Varieties of Western Sandcherry ( Prunus besseyi)

Abstract

Professor Niels E. Hansen was the pioneer in Western Sandcherry selection at the South Dakota Experimental Station at Brookings, South Dakota, where he was head of the Department of Horticulture at South Dakota State College for 42 years. Professor I Hansen had been introduced to the Western sandcherry by the famous botanist, Professor Charles E. Bessey, whose name the sandcherry bears. Hansen was taught by Professor Bessey at Iowa State College, at Ames, where he obtained his degree in 1887.