Harrison's Service to Growers 



YOU probably know that our nurseries comprise about two 

 thousand acres in young fruit trees and strawberry 

 plants, and that we own, or have interests in, bearing 

 orchards of apples, peaches, pears, etc., which cover four thou- 

 sand acres and contain two hundred thousand trees. 



The orchards are scattered here and there over four states. 

 Our bearing trees are on mountain land and low land, on all 

 slopes, in all kinds of soil. Every kind of disease and every 

 sort of "bug" by which fruit trees are affected has to be fought, 

 and every known method of cultivation, fertilizing, protect- 

 ing, pruning, picking, packing and selling can be found in 

 use at one time or another in our orchards. 



Starting as many young trees and plants as we do, planting 

 and caring for as many orchard trees as we have, we get a 

 practical working knowledge of how to grow fruit. We work out 

 the thing from planting seeds to receiving the checks for the 

 fruit. We know just what our fruit costs. What is said here 

 is the most practical kind of hard-won knowledge. 



To decide the merits of a cake, eat a piece of it. Our cake 

 has been more than sampled. We have eaten a big piece of 

 it have even made a steady diet of it for thirty years. It is 

 delicious and wholesome. This proves that our materials are 

 right, our recipe good and our methods correct; for we have 

 succeeded in growing good trees, and in growing and selling choice 

 fruit succeeded beyond what most men think is possible. 

 Our young trees have come to be the standard for this country. 

 Our orchards pay big. 



Three or four years ago the thought came to us that our 

 experiences ought to be interesting and valuable to a large 

 number of growers and planters of fruit. So we started Harri- 

 son's Service Bureau, and invited our friends to ask questions. 

 Soon, however, so many questions were asked that nearly 

 all of our time was needed to answer them personally, and for 

 this reason we designed the first edition of "How To Grow 

 Fruit," published year before last. This book contained a digest 

 of what we had to say about the common processes of fruit- 

 growing and letters answering most of the queries received. 



Our success with "How To Grow Fruit," the ^story, has 

 been as marked as in propagating fruit trees and in growing 

 fruit. So we have decided to go a step further and give the 

 public a book along the same lines. This book we call "How 

 to Grow and Market Fruit," and it now is in your hands. 

 It will anticipate most of your questions, we think, and it may 

 tell you things you would like to know, but which you have 

 not asked about, for it outlines "how we do it" in most of the 

 processes and methods of fruit-culture. Should, however, 

 a situation arise which is not provided for in the book, our 

 stenographers are "on the job," and we urge you to write 

 fully for a personal reply. 



HARRISON'S NURSERIES 



BERLIN, MARYLAND 



