www.MorseNursery.com Phone: 269-979-4252 9 ft. Hybrid Surprise Reprinted with permission from QDMA’s Quality Whitetails magazine. In fall 2005, QDMA received a house-warming gift for our newly constructed National Headquarters in Georgia – four con- tainerized hybrid oak seedlings from Charlie Morse of Morse 8 ft. Nurseries in Michigan. Charlie admitted he wasn’t sure how these trees would fare in the heat of the South, far from their native grounds, but that was part of his reason for sending them – an experiment of sorts. What are hybrid oaks? Oaks are known to naturally hybridize by pollinating Still Growing The final size across species, producing fertile of the young “sergeant oak” offspring with characteristics of acorns is not yet known. The both parents. White oaks are photos on this page were taken on August 21. especially prone to hybrid- ize with other members of the white oak family. Experts have noted that some offspring Tree Tubes are sold exhibit “hybrid vigor,” which at Morse Nursery means a faster-growing tree. Some observers say they have also noted heavier acorn crops, larger acorns, earlier acorn production, or combinations of these attri- butes. Experts study the physical characteristics of hybrids to try to determine the parent species, but sometimes this is an educated guess. Charlie sent QDMA two “bodacious bur” oaks (thought to be a cross between bur oak and swamp white oak), a burgambels oak (bur x gambels), and a ser- geant oak (English x white). 4 ft. Sprouted by Charlie from Morse Nurseries supports the Quality Deer acorns in spring 2005, they Management Association and recommends were planted in winter 2006. their customers join QDMA to learn more Plastic Tree Tube This spring, the third about improving deer habitat. 4-foot tree shelters like this one protect growing season since plant- seedlings from browsing ing, brought a surprise deer, rubbing bucks and – tiny acorns on two of Name other pests. They also the trees. A bodacious bur Street encourage faster vertical growth by dimming bore two acorns, which City, State, Zip available sunlight except were since aborted dur- at the top. All seedlings ing a summer dry spell (a Daytime Phone ( ) at QDMA headquarters are in tree shelters. common survival strategy Email among oaks). The sergeant 2 ft. oak, meanwhile, bore 15 ❑ 1-yr NEW Adult Membership - $35 immature acorns; nine were aborted, leaving six to ❑ Mastercard ❑ Visa ❑ AmEx mature. Hearing the report, Charlie was pleased with Card # Exp. Date the progress of his experi- ❑ Check # ❑ Money Order # ment. Even in Michigan, it 1 ft. is uncommon for 4-year-old hybrids to bear acorns, he said. Acorns at six years is Fax this form to: 706-353-0223 typical. He speculates that Or Mail to: QDMA, P.O. Box 160, Bogart, GA 30622 Georgia’s significantly lon- Phone Orders: 800-209-3337 ger growing season is Web Orders: www.QDMA.com playing a role.

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Bringing Wildlife to a Tree Near You Sooner! 12300 Betz Road, Battle Creek, MI 49015 Phone 269-979-4252 • www.MorseNursery.com www.facebook.com/morsenursery

Hello, I’m Charlie Morse, thank you for requesting a catalog from us.

At Morse Nursery we grow fruit, nut and berry producing trees and shrubs for wildlife habitat improvement and/or personal enjoyment. Planting trees and shrubs that produce fruit, nuts or berries makes sense as they are a renewable resource and pay for themselves by producing food for many years. Our growing techniques of air root pruned seedlings and RootTrapper containers help our plants get established and produce food faster!

Almost everything we grow is either in a jiffy forestry pellet or RootTrapper container and are not bareroot plants. These containerized plants are much different than bareroot plants in that they are not in transplant shock which can take a bareroot plant three years to recover from. Our plants are delivered with the soil they have been growing in and once planted don’t have to “recover” so they start growing right away. You start to see results right away! This is what I mean when I say “Wildlife, coming to a tree near you…….sooner!” I hope you enjoy reading this brochure as much as I have in producing it.

Because our plants are containerized we can ship year round at your convenience. This catalog does not reflect our inventory so please check our website www.morsenursery.com for availability or call us at 269-979-4252. It’s best to place orders no later than March for best availability as some items start to sell out for spring shipments.

We are happy to help with your selections. Dear Morse Nursery, I ordered Johnny Come Lately Seedlings from you and re- ceived them Spring 2008. They were 3 to 4 inches tall when I received them. I wanted to let you know now September 2008 these trees are 4 feet an over 4 foot tall. They are doing Dear Charlie, EXCELLENT. I am literally amazed at the FAST GROWTH! I was looking over our Hybrid Oak Trees we Thank you so much for a quality product. planted at QDMA Headquarters in Athens Phil Smith Georgia fall of 2006. I was SHOCKED to see Indiana Tiny Acorns on a tree I planted 3 years ago as seedlings! Lindsay Thomas Jr. QDMA Headquarters

Dear Morse Nursery, I want to Thank You for helping me realize my Dear Morse Nursery, dream of planting 500 Oak Trees On my Farm, I planted your Hybrid Oaks in 2006 hoping the trees would start along with Apple Trees. I purchased my first producing acorns earlier than 25 years. Well I didn’t have to wait long large order of seedlings about half of these in 2008 the trees started producing acorns. The trees were 2 years old are already out of their 5 foot tubes. You have when I planted them in 2006 and are now 4 years old. I would recom- provided me with excellent planting stock and mend Morse Nursery to anyone looking to improve their property for advice on tree varieties, and planting tech- wildlife habitat and doesn’t want to wait 25 years for results. niques.. Robert Hintzke Thank you, Franklin, Wisconsin Bud Lake, September 2008 Springport, Michigan

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Frequently Asked Questions

HYBRID PLANTS – Hybrid Plants are naturally VISITING MORSE NURSERY occurring crosses created by open pollina- We are asked many times a year “What are your hours?” Hun- tion that are frequently written about and have dreds of customers a year visit our nursery to pick their plants been known for years. Hybrids are nature’s way up and we look forward to seeing our friends every year, how- of evolving and adapting to a changing world ever, we are not a garden center and have no “Retail hours.” As often becoming superior to its pure species parents. Hybrids the grower, we are not set up for browsing or shopping kinds are simply plants that have naturally cross pollinated in the wild of retail activities. Orders can be placed before your scheduled producing a cross of the two or more parents to produce a new arrival by phone, catalog or on our website. Most orders are species. These hybrids demonstrate a biological vigor that is shipped, but if you’re going to pick up your plants make sure hard to explain. For example a typical white oak may take 25 you schedule your arrival date with us before you come as we years to produce acorns and a bur oak the same amount of will have your plants packaged and ready for you ahead of time, but when crossed, white oak and bur oak (Quercus alba time. Nursery tours are not given, as this is a working farm filled x macrocarpa) become a Bebb’s Oak. Bebb’s oaks have been with many hazards making it impractical for customers to walk known to produce acorns at a very early age 4-8 years from around safely. Directions page 24. seed, WOW! I’m not sure how Mother Nature does the math but I like the answer! This hybrid is superior to both its parents Jiffy Container RootTrapper Container in many ways. First, acorn production at an earlier age, next the white oak improves the sweetness of the bur oak acorns and the bur oak improves the reliability of the white oaks notorious intermittent- ly poor acorn production. The result is a superior hybrid oak as it relates to improving wildlife habitat. Plant breeders have used hybrids to produce new plants for years. Some scientists have devoted their lives to produce, for example, Pear trees that produce tiny pears that won’t lit- ter your yard. These ornamentals are fantastic accomplishments for the landscape industry but are of little value when it comes to feeding wildlife. The same science used to grow trees and shrubs that produce no mess in your yard is the same used to grow trees genetically programmed to do just the opposite. To simply put it, these are trees that are hard to walk un- WHAT IS A JIFFY CONTAINER & ROOTTRAPPER der because there is so much food on the ground, branches so CONTAINER? WHY AIR PRUNING OR TRAPPING? heavily loaded with food that they hang down under their own The picture on the left is a Jiffy Pellet showing air pruned roots, weight or produce food at an earlier age! and the picture on the right is a Root Trapper container. Seed- lings are air root pruned which forces the plant to grow more lateral facing roots than it would naturally. Lateral roots allow MORSE NURSERY GROWS AND BREEDS PLANTS FOR the plant to uptake nutrients and moisture, more lateral roots WILDLIFE HABITAT AND/OR PERSONAL ENJOYMENT! We have plants grown for their unique wildlife attributes such have been linked to trees that produce fruit and nuts sooner. as, large nuts, small nuts, leaf retention, early acorn or fruit When we shift an air-pruned plant into a larger container to drop, late acorn or fruit drop, early branching habit, early acorn grow it longer we use Root Trapper containers. Root Trapper or fruit producing, fruit keeping, taste, cold hardiness, wet sites, containers have as special double spun bound fabric laminated dry sites, sandy to clay soils, wide range of pH adaptability plus to the inside. When the air pruned seedling roots come in con- they are container grown, roots air pruned or trapped to pro- tact with the sidewall of this container, instead of circling they mote lateral rooting. This helps improve your success of estab- wiggle into the fabric and become trapped. This trapped root lishing seedlings because air pruned or trapped roots store en- signals the root behind the tip to grow more lateral roots con- ergy and this stored energy helps new roots explode into the tinuing the process that air pruning started through trapping. top soil when they’re planted. These containerized plants avoid transplant shock, so you can see results sooner! Communicate-Engage-Interact with us!

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TREES Edible & Crab Apples for Wildlife ORNAMENTALS WITH WILDLIFE VALUE Oaks Chestnut Crab...... 8 Flowering Dogwood...... 16 Dwarf Chinkapin (Michigan Strain)...... 9 Crab Apple Collection...... 9 Washington Hawthorne...... 23 Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Dolgo...... 9 SHRUBS (Canadian Strain) zone 2...... 9 Double Red...... 9 Alder...... 5 Hybrid Oaks Hyslop...... 16 American Highbush Cranberry...... 5 A Hybrid Oak Collection...... 16 Johnny Come Lately...... 17 Apache Blackberry...... 5 Bebb’s Oak...... 6 Kerr...... 17 Arrowwood Viburnum...... 5 Bimundors Oak...... 6 Morse Big Crab...... 18 Bayberry...... 6 Bodacious Bur...... 6 Nova Scotia...... 19 Black Choke Berry...... 6 Bur x Chestnut Oak...... 7 Red Crab Bunches & Bunches...... 7 Cornelian Cherry...... 8 Bur English...... 7 Thicket Crab...... 23 Dwarf Chinkapin (Michigan Strain)...... 9 Bur x Gamble Late...... 7 Whitney Crab...... 24 Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Bur x Gamble Oak...... 7 Yellow Crab Bunches & Bunches..... 7 (Canadian Strain) zone 2...... 9 Chinkapin x Chestnut Oak...... 8 Pear Blue Elderberry...... 6 English Fastigate...... 9 Bartlett Pear...... 5 Hazelnut American/Beak...... 16 English Wide...... 9 Comice Pear...... 8 Nanking Cherry...... 19 Jack Oak...... 17 Hybrid Pear...... 16 Nannyberry...... 19 Morse Hybrid Oak...... 18 Kieffer Pear...... 17 Ninebark...... 19 Morse Swamp White Oak...... 18 Seckel Pear...... 21 Northern Bay Berry...... 19 Ooti Bebbs Oak...... 19 Wild Pear...... 24 Redosier Dogwood...... 20 Sargent Oak #5...... 20 OTHER FRUIT Silky Dogwood...... 21 Sargent Oak #7...... 20 Apache Blackberry...... 5 Spicebush...... 21 Sauls Oak...... 20 Catawba Grape...... 7 Staghorn Sumac...... 21 Sawtooth...... 20 Concord Grape...... 8 Thicket Plum...... 23 Schuettes Oak...... 21 Cornelian Cherry...... 8 Thicket Crabapple...... 23 Ware...... 23 Grafted Persimmon...... 16 Thicket Serviceberry...... 23 Larger Meader Persimmon...... 18 Thicket Willow...... 23 Instant Oaks...... 17 Morse Apricot...... 18 PLANTING AIDS FRUIT Morse Persimmon...... 18 Mycor Tree Saver...... 11 Three Times a Charm “TTC”...... 22 Morse Persimmon Female...... 18 Nutri-Pak Time Release Fertilizer....11 **Arkansas Black...... 5, 22 Mulberry...... 19 Planting Instructions...... 10 Cider/Hard Cider...... 8, 22 Pin Cherry...... 20 Tree Protectors/Shelters (Tree Tubes)... 11 Enterprise...... 22 Stanley Plum...... 21 Vinyl Tree Wraps...... 11 Golden Delicious...... 16 Sweet Cherry...... 21 ABOUT MORSE NURSERY FAQ Goldrush...... 22 CHESTNUTS & OTHER NUTS Customer Testimonials...... 2 **Grimes Golden...... 22 American/Chinese Chestnut...... 5 Hybrid Plants...... 1, 3 Honeycrisp...... 22 Chinese Chestnut...... 8 Jiffy Forestry & Root Jonafree...... 22 Colossal x Okei...... 8 Trapper Containers...... 3 Liberty...... 22 Dwarf Korean Chestnut...... 9 Order Form...... 14, 15 Redfree...... 22 Grafted Chestnuts ...... 16 Policies...... 13 Snowsweet...... 22 Hazelnut American/Beak...... 16 Pricing and Ordering Information.. 12 Sweet Sixteen...... 22 Layeroka...... 17 Seedlings vs. Cloned Wolf River...... 22, 24 CONIFERS Plants Explained...... 24 Yellow Delicious...... 22 Norway Spruce...... 19 Why We Don’t Grow Zestar...... 22 Tamarack...... 21 Plants By Size...... 24 White Spruce...... 23 Directions...... 24

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www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 4 + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only ALDER + APACHE BLACKBERRY ++ This is a great naturalizing plant for Most people wouldn’t think of using wet areas along streams or around a blackberry as a shrub to screen food ponds. Provides great cover and plots, or to use along a forest edge, browse and is easy to establish thick- but this plant is nothing short of un- ets with this plant. Bucks will stage believable! It can grow to 8’ in one in these thickets just before dark and year and retain its leaves throughout rubs are very common. the winter, making it an ideal browse plant. Apache Blackberry can serve Zones: 3-6 as a great border shrub or a cover Specialization: Naturalizing Zones: 4-8 Soil Type: Widely adaptable plant, all while providing great food Specialization: Food and cover Soil Moisture: Wet to Moist for humans or wildlife. Fruits from Soil Type: Widely adaptable Growth Rate: Very fast Soil Moisture: Well Drained this plant are enormous, averaging Can Produce Fruit In: 2 years 9.5 grams each, and this plant will Fruit/Nut Size: Huge sucker to produce new vines, which AMERICAN/CHINESE CHESTNUT + can be moved to other locations or left to allow dense thickets. The Apache Blackberry doesn’t technically fall under the definition This American Chestnut is located of “Shrub”, but with performance like this, we’ll let you decide on on a very old and exclusive country your own! club in Battle Creek, Michigan. This old fellow has managed to resist the chestnut blight and appears to be ARKANSAS BLACK +++ at least 100 years old! Seedlings are I have been asked by many of our grown from seed collected from this southern customers to offer up graft- tree and are pollinated by nearby ed Arkansas Black Apples because of Zones: 3-8 Chinese Chestnuts. Hopefully, these their low chill hours need to produce seedlings will exhibit more blight re- Specialization: The original whitetail food Can Produce Fruit In: 5-7 years fruit. This apple ripens in October sistance than even that of the parent Fruit/Nut Size: Large-Sweet-Edible and drops through November here tree. Before chestnut blight wiped in Michigan. Excellent eating and out our American Chestnuts, whitetails relied heavily upon the storing apple and interestingly de- abundant large, sweet nuts as a dietary staple, enjoying them even velop a sweeter taste the longer they Zones: 4-8 more than white oak acorns. Plant a few of these Chestnuts and lay on the ground or on your shelf. Specialization: Late Drop you will discover that they are an incredible whitetail draw, right Soil Type: Wide Range Deer will dig these out of the show Soil Moisture: Well Drained up there with apples! Take the time now to enhance your property long after they have fallen for their with an additional mast crop that was once one of the monarchs sweet treat! of the forest. ARROWWOOD VIBURNUM ++ AMERICAN HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY ++ This plant grows in the form of a cov- er plant that is just great for Whitetail This plant is colonial propagated bedding areas! Arrowwood Virbur- from the largest Cranberry bush num is stimulated when browsed to I’ve ever seen in the wild! What this grow more branches. It produces means for you is that seedlings will berries in partial shade, and one of be exact clones of this bush. Abun- its more interesting features is that dant red fruit, with berries persist- Indians made arrows from its very ing into the winter that are eaten straight stems, thus the name “Ar- Zones: 2-8 here on our farm by pheasants, tur- Specialization: Suckers, Colonizes rowwood”. Bowhunters can use this Soil Type: Wide Range Zones: 2-8 keys, whitetails, rabbits and birds. Soil Moisture: Well Drained Specialization: Thicket forming with berries plant to feed whitetails and them- Can Produce Fruit In: 2 years The suckering habit of this plant will Soil Type: Wide Range selves, if you follow my thinking! Growth Rate: Medium form very nice cover or visual screens Can Produce Fruit in: First year and is browse tolerant. Browsing will Fruit/Nut Size: Small actually stimulate the plant to put out more branches. Highbush BARTLETT PEAR ++ Cranberry will grow in a wide variety of soil types. Here’s a little Bartlett pears are very well-liked by tip for thicker screens: In the fall, lay down some of the branches and pin them to the ground with a landscape staple. Where the wildlife, as well as being great for branch makes contact with the ground is where a new plant will eating out of hand. This pear tree take root. Over time, you can build screening as thick as any hedge is also self-pollinating, making it easy with this method. to grow and produce fruit. Pear trees are generally very drought tolerant and easier to grow than apple trees, making them ideal for both orchards and out of the way food plots. You Zones: 4-8 Specialization: Can produce fruit in 3-5 yrs can expect very vigorous growth Soil Type: Sandy to Clay rates of up to 3-4’ per year. Soil Moisture: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast

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This plant grows as Specialization: Large fruit size Soil Type: Any including poor soils Soil Type: Wide Range Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry a shrub, often forming dense thick- Soil Moisture: Prefers moist Can Produce Fruit In: 2-3 years ets by way of root suckers. Fantastic Can Produce Fruit In: First year Fruit/Nut Size: Small for borders, stream banks, and road- Fruit/Nut size: Nearly 1/2 inch Growth Rate: Medium to fast Growth Rate: Fast sides. It’s great for cover, browse and berries enjoyed by birds including turkeys, pheasants, and people! BEBB’S OAK HYBRID + The berries can easily be made into jam or jellies. While you’re This is simply a terrific find for me looking at this shrub, consider pairing it with Arrowwood Viburnum! and you! This tree is within a whisker of being Michigan’s state champion. BODACIOUS BUR HYBRID + Acorns can develop on these hybrids as soon as 4-8 years. Bebbs Oak is a You have got to hear this! When I cross between a White Oak and a Bur discovered this tree in 2002 it pro- Oak. This oak produces sweet acorns duced 750 lbs of acorns, 550 lbs in 2003 and in 2004, After eval- preferred by whitetails every year. 1070 lbs Just look at the size and age of this Zones: 3-9 uating for three years I was hooked, Specialization: Produces acorns young sold and in love. The branches lit- tree and you know your seedlings are Soil Type: Widely adaptable erally droop from the weight of the getting some fantastic genes! I will Soil Moisture: Wide range (no standing water) acorns. I’ve never seen anything like be planting some of these seedlings Can Produce Fruit in: 4-8 years Fruit/Nut size: Medium-Very Sweet this Bur Oak before for prolific acorn here on my own farm….that’s how Zones: 3-9 Growth Rate: Vigorous production. The biological vigor of Specialization: Can produce fruit in 4-8 yrs impressed I am! Precocious Bearing: Yes this tree can only be explained by it Soil Type: Widely adaptable being a naturally occurring hybrid. It Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry appears that it might be crossed with Growth Rate: Fast Fruit/Nut Size: Huge a Swamp White Oak. Bur x Swamp BIMUNDORS OAK HYBRID + White Oaks are referred to as Schuettes Oak and have been writ- This hybrid is from our Native White ten about and well documented for their ability to produce acorns Oak and the very long-lived English at an early age. I really like Bur Oak hybrids for wildlife plantings because of their ability to out-compete every grass and weed in Oak. English Oaks have been known any site, period! This is one very competitive tree that you won’t to reach the ripe old age of 1,000 need to pamper, ideal for anyone with the desire, but not neces- years, and this characteristic of sarily the time to devote to their plantings. long-lived genes, combined with our White Oak has got to be a huge plus in terms of producing healthy seed- BLUE ELDERBERRY ++ lings in combination with the added Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Acorns early Height 5, Width 12. Elderberry is a benefits of hybridization! This hybrid Soil Type: Wide Range has the additional benefit of being Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years large suckering shrub excellent for alongside another Bidmundors Oak Fruit/Nut Size: Average wildlife habitat. Fruit makes great jel- Growth Rate: Fast ly or wine. There is lots of talk about with the same characteristics, making Precocious Bearing: Yes the seedlings much more likely to be deer beds in the Whitetail commu- true F-1 prospects from seed! I have often asked myself, how is it nity. Some of the components need- that Battle Creek, MI has so many interesting trees? I’ve become ed for deer beds are this 10-12 foot convinced through my research that Dr. Kellogg (from Kellogg’s overhead canopy which Elderberry Cereal fame) had something to do with it. Dr. Kellogg brought a provides. Plus it has the ability to Zones: 3-9 Soil Moisture: Moist number of black squirrels to the city and those animals may have grow in filtered light and on edges. Fruit/Nut Size: Small red berries brought the diversity of English Oaks in their cheeks that we see Specialization: Cover and Food today. These hybrids produced Specialization: Can produce fruit very heavy amounts of sweet in partial shade acorns and are annual producers! If you are looking for fast, annual-producing oaks, then this should be on your short list of must-plant hybrid oaks.

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One tray is brown in color Zones: 3-7 would plant this around food plots, Specialization: Early fruit drop and are fully ripe, this is when they Soil Type: Wide Range Soil Type: Widely Adaptable Soil Moisture: Wide Range property lines, and under power Soil Moisture: Prefers Well Drained start to fall from the tree. The second (no standing water) lines for sure-fire deer attraction! Growth Rate: Moderate tray if you look closely are still green Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years and are 2-3 weeks away from ripen- Growth Rate: Fast Precocious Bearing: Yes ing both were picked the same day. BUNCHES & BUNCHES OF RED CRABAPPLE + When ordering Bur x Gambel hybrids it would be a great idea to plant both varieties as to have a staggered acorn drop. The seed collected from this crabapple is from several trees growing together for the past 15 years. I’ve watched these trees produce very heavy crops BUR X GAMBEL OAK HYBRID + every year. The size of the apples is You can have acorns, fast! Bur X Gam- very large for a crab, averaging over bel is an incredible tree. This hybrid 1”, and persists on the trees until is a unique cross between Bur Oak spring, making it a fantastic late winter and Gambel Oak, both in the white food source. Plant with Morse Yellow Zones: 3-8 oak family, and have sweet acorns Crab for availability throughout the Specialization: Fruit persists all winter season. Branches are so loaded with Soil Type: Widely Adaptable produced at an early age. This hybrid apples that they actually hang on the Soil Moisture: Prefers Well Drained cross with Bur Oak will still produce a ! I would use this tree as a bor- Can Produce Fruit in: 3-5 years very large tree, but smaller than our ground Fruit/Nut size: 1 inch der around food plots, property lines, native Bur, with lots of acorns. If you Zones: 3-7 Growth Rate: Moderate Soil Type: Wide Range and under powerlines. Fall Color: Red like the sound of this tree, look at our Soil Moisture: Wide Range English Wide Oak also! Bur X Gam- (no standing water) bel has reportedly started acorn pro- Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Growth Rate: Fast BUR X CHESTNUT OAK + duction as early as 4 feet in height. Precocious Bearing: Yes As with all hybrids, acorn production Very productive and produces large usually starts at a much earlier age because of a biological vigor acorns at a young age. This hybrid caused by the hybridization. This tree is from Utah Zone 4/5 and is will grow in a wide range of soils from very winter hardy. grassy fields to dry ridges and rocky sites. Parent trees have produced every year and have strong central CATAWBA GRAPE ++ leaders. Good selection for both tim- ber and acorn production. Catawba is a light red grape native to Seedlings: $12.50 Zones: 3-9 the US and thought to be a hybrid of Soil Type: Wide Range 1 year potted: $16.50 Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry other indigenous varieties. Original- 2 year potted: $20.50 Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years ly discovered along North Carolina’s Growth Rate: Fast Catawba River, it is a light red grape. Cuttings come from my good friend Ken Holcomb’s vineyard in “Joppa BUR ENGLISH HYBRID + Valley” of East Leroy, MI. Ken taught me how to make wine and has been Zones: 3-8 This is a terrific hybrid. That’s about Can Produce Fruit In: 2-3 years all I can say in regard to it. Bur oak making wine in the area for more Soil Type: Wide Range than 30 years. He’s always been very Soil Moisture: Well Drained is a tough tree that can grow almost anywhere. If you have adverse soil generous with his time and resourc- conditions, please consider this as es, letting me run around his farm, but it’s hard for even me to a viable option. It has the ability to get him to part with a bottle of the wine he makes from these compete with grasses and weeds Catawbas. during the establishment years, so if you can’t tend to your plots with reg- Zones: 3-9 Specialization: Acorns at an early age ularity, please think about this tree Soil Type: Widely adaptable as a solution. Bur English oaks have Soil Moisture: Widely adaptable some of the sweetest acorns I have Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Fruit/Nut size: Large ever tasted, they produce an annual crop, and they will grow almost anywhere!

7 www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only CHESTNUT CRAB ++ COLOSSAL X OKEI HYBRID CHESTNUT + Chestnut Crab is one of the large This hybrid is a cross between two fruiting selections (2+”), known for blight resistant chestnut trees that its sweet, nutty flavor. It tastes like are both noted for producing some fresh squeezed apple cider and it’s of the largest nuts of all Chestnut my favorite apple to eat from my trees, averaging between 12-18 nuts orchard, which has over 25 varieties per pound. These large, sweet nuts to choose from! The fruit hangs well are grown for their taste, loved by into the season and is a great attrac- whitetails, and in just 4-5 years, these tant for whitetails. This is a must have Zones: 3-8 trees will start producing from seed- Zones: 5-8 Specialization: Cold Hardy Specialization: Large Nut Production for anyone growing large fruiting cra- Soil Type: Wide Range lings! Plant two or more together for Soil Type: Well Drained bapples for wildlife, and it serves as a Soil Moisture: Well Drained cross pollination. Growth Rate: 2-3 feet per year great pollinator for other apple trees. Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years Fruit/Nut Size: Huge Fruit size: 2-3 inches We add the juice from these crabap- Growth Rate: Fast ples to our cider in the fall, and it’s COMICE PEAR + always a big hit with our friends and family. Chestnut Crab just Comice are a late ripening pear that might be the secret ingredient to many blue ribbons given at state starts dropping its fruit in October, fairs for the best cider! and finishes up in November. It is completely self-pollinating, but gets CHINESE CHESTNUT + better fruit sets when planted with another variety of pear. This tree is The tank of Chestnuts. Very cold, har- growing in a low water table loca- dy and blight resistant. These trees tion, looks to be around 50 years old, are next to a very old and rare Ameri- and has seen its share of wet springs Zones: 4-8 can Chestnut, and most likely, some Soil Moisture: Well Drained without root rotting problems, mak- of the seedlings have hybridized with to somewhat moist ing it an ideal candidate for moist Soil Type: Wide Range this American Chestnut rarity. Very soils, especially in those transition Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years sweet chestnuts that are completely Fruit size: Typical for Pear areas between wet and dry ground. edible by humans, and highly prized Growth Rate: Fast Specialization: Tolerates moist soils by wildlife. Hard to believe, but Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Large Super Sweet Chestnuts these nuts are preferred by whitetails Soil Type: Well Drained over our sweet White Oak acorns! Can Produce Fruit In: 4-5 years Fruit/Nut size: Large-Sweet-Edible CONCORD GRAPE ++ Fall Color: Yellow to Bronze These Concord grapes are what we make out family wine from! Grapes are enjoyed by many animals, in- CHINKAPIN X CHESTNUT OAK + cluding Whitetails, who like the fruit You can see from the photo’s the influ- and the foliage. As with all seeded ence of the Dwarf Chinkapin, as this grapes, you get the most intense fla- trees has branching all the way down vors. Grape vines are very long lived, the trunk of the tree. This tree will be some reaching 75 years and older. a large tree but has the chance of be- Zones: 4-9 Specialization: Vine ing semi dwarf as well. We planted this Soil Type: Wide Range hybrid oak out from seeds about 2005. Given to us in a seed exchange from an urban forester from Kansas who is Zones: 3-9 CORNELIAN CHERRY ++ as “nutty” as we are about hybrid oaks. Soil Type: Wide Range Good find Mr. Forester! Trees produced Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry Cornelian Cherry is an interesting Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years dogwood. These shrubs produce a for us in 5 years here in Michigan. Growth Rate: Fast ton of fruit for their size as you can see from the pictures. Grows best in full sun but like many dogwoods will CIDER/HARD CIDER APPLE TREES +++ do very well in partial shade mak- Winesap, Golden Russet, Spitzen- ing it a good choice for edges. The burg, Grimes, Golden, Spy, Dabi- game birds love this fruit! The Eu- ropeans are crazy about the fruit as Zones: 4-8 nett, Chestnut Crab, and Arkansas they use it in many of their recipes in Specialization: Bush Cherry Black. Call Nursery for availability Soil Type: Well Drained some of the best restaurants in Eu- before ordering. Growth Rate: Slow rope. We have made both wine and Fruit: Edible 1 year: $24.50 jam from our fruit and I have to admit 2 year: $29.50 it’s a “waiting to be discovered” fruit here in America.

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CRAB APPLE COLLECTION ++ DWARF CHINKAPIN OAK (CANADIAN STRAIN) + Can’t make up your mind? Order our Canadian Strain is the same plant as “Collection” package. This package Dwarf Chinkapin with the difference is simply a collection of all of our dif- of being extremely cold hardy. (Zone ferent types of crabapple trees. Just 2) Dwarf Chinkapin is a shrubby/ order the quantity of trees that you bush to small tree form oak that pro- want, and we’ll send you a variety duces acorns in three to five years of everything that we have growing. from seed making it one of the fast- We almost called this our “Forrest est acorn producing oaks we offer. Gump” package, you never know Zones: 4-8 Acorns are small but very sweet and Zones: 3-8 what you’re going to get! Seriously, Specialization: Collection Specialization: Bush form early Soil Type: Wide Range are preferred by many animals espe- acorn production this is an excellent choice for anyone Soil Moisture: Well Drained cially turkeys and whitetails. Acorns Soil Type: Clay to Sand wanting to grow some crabapple Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years are very difficult to collect in quantity Fruit/Nut Size: Small trees for wildlife. *Available in 1 or 2 Fruit/Nut size: Various Soil Moisture: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast because as a bush, just about every year potted only, no seedlings. animal has access to these tasty acorns, making availability of this oak always in short supply. We have to cage ours, then we put net- DOLGO CRAB + ting over the top, set out decoy Owls and big balloons that look The Dolgo Crabapple has very large, like big eye balls to deter the animals from eating all of the acorns. dark purple fruit that is packed with I know, this is starting to sound like we use to walk to school uphill flavor compared to other crabs! both ways. Sincerely one of my favorite oaks! These apples make great jellies, and some folks add the juice to ciders as DWARF KOREAN CHESTNUT + a secret ingredient. The fruit is easy This chestnut is more of a bush rather for wildlife to get to, as this crab will than a tree. Mature plants grow to drop its fruit during August/Septem- about 10’ in height to about 15’ in ber (early drop). Zones: 4-8 width. Nuts are very sweet and pro- Specialization: Large Crabapple Fruit Soil Type: Clay to Sandy duce at a young age. Ideal for food Growth Rate: Fast plot boarders and around fruit tree Soil Moisture: Well Drained orchards as these won’t shade out plants around them. DOUBLE RED + Zones: 4-9 Soil Moisture: Well Drained This selection is a very nice addition Soil Type: Wide Range Can Produce Fruit In: 4-5 years to our large fruited varieties of cra- Growth Rate: Fast bapples. Outside and inside color is Specialization: Small sized tree or bush red! This is a very productive crab, producing large amounts of fruit ev- ENGLISH FASTIGATE HYBRID + ery year, and the fruit drops through- English Fastigate is an upright grow- out September, October and No- ing hybrid that produces sweet vember, with additional fruit hanging acorns at a very early age and retains on well into December. This tree Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Late Drop its leaves late into the winter. This is started producing in its third year for Soil Moisture: Well Drained a great hybrid to plant around food us. This would make a great addi- Soil Type Wide: Range plots and fruit trees. Because of their tion to any crabapple selection when Can Produce In: 3-5 Years Growth Rate: Fast upright growth, these oaks won’t building wildlife habitats! shade out your plots or orchard. Oaks and Fruit trees together have Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Fast producer/Leaf retention DWARF CHINKAPIN (MICHIGAN STRAIN) + not been an option until now! Soil Type: Most but thrives in Heavy Clays Soil Moisture: Most except wet Dwarf Chinkapin is a shrubby/bush Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years to small tree form oak that pro- Fruit/Nut Size: Med-Large duces acorns in three to five years Growth Rate: Fast from seed making it one of the fast- est acorn producing oaks we offer. ENGLISH WIDE + Acorns are small but very sweet and This oak has some of the largest, are preferred by many animals espe- sweetest acorns I have ever found cially turkeys and whitetails. Acorns (it’s better than White Oak). The are very difficult to collect in quan- Zones: 3-8 branches are close to the ground Specialization: Bush form early tity because as a bush, just about ev- acorn production and make for easy pickings for White- ery animal has access to these tasty Soil Type: Clay to Sand tails. This oak has a low branching acorns, making availability of this oak Fruit/Nut Size: Small quality that makes it a great screen- Soil Moisture: Well Drained always in short supply. We have to ing or border tree. English Oaks can cage ours, then we put netting over the top, set out decoy Owls reach 50 feet tall and 50 feet wide! Zones: 3-7 Specialization: Low branching and big balloons that look like big eye balls to deter the animals The leaves tend to stay green and Soil Type: Thrives in heavy or clay from eating all of the acorns. I know, this is starting to sound like not change colors into the fall, which Fruit/Nut Size: Very large sweet we use to walk to school uphill both ways. Sincerely one of my has allowed me to find them in the Fall Color: Stays green favorite oaks! wilds of Michigan.

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You will find the Logo next to the following plants: • Hybrid Plants • Plants cloned from cuttings or grafted

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROOT TRAPPER BAGS (See picture of these shown to the right)

1. The plant MUST BE REMOVED FROM THIS BAG BEFORE PLANTING IN THE GROUND. 2. Carefully cut from top to bottom the Root Trapper bag and peel back the bag from the roots. Try to remove your plant from the bag with all the soil or as much of the soil and root system as you can intact. 3. Insert plant into previously dug hole after you have removed it from the bag. Water your plant twice, once to bring up the air bubbles and then water a second time to settle the soil and ensure it makes good soil contact will all roots. 4. Make sure that your plant is not planted too deep or too high. Look for where the old soil line is on your plant and make sure that it is slightly lower 1/4” than level with the ground. 5. Larger trees that are 4’-5’ in height should be staked so the root system doesn’t move around during the first year of root establishment. 6. Mulch is also an excellent practice for weed control, maintaining moist cool soils and providing an insulation barrier from very cold conditions that allow earlier root RootTrapper Bags development. 7. If you are using our pre-packaged slow release fertilizer be sure to bury plastic bag and all 6-8”away and 6’8” deep from the plant. 8. Water plants often all summer long, as lack of water in the first year is among the top reasons plants are lost.

If you’re not going to plant all these right away do not worry, you don’t have to! Just water them when they need it. Try to keep them out of the wind so they don’t dry out fast. However, make sure you take them out of the box and out of the clear plastic bags used to hold the soil in place during shipping.

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR JIFFY PELLET PLANTS (See picture of these shown to the right)

1. Jiffy pellets are shipped from Morse Nursery ready to go directly into the ground as is. 2. DO NOT remove the paper or mesh from the plant, it is 100% biodegradable. Plant the whole thing in the ground as this prevents transplant shock. 3. Plant in the ground up to the top of the plug (not over). If the soil goes over the top of the plug, it can girdle the tree trunk. 4. Fill soil in around the tree gently and water it good. Do not compact the soil with your foot, this can damage the root system. 5. Mulch is an excellent practice for weed control, (so the roots do not have to compete with the weeds) plus it helps provide an insulation barrier from very cool conditions, and helps keep moisture in the ground. Jiffy Pellet Plants 6. Water plants often all summer long, as lack of water in the first year is among the top reasons plants are lost.

If you’re not going to plant all of these right away, do not worry you don’t have to! Just water them when they need it, try to keep them out of the wind so they don’t dry out fast. However, make sure you take them out of the box and out of the clear plastic bags used to hold the soil in place during shipping. www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 10 Nutri-Pak Time Mycor® Tree Saver® Release Fertilizer This product is designed to reduce NEW! transplant stress while improving soil - Easy to use plant hydration and fertility. Mycor® Tree whole thing in ground Saver® is a biologically active soil conditioner It is a controlled-release that is applied to the root zone of trees and shrubs fertilizer. Its composition at planting time. Five species of mycorrhizal fungi is ideal for trees and and six species of beneficial bacteria are packed shrubs (16-8-8). It comes into this formula to improve plant nutrition and soil in a plastic packet with fertility. The fungi absorb water and minerals for micro-pores that allow the roots while the bacteria fix nitrogen, solubilize the fertilizer to be released into the soil at a controlled rate. The phosphorus, and biodegrade organic matter making trapped contents are dissolved over time by water vapor entering the minerals accessible to plants. Mycor® Tree Saver® also contains pores. It is easy to use – no measuring, mixing, or cleaning up. formononetin, a naturally occurring stimulant of VA mycorrhizal Plant it and forget it. Nutri-Pak fertilizer increases growth rate fungi, Terra-Sorb® hydrogel that traps water and holds it in up to 25 percent. It supplies key nutrients for up to five years the root zone, and humic acids which improve availability of and only during the growing season. It eliminates the danger of mineral nutrients. Seaweed meal and yucca plant extract are burning the roots of young trees. added as organic nutrients to support establishment of microbial populations. $2.00 each Mycor® Tree Saver®: Tree Protectors/Shelters • Improves absorption of water and minerals from the soil (Tree Tubes) • Stimulates native and inoculated VAM fungal growth and Our Tree Tube protects and nourishes the Colonization of roots tree and they will grow up big and strong. • Helps plants mitigate adverse environmental stresses such as Tree Tubes are designed to give added drought, salinity, and extremes of soil pH protection to your trees while providing a “mini-greenhouse” for enhanced growth. Must be ordered with plants, as this is how the product is Research shows that tree tubes can shipped. Comes in 3 oz. packets. One 3 oz. Pack will treat 6 jiffy increase tree height 600 percent in just the pellet seedlings or 3 Roottrapper container plants. first two years. Tree Tubes promote the build up of moisture around the tree. Tree $5.00 per package Tubes also promote straightness. They help prevent the formation of crooked and gnarled trees. Tree Tubes also help prevent the plant from being eaten by wildlife while Hours too young to survive. Tree Tubes usually stay on the tree for 5 to Monday-Friday, 9:00-5:00 Eastern Standard Time 7 years. Here at the farm we have thousands of the tubes on our Saturday by appointment for pickup trees. Closed June 1 - September 15 for Production

$5.50 each pack of 25 is $137.50 includes shipping. 50 pack is Our hours may vary due to season. In addition, we are a $275.00 including shipping. (Call for large orders over 100 tubes) working farm and may be away from the nursery office working in the field, collecting seed or in our greenhouses. Vinyl Tree Wraps - Please call in advance if you are planning to pick up Quick, Easy Installation “Preordered” trees. Protects young tree trunks from rodent damage and sunscald. Tree wraps are easy to apply and may be removed. They are economical and reusable, and may be used on fruit trees. There are holes punched in material to allow for air and moisture circulation. The tree wrap can be easily cut to make it shorter lengths. To use, start at the base of tree and wrap upward.

$1.25 each*

* These are included in the price of all fruit trees, Apple, Pear, Crabapple • All “Three Times A Charm” • All Pear & Crabapple

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Terms and Payment Full payment due when order is placed. We accept Check, Money Order, Discover, Master Card, Visa and AMEX, AMEX + 4%.

Pricing Per Plant - Individual Seedling Cannot be Mixed for quantity price breaks.

Jiffy Containers - Seedlings Minimum Order $75 Number of Trees Purchased 1-7 8 16 32 64 128 Shipping Price Each Seedlings 11.50 7.50 7.00 6.50 6.00 5.50 1-8 plants $20.00 Price Each Seedling “Select” 13.50 9.50 9.00 8.50 8.00 7.50 9-32 plants $30.00 33-64 plants $34.00 Root Trapper #5 Container MUST be ordered in groups of 10 for shipping reasons – Individual plant types CAN be combined/mixed to fill a box of 10 and will qualify for quantity price breaks. See Example below.

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container All Plants, except Non-Grafted Chestnut, Crabapple and Pear (see below for Separate Pricing) Number of Trees Purchased 1-9 10 20-40 50-70 80-90 100+ Shipping 1 Year Old price each 16.50 12.50 12.00 11.50 11.00 10.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 1 Year Old “Select” price each 18.50 14.50 14.00 13.50 13.00 12.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old price each 20.50 16.50 16.00 15.50 15.00 14.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old “Select” price each 22.50 18.50 18.00 17.50 17.00 16.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 3 Year Old price each 28.50 24.50 24.00 23.50 23.00 22.50 Call Nursery for pricing 3 Year Old “Select” each 30.50 26.50 26.00 25.50 25.00 24.50 Call Nursery for pricing

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container Non-Grafted Crabapples, Pears Number of Trees Purchased 1-9 10 20-40 50-70 80-90 100+ Shipping 1 Year Old price each 17.50 13.50 13.00 12.50 12.00 11.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 1 Year Old “Select” price each 19.50 15.50 15.00 14.50 14.00 13.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old price each 21.50 17.50 17.00 16.50 16.00 15.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old “Select” price each 23.50 19.50 19.00 18.50 18.00 17.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 3 Year Old price each 29.50 25.50 25.00 24.50 24.00 23.50 Call Nursery for pricing 3 Year Old “Select” each 31.50 27.50 27.00 26.50 26.00 25.50 Call Nursery for pricing

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container Non-Grafted Chestnuts Number of Trees Purchased 1-9 10 20-40 50-70 80-90 100+ Shipping 1 Year Old price each 19.50 15.50 15.00 14.50 14.00 13.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 1 Year Old “Select” price each 21.50 17.50 17.00 16.50 16.00 15.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old price each 23.50 19.50 19.00 18.50 18.00 17.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old “Select” price each 25.50 21.50 21.00 20.50 20.00 19.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 3 Year Old price each 31.50 27.50 27.00 26.50 26.00 25.50 $48 per 10 plants

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container Grafted Chestnuts - see page 16 1 Year Old Grafted Chestnuts $35.50 2 Year Olds Grafted Chestnuts $39.50

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container All Grafted Fruit Trees Apple, Pear, Crabapple (See Below for Persimmon) Number of Trees Purchased 1-9 10 20-40 50-70 80-90 100+ Shipping 1 Year Old Apple Trees each 21.50 17.50 17.00 16.50 16.00 15.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 1 Year Old “Select” Apple Trees each 23.50 19.50 19.00 18.50 18.00 17.50 $38.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old Apple Trees each 25.50 21.50 21.00 20.50 20.00 19.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 2 Year Old “Select” Apple Trees each 27.50 23.50 23.00 22.50 22.00 21.50 $48.00 per 10 plants 3 Year Old Apple Trees each 33.50 29.50 29.00 28.50 28.00 27.50 Call Nursery for pricing 3 Year Old “Select” Apple Trees each 35.50 31.50 31.00 30.50 30.00 29.50 Call Nursery for pricing 3 Year Old Premium Apple Trees each 43.50 39.50 39.00 38.50 38.00 37.50 Call Nursery for pricing

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container Grafted Cider and Hard Cider Apples - see page 8 & 22 Cider apples, Hard Cider apples 1 Year $24.50 2 Year $29.50

Root Trapper #5 & #8 Container Grafted Persimmons 1 Year Old All Grafted Persimmon Morse Female, Meader, Yates, Ruby, Weber 35.50, Two Year $39.50

4-5 Year Old Priced by Caliper. Hybrid Oaks $100 per caliper inch in Knitted Containers, $60 per caliper inch for Bareroot. Call Nursery for availability.

Example: Do you need? Potted plants can be combined to fill a box of ten for volume pricing. (Example: 1 Whitney Crab, 3 Red Free, 3 Liberty, 3 Fertilizer, Tree Savers, Hybrid Oaks) = 10 plants to fill a box. All plants will be priced at the 10 count price. Vinyl Tree Wraps, Weed Mats, Tree Wraps Select Plants or Tree Tubes? Morse Nursery is offering the services of Hand picking the very best of our plants for you. We call these plants “ ” Select ASK US and are the best of the best! Many times these genetically “Busier” plants are showing more hybrid vigor than thousands of similar plants! We personally become your eyes at the nursery and hand select these super stars from every species or variety you want. Choose “Select” when only the best will do.

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Shipping – All plants are shipped in their original Jiffy pellet plug or Root trapper container bag with their original soil from the nursery. These plants will not exhibit the traditional transplant shock that bare root plants do. Boxes used for shipping containers are engineered to Morse Nursery’s Industry setting standards. A $20 minimum shipping charge is in effect.

Conditions of Sale - There are two ways plants arrive to you. Active or Inactive! 1. Active (Not Dormant) Leafed out or buds swollen and visually alive and growing. 2. Inactive (Dormant) No leaves visible or signs of growth activity. Active Plants: Morse Nursery makes no warranty regarding active plants or any other type of guarantee, expressed or implied on active living plants. There is no better proof that your plant is alive and healthy than receiving Active plants! All care must be taken by the customer to insure proper care of the plants once received and accepted. Morse Nursery assumes no liability for loss incurred in labor lost profits or any other related cost to our product. The active living plant received and accepted in good condition concludes all Morse Nursery liabilities. Once active plants are accepted they are accepted in as –is condition with no further negotiable remedies. Inactive Plants: Morse Nursery makes the following guarantee on inactive plants-Inactive plants when received will not have any leaves or swollen buds and will visually appear to be dead and not growing. These inactive plants are in a state of dormancy and there is no way for you to know if you are receiving a live healthy plant. Failure for these inactive plants to leaf out by June 30th will qualify you for a one time replacement plant. Cutoff date for filing claims is June 30th. Replacements will be sent in the fall or following spring. Shipping is not part of our guarantee and shipping must be paid prior to your replacement plants being sent to you. Many customers order plants in the fall and one way to get your replacement plants shipped free is when placing your fall order. We, in many cases, can squeeze in your replacements with your order at no additional charge. After June 30th, Morse Nursery makes no warranty regarding inactive plants or any other type of guarantee, expressed or implied on inactive plants. All care must be taken by the customer to insure proper care of the plants once received and accepted after June 30th. Morse Nursery assumes no liability for cost incurred in labor, lost profits or any other related cost to our product. The inactive plant received and accepted after June 30th concludes all Morse Nursery liabilities. Once inactive plants are accepted on June 30th they are accepted in as-is condition with no further negotiable remedies. We recognized the value of satisfied customers and that is our goal by providing quality plants grown in superior systems. Plant fatalities due to early frost, drought, high temperatures, insects, herbicide drift, animals, neglect and disease to mention a few ways plants are lost is not a reflection on your gardening skills or the fault of Morse Nursery! Good luck, most importantly have fun. We look forward to serving you now and in the future!

Receiving and Acceptance - All shipments must be opened, unpacked and inspected at time of delivery. If you have any problems with quality or number of plants received you should contact us immediately. If for any reason you received a damaged package you must report it to the carrier and refuse deliver. Call Morse Nursery and report the damage and we will reship your replacement order. By acceptance of the nursery stock, the buyer acknowledges that the limitations and disclaimers herein described are the conditions of the sale, and that they constitute the entire agreement between buyer and seller.

Refund/Cancellations - Morse Nursery offers Cheerful refunds when an item is out of stock. Your options would be to accept another item, keep a credit for future use, or receive a refund on the item out of stock. Cancellations must be made prior to shipping and credit card processing for a full refund. Any Cancellations after plants have been shipped will result in return shipping charges and a re-stocking fee of 15%. Orders cancelled after credit card has been processed will result in a 5% administration fee.

Pruning - Some trees are courtesy pruned to fit the boxes preventing “oversized” shipping fee’s.

Minimum Order - A nominal minimum order of $75 is in effect.

Privacy Policy - Sale: Morse Nursery will only use your personal information to process and ship your order. Sale Promotions: Morse Nursery will only use your personal information to inform you of special promotions. Catalog/Newsletter: Morse Nursery will only use your personal information to send from time to time updated catalogs or articles of interest. At no time will your personal information be sold to outside parties. Information collected: Name, address, phone, zip code, email, and credit card number is collected only to process your order.

Plant Restrictions - State and Federal Regulations sometimes do not permit certain plants into certain regions. Should this happen, we will let you know. We can’t ship to the following states, California, Florida, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Hawaii. Call us for Canada!

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15 www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only FLOWERING DOGWOOD + A HYBRID OAK COLLECTION + Flowering Dogwood is obviously an Can’t make up your mind about our ornamental, beautiful by anyone’s fantastic selections of Hybrid Oaks? standards and a great addition to any Consider our Collection Package. property. Over forty species of birds This package is simply a collection of are reported to eat the fruit from this all of our different Hybrid Oak trees. tree. Other great attributes are that Order the quantity of Hybrid Oaks it will grow next to Walnut trees and desired, and we will send you a va- can produce fruit in mostly shady riety of all of them. Diversity is the tree lines. Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years real advantage here. Your selection includes small acorns to large Soil Type: Loamy Fruit/Nut Size: Small, Red acorns, with various ripening times that will keep wildlife coming in to feed for several months. I was tempted to call this our “Forest Gump Collection”, which means that you never know what you’re GOLDEN DELICIOUS +++ going to get, but we can assure that you’ll be happy! In all honesty, this is a practical and fun way to order a selection of our best Hy- Golden Delicious is one of the easi- brid Oaks. The wildlife will thank you later. *Available in 1 or 2 year est apple trees to grow. It is one of potted plants only, no seedlings. only a few varieties that are self-fruit- ing, meaning that it does not need a pollinator to set fruit…a very nice feature. Golden Delicious is noted HYBRID PEAR ++ for their heavy crops and late ripen- Possibly the best soft mast fruit tree ing. Eat this apple right off the tree for deer that we grow. Our parent for a crisp, crunchy, sweet “Deli- Zones: 3-8 tree started producing in its 3rd year Specialization: Self Fruitful cious” treat! Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years and produced over 200 pounds of Fruit/Nut Size: Average fruit as a 5 year old tree! This Pear is Soil Type: Wide Range crossed with a variety of pears specif- Soil Moisture: Well Drained ically bred for attracting wildlife. Size and shapes vary considerably from tree to tree, with fruit size from 1 to Zones: 4-7 GRAFTED CHESTNUT +++ Specialization: Easy to grow 3 inches in size. Fruit doesn’t ripen all Soil Type: Wide Range Gillet, Szego, Marigoule, Qing, Maravel, and Morse Gigantica. at the same time, with fruit dropping Soil Moisture: Well Drained Call Nursery for availability before ordering. in October, November, and Decem- Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years Fruit/Nut Size: About 1 inch 1 year: $35.50 ber, making a great characteristic for Growth Rate: Fast 2 year: $39.50 wildlife. Fruit is tart and high in fiber, eaten by whitetails, turkeys, and makes good jam or wine. Known for their fast growth, often reaching 6 feet in two years, these fruit GRAFTED PERSIMMON +++ trees are easy to establish. Pear trees are a great alterative to apple Morse Female, Meader Yates, Ruby Weber. trees when wet soils or whitetail browse makes it impossible to 1 year: $35.50 establish apple trees. 2 year: $39.50 Call Nursery for availability before ordering. HYSLOP CRABAPPLE ++ HAZELNUT AMERICAN/BEAK MIX + We are excited to offer another large fruited crab we are calling the Hazelnuts can develop thick stands, Morse Hyslop Crab! This Hyslop was providing good shelter and cover for planted out with many others and animals. Pheasants, ruffed grouse, was noticeably more vigorous than whitetails, quail, rabbits and turkeys the usual run of the mill Hyslop. The prefer the nuts, which are extremely fruit ended up being larger, stayed in high in nutritional value, containing the tree longer and is a better keep- as much as 25% protein and 60% er than most Hyslop. Hyslop fruit is Zones: 3-8 fat to get them through the winter! Specialization: Large Fruit size not usually this size, and the tree is a These nuts are the same enjoyed Zones: 4-8 Soil Moisture: Well drained soils Specialization: Cover and food heavy producer. In addition, this is an Soil Type: Wide Range by humans over the holidays, only Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years edible crab for human consumption. Can Produce In: 3-5 Years smaller, and have more oils and taste Fruit/Nut Size: Small Growth Rate: Fast much better. This plant with two ex- Growth Rate: Fast tremely important wildlife qualities, food and cover, makes it one of my homerun plants for habitat!

www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 16 + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only INSTANT OAKS + KERR CRABAPPLE + Field grown in Root maker knitted #8 This is a very cold hardy strain of containers is Morse Nursery’s most crabapple. Crossed between Dolgo exciting offering for those of you x Haralson Red, Kerr has gained a who want “instant” oaks! These Oaks reputation as “one of the Crabapple have had their roots air pruned as trees to have” for Whitetail habitat. seedlings for one year then trapped What makes this crab desirable is its 3 1 in root trapper containers for one fruit size, averaging ⁄8- ⁄2 inch, and year and finally constricted for two the late ripening of the fruit. Com- years in knitted in ground contain- bine this with being easy to grow and Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Cold Hardy ers. These hybrid oaks are 4’-10’ in care for, and you can see why it’s so Soil Type: Wide Range height and range in caliper size from popular! Soil Moisture: Well Drained 1”-21/2”. Some of these trees had Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years Fruit size: 1/4 - 3/8 inches acorns last year so if you don’t want Growth Rate: Fast to wait a lifetime to see acorns from White Oaks these would be very high on my list of trees to plant! Shipping KIEFFER PEAR ++ of these larger trees will have to be Zones: 3-9 Specialization: Early Acorn Production Rev Kieffer is one of the latest ripen- on pallets or picked up at the nurs- Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years ing/dropping Pear along with Hybrid ery. Price is $100 per caliper inch. Fruit/Nut Size: Variable Soil Type: Wide Range Pear we grow. We commonly find We also have older hybrid oaks that Soil Mositure: Upland fruit still in the trees some years as we dig and ship bareroot for $60 per late as December. Additionally, it’s caliper inch. Call for shipping prices as these are done on a quote the best self pollinating pear ever! basis. Trees must be shipped in the fall or early spring. These trees can be in the middle of nowhere and will still have great fruit sets. Kieffer is also a very good tast- Zones: 3-9 JACK OAK + Soil Moisture: Well Drained ing Pear fresh off the tree if you like Soil Type: Wide Range This is a hybrid between Swamp crunchy, but when left on the coun- Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years White Oak and White Oak. I’ve dis- ter for 7-10 days develop a sweet Growth Rate: Fast Specialization: Self Fertile (can pollinate itself) covered that this hybrid does well in soft juicy dessert pear profile. Note: both wet and upland soils. Here on Grafted Selection recommended if our farm they’re planted in both clay purchasing for human consumption as the taste can’t be relied upland soils and clay/loam moist soil. upon from seedlings. Grafted Selections will also fruit 1-2 years Both locations are producing equal sooner than non-grafted trees (seedlings.) results in terms of growth rates and acorn production. Started producing Zones: 3-9 Specialization: Grows in both in 4/5 years from seedlings and are wet or dry soils heavy producer for young trees. Soil Moisture: Both Well Drained and Wet LAYEROKA EURO X CHINESE + Soil Type: Wide Range Hybrid Chestnut cross between Eu- Can Produce In: 4-8 Years Growth Rate: Fast ropean and Chinese (Layeroka). I’ve used this Chestnut to replace other strains of Chestnut trees that have “JOHNNY COME LATELY” + died for whatever reason, with very good success. Nuts are very sweet This apple was selected for its very and trees produce at very early ages late ripening and firm fruiting quali- some as early as three years with ties. Apples that don’t get mushy most between 4-5 years. As with all Zones: 3-9 once they hit the ground are a great Specialization: Blight Resistant/ Upright Chestnuts trees plant in well drained “Timber” growth potential asset, especially late into the season. soils and lots of sunlight. More up- Soil Moisture: Well drained soils Whitetails will dig into the snow to right growth than Chinese reaching Soil Type: Wide Range get these! I’ve noticed that some of Can Produce In: 3-5 Years heights of 50 ft or more has been Growth Rate: Fast these apples can be run over with a reported. lawnmower without much damage, Zones: 4-8 Specialization: Very Late Apple Drop which is proof enough that these Soil Type: Wide Range apples are among the best keepers Soil Moisture: Well Drained that I’ve ever found! Place them by Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years Fruit/Nut Size: 2-3 inches your late season deer stand. Growth Rate: Fast

17 www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only MEADER PERSIMMON +++ MORSE PERSIMMON + The Meader Persimmon is a cold har- This selection is from our most cold dy Persimmon that’s self-pollinating hardy strain of Persimmon, possibly and ripens early (October), essential a hybrid between Meader and Early in short growing seasons for cold Golden. This selection is a good northern zone success. I would high- choice for our more northern cus- ly recommend mixing your planting tomers that have had trouble estab- with Morse (Grafted Females) Per- lishing Persimmons in cold climates. simmon or Non-Grafted Morse Per- Persimmons are tricky because if you simmons when ordering. The two Zones: 4-9 find a tree that is cold hardy, usu- Zones: 4-9 Specialization: Male and Female Specialization: Cold Hardy varieties of grafted selections will all flowers on the same tree ally the fruit remains green without Soil Moisture: Well Drained have fruit when planted with Meader, Soil Moisture: Well drained soils to moist soil enough time to ripen. This selection Fruit/Nut Size: Golfball size as the Meaders will act as the pollina- Soil Type: Wide Range has been very cold hardy and the Can Produce Fruit in 4-6 years Can Produce In: 3-6 Years tors for the Morse persimmon. Plant- Growth Rate: Fast fruit ripens by November. Like all other Persimmons, the fruit has ing both varieties is like planting dif- Fruit Size: Golfball sized high sugar content and it is enjoyed by all types of wildlife, espe- ferent apple trees for better fruit sets and varied drop times. cially Whitetail andTurkeys. The fruit on Persimmon ripens late in the fall and doesn’t really start to fall from the tree until after a couple of hard frosts. Produces fruit in 4-6 years. Will grow in all MORSE APRICOT soil types, including sand or clay. Wood is from the ebony family This selection comes to us from one and is very valuable. Golf clubs and pool cues are made from this of our customers orchard just down very hard wood. These trees are male and female, so plant them in the street. This selection has heavy groups of insure fruit. consistent production, fruit is me- dium sized and very tasty. Apricots MORSE PERSIMMON GRAFTED FEMALE +++ are self pollinating and easy to grow. “This is a Grafted Female selec- tion.” Wood was taken from our Zones: 4-8 famous “Morse Persimmon” which Specialization: Self Pollinating has proven to be the best cold Soil Type: Well Drained hardy Persimmon we have ever dis- Growith Rate: 2-3’ per year covered. What does “Best” mean? Persimmons are southern trees that MORSE BIG CRAB + us northerners have been trying to Zones: 4-9 grow for years with mixed results. If Specialization: Grafted Female The Morse Big Crab is a selection we you’re lucky enough to get one of Soil Moisture: Well drained soils to wet soils Soil Type: Wide Range planted about 10 years ago as a trial these southern trees to grow and not to see if it could make the cut for our Can Produce In: 3-6 Years freeze out, then only later to your Growth Rate: Fast large fruited crabapple lineup. This disappointed, find that the fruit never Fruit Size: Golf ball sized tree was impressive in growth rate has enough time to ripen. Morse Persimmon has consistently over and productivity, producing large come both these disappointing attributes on our farm. Fruit starts fruit in abundance. This is exactly to ripen in October just ahead of your Goldrush Apples and will what we look for in determining ben- hang into November dropping a few each day. Must be planted eficial attributes that whitetails are Zones: 3-7 with Male Pollinators. Purchase Morse Non-Grafted Persimmon looking for. Apples start dropping Specialization: Produces Large Crops Soil Type: Sandy to Clay seedlings or Potted Persimmon, then strategically place the Graft- just in time for opening bow season Soil Moisture: Well Drained ed Female where they will give you the best hunting opportunities. here in Michigan. This is another Can Produce From In: 3-5 years Very Limited Quantities available. great selection for food plots! Growth Rate: Fast MORSE SWAMP WHITE OAK + MORSE HYBRID OAK + I’m including this Oak in my hybrid Officially, one of my favorite Hybrid selection this year, even though it ap- Oaks for fast acorn production! The pears to be a pure species, because Morse Hybrid Oak is a unique tree in I have had seedlings develop acorns the White Oak family. The trees are routinely within 5 years from this tree! planted together on the farm with The original tree is from the Univer- BurGambel Oaks, so the seedlings sity of Cornell’s arboretum, known will undoubtedly have some Bur- for its abundant crops of acorns and voted “Urban Tree of the Year”. Air Zones: 3-8 Gambel characteristics in them. Our root pruning the seedlings along Specialization: Great wet site Oak trees have grown to 12-15’ in 5 Zones: 3-8 Soil Type: Widely adaptable Specialization: Early Acorn Production with nitrogen deprivation during the Soil Moisture: Moist years from seedlings, and 3 of the Soil Type: Sandy to Clay seedling phase will help this Swamp Fruit/Nut Size: Large 10 trees produced acorns in their Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Growth Rate: Moderate fourth year. This year is their 5th year, Growth Rate: Medium to Fast White Oak come out of its juvenile Fall Color: Yellow and 6 of the 10 trees are producing, with one tree producing 560 stage early. Expect acorns within 5-9 acorns. This is a very promising Hybrid Oak for early acorn pro- years. You can plant this tree in wet or upland soils, making it one duction! of our most versatile selections. www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 18 + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only MULBERRY + NORTHERN BAY BERRY + Red mulberry is used mainly for its The Northern Bay Berry is a thicket- large, sweet fruits. The plumb fruit is forming shrub that will grow in poor prized by many animals, game and soils and makes a great whitetail song birds, including opossum, rac- bedding plant, as this shrub retains coon, fox squirrels, and gray squir- most all of it leaves the entire winter. rels. Deer browse the leaves and Shrubs that retain their leaves are an twigs. The fruits also are used in jel- important attribute for visual screens lies, jams, pies, and drinks. Interest- and windbreaks. Berries provide ingly, some wildlife specialist say that Zones: 3-9 food for song birds. Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Easy to grow Specialization: Grows in poor soil all the fruit these trees make take the Soil Moisture: Well drained soils to moist soil Soil Type: Any pressure off many game birds like Soil Type: Wide Range turkeys, that have eggs on the nests Can Produce In: 3-5 Years Growth Rate: Fast NORWAY SPRUCE + about the same time. 1 Fruit Size: ⁄2”+ Being one of the most browse- resistant conifers makes this easier to establish and more likely to suc- NANKING CHERRY ++ ceed. The attribute I like best is that the lower branches grow tight to the Shrubs that grow wider than they do ground, providing excellent visual tall are always great for screening screens and wide breaks for wildlife. and naturalizing areas. The Nanking This tree is a fast grower! Cherry produces scarlet red edible Zones: 3-7 (8) fruit enjoyed by game and song- Specialization: Browse tolerant, birds. Whitetails love making scrape Low branching habit Soil Type: Widely adaptable lines under these plants at the farm Soil Moisture: Well Drained and browse them extensively. I have Growth Rate: Med/Fast made both wine and jam from the Zones: 2-7 fruit. Excellent for food plot borders. Width: 15 Height: 6-10 NOVA SCOTIA CRABAPPLE ++ Specialization: Screening & Food Soil Moisture: Well Drained This crab was discovered by a friend Soil Type: Wide Range while visiting Nova Scotia. The tree was brought over from the original homesteaders almost 200 years ago NANNYBERRY + according to the farmer. We grew This is one of the easiest plants to out the seedlings from this tree and grow. It’s designed to grow in areas put them into our trials for promising with complete neglect, produces large fruited crabapples about 2005. Wow, very vigorous growth, prolific Zones: 2-7 berries even in partial shade, is Specialization: Large edible Fruit simulated by browse to grow more production and beautiful large fruit. Soil Moisture: Well drained soils branches and grows to form a great Ripening is mid September and into Soil Type: Wide Range October but some trees are as late Can Produce In: 3-5 Years cover plant for whitetail bedding ar- Growth Rate: Fast eas. I’m tempted to say even a cave- as Nov/Dec, great tree for our bow Fruit Size: 2”+ man can grow this one! Zones: 3-7 hunters. I graft some trees from the Specialization: Suckers late trees and these will be reliable for Nov/Dec fruit still in the tree Soil Moisture: Moist or Dry Can Produce Fruit In: 2 years for those of you looking for really late food sources. Fruit/Nut Size: Berries Growth Rate: Medium OOTI BEBBS OAK + This selection has a possible NINEBARK ++ Chinkapin cross as well! Acorns are Ninebark is a dense, spreading sweeter than most white oaks and shrub that makes great cover, visual large in size. Very productive as a screens and browse. I like this plant, young tree on our farm with about 50 as it will grow almost anywhere, even acorns the first year they produced. in poor soils and is stimulated when This tree “Now Older” has crops that browsed. Ninebark is a very fast bend the branches some years, while growing shrub, usually 3’ or more only 10 years old and is one of my Zones: 3-9 favorites for acorn size and produc- Specialization: Early acorn production per year and is easy to grow. This Soil Moisture: Well drained soils to moist soils is another great low-maintenance se- Zones: 2-8 tivity. Soil Type: Wide Range Height: 5-10 Seedlings: $12.50 Can Produce In: 4-8 Years lection for food plots and cover. Width: 6-10 1 year potted: $16.50 Growth Rate: Fast Specialization: Screening Fruit Size: Large acorns & Shade Tolerant 2 year potted: $20.50 Soil Moisture: Well Drained Soil Type: Any

19 www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only PIN CHERRY + SARGENT OAK #7 HYBRID + This is a shrub to small tree form More like Master Gunnery Sergeant plant selected for its very large (for Oak! This Oak, along with our Ser- a Pin Cherry) plump fruit. This plant geant #5, is about as good as they can form dense thickets of outstand- come! This hybrid reliably produces ing cover and food. Pin Cherry likes a acorns every year, with heavy acorn moist soil and will grow in a variety of crops on alternating years averag- types from sandy to clay. The fruit is ing between 800 and 1000 pounds. relished by birds and makes an great That’s right, production of up to a ½ jelly. Zones: 3-7 ton of acorns! This hybrid cross of Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Thicket forming Specialization: Very large acorn drop food producer two oaks in the White Oak family pro- Soil Type: Wide Range Soil Type: Sandy to Clay duces a sweet acorn consumed by all Soil Moisture: Prefers dry Soil Moisture: Moist wildlife, and preferred by whitetails. Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Growth Rate: Fast Growth Rate: Fast Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years The parent tree exhibits a very large Precocious Bearing: Yes acorn, nearly twice the size I normally see with this hybrid, and recently produced over 1000 pounds of acorns! This large acorn is one of the primary reasons for my selec- tion of this tree, and it is a fantastic selection for whitetails because REDOSIER DOGWOOD ++ the acorns are so large that birds can’t eat them. Your whitetails will have zero competition for this crop! If you’re serious about in- What a great border shrub! The ber- vesting in superior wildlife habitat, you need to include this in your ries attract Pheasants and Wild Tur- selection of must-have oaks! keys. Fast growth rate seems to be quite vigorous. Whitetails browse this plant heavily at the farm, which only stimulates them to grow more SAULS OAK HYBRID + shoots. Rabbits like to use our plants for cover. The stems turn a bright red A naturally occurring hybrid be- and contrast against the snow in the Zones: 2-7 tween Chestnut Oak and White Oak. Specialization: Cover Sweet acorns are influenced by the winter. Good bedding plant that also Soil Moisture: Prefers dry makes great visual screens. Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years White Oak gene contribution in this Fruit/Nut Size: Average cross. Seedlings show signs of pos- Precocious Bearing: Yes sible English Oak in the interesting hybrid, and will only make the acorns sweeter, larger, and more reliable! The parent tree has produced acorns Zones: 3-9 with very heavy crops of Specialization: Widely adaptable SARGENT OAK #5 HYBRID + every year, Soil Moisture: Prefers dry over 500 to 1000 pounds on alter- Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years I’m often asked the question, “What nating years. Very fast growing and Fruit/Nut Size: Large Growth Rate: Medium is your favorite Oak”? Well, this #5 early (4-8 years) acorn production is and #7 is about as good as they possible. I have personally seen bucks get up out of their beds come! This hybrid produces acorns in the middle of the day to feast on these tasty acorns before the every year, with heavy acorn crops competition can get to them. on alternating years producing be- tween 800 and 1000 pounds. You heard correctly, that’s up to a ½ ton of acorns! As you might expect from Zones: 3-8 Specialization: Late acorn drop SAWTOOTH (COLD HARDY STRAIN) + a hybrid cross of two members of the Soil Type: Wide Range white oak family, this tree produces a Soil Moisture: Prefers dry Original seed source from North sweet acorn that is widely consumed Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Korea meaning this Sawtooth is” Fruit/Nut Size: Average by wildlife of all kinds, especially Precocious Bearing: Yes not from the south” and is fully cold whitetails. The parent tree exhibits hardy to zone 4. Sawtooths from the a long duration acorn drop pattern, with many acorns hanging south have been planted here in on late into the season. This is the primary reason for my selection the North for years with little if any of this tree. Acorns ripening and dropping over time is a fantastic success but this is truly a cold hardy attribute when feeding and holding wildlife on your property late strain that will. Our trees survived in the season. 2013 Polar Vortex temperatures of Zones: 4-9 Can Produce Fruit In: 5-10 years 30 below zero. Sawtooths are known Fruit/Nut Size: Average for their abundant acorn production Specialization: Cold Hardy/ because they will produce acorns the Leaf Retention Soil Type: Wide Range Upland Dry full length of their branches and not just on the ends. 500 to 1,000 pounds of acorns are not uncom- mon. One of the best attributes of this cold hardy Sawtooth is not only heavy acorn production but that they retain their leaves most of the winter, Fabulous for tree stands!

www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 20 + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only SCHUETTES OAK HYBRID + STAGHORN SUMAC ++ This hybrid is a cross between Thicket forming best describes this Swamp White Oak and Bur Oak. My plant. Once planted it will colonize a son Tyler found this hybrid growing large area in a very short time. Great near an almost pure stand of Swamp for screening, cover and bedding. White Oaks. The most interesting Whitetail bucks love the soft sticky point about this find is that there bark as it holds the scent from their were many young acorn-bearing adrenal gland a long time. Over the trees all around the parent tree. years I have seen bucks consistently This tells me that the resulting seed- Zones: 3-8 stage in these sumac colonies on the Zones: 4-8 Specialization: Early acorn production Specialization: Colonizes lings all have a high degree of hybrid Soil Type: Wide Range edges of fields, important for those Soil Type: Any including poor & sterile vigor, which is extremely important Soil Moisture: Prefers Moist of you that want to lure bucks out Soil Moisture: All except wet when it comes to producing acorns Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years of the wood just prior to dark. This Growth Rate: Very Fast Fruit/Nut Size: Average at an early age. I haven’t found any Growth Rate: Fast plant will grow nicely in poor soils and great in good soils. Very swamp hybrid oaks to pick from that Precocious Bearing: Yes fast growing, can reach 5-6 feet their first year. I’m offering these are better than this one. If you have as rooted root cuttings, available late fall and early spring. $17.50 wet areas on your property, this is the oak you will want to plant. in bundles of 10. Above pricing is for 10 rooted roots. Additionally, this hybrid has performed in upland soils as well. An excellent choice for someone with a mix of high and low ground. STANLEY PLUM + SECKEL PEAR ++ Stanley Plums are what we eat, make jams, jelly and… oh yes, our famous My personal favorite Pear to eat! Morse wine from! This is a good pol- These Pears are in the desert catego- linator for our thicket plum. White- ry with intense Pear flavor but fruit is tails and Turkeys alike eat this fruit. smaller in size as you can see. These fit into your shirt pocket perfectly on your way to your favorite tree stand.

Good pollinator for other Pear trees Zones: 5-8 like our Hybrid Pear. Our trees ripen Specialization: Tasty around September/October. Zones: 4-8 Soil Type: Sandy to Clay Specialization: Intense Pear Flavor Soil Moisture: Well Drained Soil Moisture: Well drained soils Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years Soil Type: Wide Range Can Produce In: 3-5 Years Growth Rate: Fast SWEET CHERRY + Propagated by seed from a select SILKY DOGWOOD ++ tree on our farm that is everyone’s fa- This is one of my favorite Dogwoods vorite. Cherries are some of sweetest because of its thicket, shrub-forming best tasting you will eat. Cold hardy, growth habit, plus it produces fruit. pollinizer is required. Enjoy cherry This dogwood likes moist sites best, blossoms in the spring. but will grow in dry upland sites just as well. One of the best attributes of this dogwood is that it likes par- Zones: 3-8 Specialization: One of the hardiest of cherries tially shady areas and can grow in the Soil Type: Widely adaptable woods and still fruits.....Very cool! Zones: 4-8 Soil Moisture: Well Drained This is a great shrub for overwinter- Specialization: Produce’s fruit in the shade Can Produce Fruit In: 4-5 years Soil Type: Moist to Dry Fruit/Nut Size: Standard Cherry 1 ing bird populations. Fruit/Nut Size: ⁄2” Drupe Growth Rate: Fast

SPICEBUSH + TAMARACK + Spicebush is a thicket-forming shrub Need to thicken up the swamp? This that will grow and fruit in partial is an excellent choice for very wet shade. This plant has been used to conditions. The lower limbs of this build Whitetail bedding areas where conifer curve down, providing some there is a canopy in the woods. Bed- of the best cover Whitetails can find ding areas must be thick, and plants in the swamp. Terrific for those old that form a thicket in shade are hard swamp bedding bucks! to find, much less produce fruit. This plant makes my list of favorites in Zones: 3-8 Zones: 2-6 building whitetail habitat and cover. Specialization: Grows under tree canopy Specialization: Very wet soils Soil Type: Widely adaptable Soil Type: Widely Adaptable Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry Soil Moisture: Wet Can Produce Fruit In: 3-4 years Growth Rate: Fast

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3 TIMES A CHARM APPLE TREES +++ HONEYCRISP +++ Some of the very best-tasting apples are Honeycrisp apples. The Three Times a Charm (TTC) refers to cellular structure is different than any other apple. They are larger, “how” we package apple trees and and when bitten into, produce a noticeably juicier explosion of fla- “when” the fruit drops more than vor than any other apple. The fruit tends to hang on to the tree late “what” the trees are. When order- into winter because of their thick stems, and once on the ground ing Three Times a Charm (TTC) we they keep their firmness rather than turning into mush. This quality package your order with Early, Mid, is important, as I’ve observed whitetails digging through snow to and Late ripening varieties. (These get to firm apples rather than ones that have turned into apple- are not 3 in 1 trees) 3 in 1 trees are Zones: 3-7 Specialization: 3 Apple Trees 3 Fruit Drops sauce. Another great apple for deer and humans. for small back yards or in a pot on Soil Type: Sandy to Clay Soil Moisture: Well Drained your patio and will not hold up in the JONAFREE +++ Can Produce Fruit In: 2-3 years Disease resistant that ripens in early October. Here is a good ex- wild. TTC help pollinate each other, Fruit/Nut Size: Three different sizes Rootstock B-118 or M-111 ample of ripening times verses drop times being way different. provide an extended hunting sea- This cultivar hangs onto most of its fruit well into November and son, and are essential in attracting whitetails to your property for December and should be used as a late variety. several months. TTC, if the first and second apple crop didn’t get you a buck then the third just might be...... “the charm.” TTC are LIBERTY +++ Another disease resistant variety that is very productive. Red apple grafted on B-118 or M-111 rootstock making them semi-standard ripens in late September but this apple hangs onto its apples and “Not” dwarf’s. Growing apple trees exclusively for wildlife, we drops them over about a month long duration sometimes we see know a small tree (dwarf) won’t get the job done. Our large trees liberty apples in our trees with snow on them. I use this tree both 18’-25’ at maturity can be planted in a wide range of soils includ- as a mid ripening or late ripening variety. ing difficult soils of sand and clay, allowing habitat managers flex- ibility with strategic placement in less than ideal locations. Trees REDFREE +++ Early ripening and disease resistant cultivar. Red apple ripening in are divided between early, mid, and late drop times. Varieties used late August. are from the below listed trees. Additionally, all these varieties can be ordered separately. SNOWSWEET +++ Another very cold hardy apple bred by the University of Minne- ARKANSAS BLACK +++ sota. Ripens in early October. Nice crunchy juicy apple to eat out I have been asked by many of our southern customers to offer of hand. up grafted Arkansas Black Apples because of their low chill hours need to produce fruit. This apple ripens in October and drops SWEET SIXTEEN +++ Ripens in late September to early October. Sweet Sixteen is resis- through November here in Michigan. Excellent eating and storing tant to fire blight and is another very cold hardy variety from Min- apple and interestingly develop a sweeter taste the longer they lay nesota. Reportedly used by a champion pie baker with a history on the ground or on your shelf. Deer will dig these out of the snow of blue ribbon winning pies as her secret ingredient. Apple when long after they have fallen for their sweet treat! baked has a hint of vanilla flavor. Sorry bambi but a few of these CIDER/HARD CIDER +++ are going to come up missing off your trees in the fall…….:-) Winesap, Golden Russet, Spitzenburg, Grimes, Golden, Spy, Dabi- nett, Chestnut Crab, and Arkansas Black. Call Nursery for avail- WOLF RIVER APPLE TREE-YOU WANT HUGE +++ If you want huge apples, then here you go! Wolfriver produces ability before ordering. apples so gigantic that an entire pie can be made from one apple. 1 year: $24.50 The way I’ve thought is that if a whitetail will get up early from their 2 year: $29.50 bed when they hear acorns dropping from white oaks, then they ENTERPRISE +++ should have no problem at all hearing these whopper apples hit Yet another disease resistant strain that’s easy to grow. Red apples the ground! Wolfriver is an heirloom variety and is one of the easi- that ripen late October to early November. Apples from this tree est apples to grow and care for, as it is reportedly disease resistant. hang well and are commonly still in our trees in December. YELLOW DELICIOUS +++ GOLDRUSH +++ One of my favorite eating apple pick straight from the tree. Late Disease resistant strain with Yellow apples. Very productive, ripen- ripening variety in October fruit commonly hangs into November. ing in November with fruit hanging well into December. Pruning for good crouch angles are important with this tree to prevent limbs ZESTAR +++ Very cold hardy tree with early ripening red apples. Introduced by from breaking. the University of Minnesota this trees was breed for cold climates GRIMES GOLDEN +++ up to zone 3. I discovered this strain of Grimes when a customer and fellow or- chardist in his mid seventies while purchasing trees told me about his unusual Grimes. The fruit from this tree is very large firm and delicious. He has allowed me to take scion wood from his tree and offer them to others who love this old time variety. Ripens early October.

www.morsenursery.com 269-979-4252 www.facebook.com/morsenursery 22 + = non-grafted selection ++ = non-grafted, cuttings or grafted selection +++ = grafted selection only THICKET CRABAPPLE + WARE OAK HYBRID + USDA release. Seed quality is main- This is a great oak that won’t shade tained by MSU Plant resource center your fruit trees or food plots! If you’re to insure quality seedlings. This crab thinking about including oaks into is more shrub or thicket form than existing fruit stands or fields, the tree. Known for its excellent 8 foot columnar shape of this tree ensures bushy habit, which provides food acorn production without compro- and cover. Fruit averages a yield of mising sunlight to your other wildlife 27 lbs every year. The fruit persist sources. This hybrid is the result of a until spring and is an important late Zones: 3-8 cross with a fastigiated English Oak Zones: 3-8 Specialization: True Bush Form and Swamp White Oak. It is a vigor- Specialization: Early acorns season food source for wildlife. Apple Tree Soil Type: Wide Range Soil Moisture: Dry or Wet Soil Type: Widely adaptable ous upright-oval grower, reaching Can Produce Fruit In: 4-8 years Soil Moisture: Well Drained 60’ tall while only 25’ wide. Due to Fruit/Nut Size: Med-Large Fruit/Nut Size: Small its parentage, this oak is tolerant of Growth Rate: Vigorous Growth Rate: Fast a wide range of conditions, including both wet and dry soil. The seed was collected from the famous Riv- erbank Lodge (pictured above) where the tree grows right through THICKET PLUM + the roof. Acorn crops on this tree have been both consistent and The Thicket Plum is a multi-stemmed heavy. This is an excellent choice for space-limited applications, shrub that forms fantastic coloniz- where you desire acorn production without the broad, spreading ing thickets. It reminds me of sumac growth habit of traditional oaks. in how they spread. The plums are somewhat tart to us humans, but WASHINGTON HAWTHORNE + just sweet enough for the deer and game birds to really love them. Fruit The Washington Hawthorne is a fan- starts to ripen mid-summer. If you’re tastic border or boundary tree, sport- looking for a plant to provide cover, Zones: 4-8 ing menacing thorns that even the Specialization: Forms large colonies most diehard trespassers will think visual screens, and food then this is a Soil Type: Wide Range great choice. Thicket Plum will grow Soil Moisture: Prefers well Drained twice about going through, much less in any well drained soils. It seems to Can Produce Fruit In: 3-5 years a second time. It produces abundant Fruit/Nut Size: 1 inch thrive with neglect! fruit that turkeys and other game birds relish. Birds love to nest in these trees because the thorns help to keep Zones: 3-6 predators at bay while raising their Specialization: Naturalizing THICKET SERVICEBERRY + Soil Type: Widely adaptable family. Birds tend to be watch guards Soil Moisture: Wet to Moist The Thicket Serviceberry is a multi- for other animals, and I’ve kicked up Growth Rate: Very Fast stem shrub growing to an average many deer peacefully bedded around height of 8’ with a 6-8’ width that these trees using the birds as their personal bodyguards! produces edible berries in June. This plant is a great selection for visual blinds, travel corridors and cover, WHITE SPRUCE + and can stand up to whitetail brows- White spruce…because of its wide ing pressure. This plant is one of a geographic range and abundance, few that will produce their berries in Zones: 3-7 (8) it is highly significant source of food partial shade. What more can habitat Specialization: Colonies-Partial Shade and cover for many wildlife species, managers ask from a plant! Addition- Soil Type: Wide Range Soil Moisture: Moist to Dry for soil stability, watershed value, and ally, I propagate this from cuttings so Can Produce Fruit In: 2-3 years Fruit/Nut Size: Berries recreation. Whitetails don’t browse this plant can produce berries their Growth Rate: Medium this spruce very much, though they first year. These plants simply should Height: 6-10 be included in any habitat plan. welcome the shelter it provides dur- ing the winter months. Additionally, Zones: 3-8 it was historically important for food, Specialization: Cover and Windbreak Soil Type: Wide Range shelter, medicine, fuel, and other uses Growth Rate: Fast THICKET WILLOW ++ by American Indians. White spruce is Willows frequently hybridize produc- the provincial tree of Manitoba and ing some interesting growth rates and the state tree of South Dakota. shapes. This hybrid grows to form dense thickets and colonizes freely. Ideal for wet sites including standing water. Very fast growing attaining 3-4 feet the first year. This plant will grow with complete neglect. Zones: 2-8 Specialization: Colonizes Soil Type: Any Growth Rate: Very fast

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WHITNEY CRABAPPLE ++ *** Why WE Don’t Grow Plants By Size! *** The Whitney Crab Apple is a large We don’t use the standard horticultural pricing system of every fruiting crab, developing fruit be- 3” of growth increments. We are using techniques that help tween the size of an egg and a tennis our trees have the potential to produce fruit and nuts at an ball. Our tree had a few apples hang- earlier age! In fact our trees will probably be the smallest trees ing here in Michigan and it’s Decem- you ever purchase. Some of the techniques we use are to ber! This crab is widely considered to withhold nitrogen to very small amounts and air root pruning. be one of the best for Whitetails, and This holds back the plants’ growth of wood (making it not I like that it drops its fruit over a very very tall) but helps the tree divert its energy to bud and root long time. The Whitney Crab produc- Zones: 3-8 development. A typical one foot tree that has been held back es annually and has heavy crops. Specialization: Staggered Fruit Drop Times Soil Moisture: Well drained soils would normally be about a three foot tree if grown with lots Soil Type: Wide Range of nitrogen. In a way it looks like we are shooting ourselves in Can Produce In: 3-5 Years Growth Rate: Fast the foot with this technique but if you understand our system it’s actually best if your goal is to produce food sooner and not place the value on wood or how big the tree is, but rather in WILD PEAR + what it does. We have also discovered that the trees having been held back in their seedling phase actually seem to store This Pear was found growing along energy in their root system. This stored energy shows up after one of Michigan’s interstate high- ways. As a wild pear, this is prob- planting it in organic soil (your soil) where they start making up ably what growers of cultivars started for the lost time. We have planted 3-4 feet bare root trees next with. In other words, this was one of to our nitrogen deprived, air root pruned one foot seedlings the original parent pears. The fruit and discovered that in most cases the seedling catches the 3-4 on this tree is about 2” in size and feet bare root trees by the end of the summer and passes it the not very tasty as human consumption second year. This is very interesting stuff! Pricing is based on goes. This pear is high in fiber and Zones: 3-9 age, container size, and sometimes the rarity or uniqueness of Specialization: Low Maintenance fruit tree the Whitetails love eating them. Pear Can Produce Fruit In: 4-5 years the plant not size! trees are a great alterative to apples Fruit/Nut size: 2-3 inches when whitetail browse makes it im- Growth Rate: Vigorous possible to establish apple trees. I’ve noticed that this tree toler- ates moist soil much better than apple trees so this might be a Seedlings vs. Cloned Plants explained good choice for wetter sites. Seedlings: Plants grown from seed!

WOLF RIVER APPLE TREE-YOU WANT HUGE +++ Plants grown from seed (seedlings) will not be exactly like the parent plant. Some plants grown from seed come very You want huge, well here you go! close to being true to the parent but can still display genetic Wolf River produces apples so gi- variances including looking nothing like the parent. When we gantic that an apple pie can be made do seedling trials where we plant out thousands of seedlings from one apple. The way I have it and when most all the seedlings look the same we know that figured is that if a Whitetail will get this plant will come very close to true from the parent plant, up early from their beds when they others when grown show hundreds of variances and we know hear acorns dropping from white that this plant will not come out very close to the parent Oaks, well then they should have no problem hearing these whopper Zones: 3-8 and we eliminate the plant as a good candidate for seedling Specialization: Bake a pie from one apple propagation. A good example of this is Malus Serengeti sized apples hit the ground! Wolf Soil Type: Sandy to Clay River is also one of the easiest apple Soil Moisture: Well Drained (Roselow strain) this crabapple is offered by a major university trees to grow and care for, as it is re- Fruit Size: Huge as “true from seed and certified” to nurseries all over the portedly disease resistant. country. Even when using our trial selection process for, “which plants grow best from seed” it’s still not a clone and there will be some genetic differences. Morse Nursery seedlings are a Directions good low cost option when planting for wildlife because the genetic variances in the size and color of the fruit are not that Located in Battle Creek Michigan off Highway I-94 at Exit Number 95. Turn South off the exit ramp, go to the first stop light (which is important. Beckley Road). Turn Right onto Beckley Road (to the west). Go to the next street, make a left turn (south) on Betz Road. We are down Plants can be cloned to be exactly like the parent plant by a the road a quarter of a mile on the left. Do Not Stop at the old number of processes such as grafting and cuttings. We offer farm house where there is a barn. Keep going, you will see our sign many plants that have been colonial propagated by these located at the end of our driveway. methods. If you want plants exactly like the parent described in our literature, be sure to ask for plants that have been cloned 12300 BETZ ROAD using grafted or cutting propagation.

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ROOT TRAPPER CONTAINERIZED PLANTS MORSE HYBRID PEAR

MORSE DOUBLE RED CRAB

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