanding commercial and home orchard variety because of it's explosive crispness, flavor and storage life.  Malus 'Indian Summer' is a good pollinator.

Malus 'Honeygold'

Honeygold Apple

Medium to large, yellow apple.  Fruit is crisp, juicy and sweet.  Excellent for eating as well as for cooking.  Medium storage life.  Similar to Golden Delicious, but hardier.

Malus 'Liberty'

Liberty Apple

A productive variety that was selected for its resistance to apple scab and cedar apple rust.  Crisp and juicy with a sprightly flavor.  Keeps well into February.  Does not require fungicide sprays.

Malus 'McIntosh'

McIntosh Apple

A well known older apple that has a sprightly flavor and a medium storage life.  Nearly solid, bright red skin.  Heavy bearer.  Good for eating and baking.  Fruit tends to drop when ripe.

Malus 'Hat Trick'

Hat Trick Apple

Three outstanding apples on one tree.  Budded and grown as an espalier, trained to grow flat against the wall, this apple tree will produce Honeycrisp, Sweet Sixteen, and Zestar apples.  Three different apples that take up no space at all.  Easy Picking.

Malus 'Wolf River'

Wolf River Apple

Wisconsin 1875.  An old variety, hardy and long lived.  Best known for its large size, up to 5" diameter fruit.  Color is pale yellow to green with carmine-red blushes and stripes.  Primarily used as a cooking apple.

Malus 'Yellow Transparent'

Yellow Transparent Apple

Skin is clear yellow and the flesh is white.  Precocious and productive tree.  Best used for cooking, heavy producer.  Pick before maturity for better storage life.  Scab resistant.

Malus 'Minnesota'

Zestar! Apple

At last, an early apple that is crisp and juicy!  Best know for its excellent sweet tart flavor.  Has a much longer storage life that other early apples.  Excellent for fresh eating and cooking.  Ripens in late August.

Prunus 'Lydecker'

BlackIce Plum

BlackIce is a cross between a cherry plum and a conventional Japanese dessert plum resulting in large fruit with superior winter hardiness and an early ripening date.  Fruit size and yield is comparable to popular conventional cultivars, however, the ripening date is 2-4 weeks earlier.  Naturally compact growth makes it easy to manage.  Use LaCrescent, Underwood, Waneta, or American Plum for pollination.

Prunus 'La Crescent'

LaCrescent Plum

High quality yellow plum.  Fruit is small to medium.  Sweet and Juicy.  Excellent for fresh eating and jams.  Vigorous grower.

Prunus 'Mount Royal'

Mount Royal Plum

Blue European plum.  Good eaten off trees, and excellent for dessert, jam and preserves.  Tender, Juicy flesh.  Considered the best blue cultivar in WI & MN.

Prunus 'Stanley Prune'

Stanley Prune Plum

Blue European plum.  Fruit medium large, flesh greenish yellow.  Produces large annual crop.  Good for fresh dessert, canning, jams and jellies.

Prunus 'Toka'

Toka Plum

One of the best pollinators.  A medium sized, richly flavored variety with beautiful apricot color.

Prunus 'Scout'

Scout Apricot

Fruit is bronze gold, blushed with red.  Good for canning, jam, fair for eating.  Blooms early May.  Self-fruitful.

Prunus cerasus 'Evans Bali'

Evans Bali Cherry

Deep, dark red fruit 1" in diameter and excellent for baking and fresh eating.  The fruit is much sweeter than other sour cherries.  Extremely hardy buds.

Prunus 'Montmorency'

Montmorency Cherry

Large, tart red fruit for pie or preserves.  Fruit firm and juicy.  Vigorous and highly productive.  Home or commercial use.

Pyrus 'Luscious'

Luscious Pear

Juicy, sweet, medium to small bright yellow fruit.  Blooms early May.  Tree globe shaped.  Glossy green foliage, red fall color.  Excellent dessert pear for Northern Great Plains.  Fireblight resistant.  Pollen-sterile, can not be used to pollinate a second pear tree.  Parker is a good pollinator.

Pyrus 'Parker'

Parker Pear

Open pollinated seedling of a Manchurian pear.  Large yellow bronze fruit.  Fine grained, tender and juicy.  Upright and vigorous grower.  Pollinator for Luscious.

Pyrus 'Patten'

Patten Pear

Fruit is of good size and quality.  Very tender and juicy.  A good pollinator for most other pear trees.

Pyrus 'Summercrisp'

Summercrisp Pear

Recognized as the hardiest pear from the U of MN, released in 85.  Free of fireblight.  An annual bearer.  Fruit is pyriform in shape and 2.5-3" in diameter and 3-3.5" long.  Blooms in early May.  The fruit should be harvested in mid August when crisp and still green with a red blush.  Fruit harvested at that time is sweet and crisp, and may be stored for up to 2 months.  Use Parker for pollinator.

Ribes nigrum 'Consort'

Consort Black Currant

Ripens late in the season, black fruits with strong flavor, medium in size and borne in clusters.  The plants are very productive, immune to white pin blister rust, and only moderately susceptible to powdery mildew. 

Ribes 'Red Lake'

Red Lake Currant

Clusters of large bright red berries borne on 2-3 year old wood.  Semi-erect and vigorous.  Very Productive.  Fruits are good for jams and jellies.  

Rubus 'Chester Thornless'

Chester Thornless Blackberry

Chester is a thornless and semi erect variety for blackberry that was developed by the USDA in 85.  Medium to large berries are deep black, round and very sweet.  This is a high quality and high yielding variety and will not soften or lose its color in hot weather.  Reputedly and excellent variety for making Blackberry Wine.

Rubus 'Heritage'

Heritage Raspberry

The medium sized red fruit has a very good flavor and quality.  First Crop mid July, Second crop Sept. 1st.

Vaccinium 'Northblue'

Northblue Blueberry

Plants are short stature, growing 3-4' in height.  Fruit is dark blue, large and attractive with a good blueberry flavor and a pleasing sugar to acid ratio.  Glossy, dark green leaves turning to a deep bright red in fall.  A good plant for the home gardener with winter climates similar to Minneapolis St. Paul.  Makes an ideal shrub for the home landscape.  

Vaccinium 'Northcountry'

Northcountry Blueberry

Recommended for commercial plantings and home gardens.  Fruit is 1/2" in diameter with an attractive sky blue color.  Flavor is sweet and mild.  Partially self fruitful.

Vaccinium 'Patriot'

Patriot Blueberry

Fruit is very large, firm and has small dry recessed scars.  The berry is formed on tight clusters and it tends to be flatter than the other cultivars.  Ripens early.  Excellent flavor.  Bush is upright, open and vigorous.  Excellent landscape variety with showy white blooms in the spring, dark green foliage in the summer and fiery orange fall foliage.  

Vitis 'Catawba'

Catawba Grape

Medium sized coppery red, seedless fruit on a medium to large cluster harvested late season; late September through mid-October.  Flavor is full and sweet.  Good for table use, jam and jelly.  Prized for wine and champagne.  Vigorous, hardy, productive vines.  Fruit keeps until December.

Vitis 'Concord'

Concord Grape

Blue black, excellent for eating.  Medium to large clusters.  Berry size is medium to large.  Vigorous. 

Vitis 'Marquette'

Marquette Grape

A red wine variety that combines cold hardiness and disease resistance with excellent wine quality.  Open and orderly growth habit is highly desirable for efficient vineyard management.  Typically produces two clusters per shoot, eliminating the need for cluster thinning.  Tasters noted an attractive, deep red color, with desirable  aromas of cherry, black pepper and spice.  Not only exciting for the Upper Midwest, but also for Michigan, New England and Quebec.