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Why We Can Grow Hardy Stock— 

 Why Our Prices Are Lower 



Our long- experience in the growing- of a general 

 line of Nursery Stock in this and other sections of 

 the country and from close observation of general 

 growing conditions in the North, South and West, 

 leads us to make the frank and plain statement that 

 we believe we have the most ideal growing condi- 

 tions that are possible to find. We made our first 

 planting of Nursery Stock in Somerset County, Mary- 

 land, 24 years ago. At that time we were in busi- 

 ness in Western Pennsylvania, but growing condi- 

 tions were so bad there that we had to seek a new 

 location. The growing- season was short and very 

 unfavorable — one year in particular a heavy freeze 

 in September, while our stock was growing rank, 

 froze nearly all of it. After considering many sec- 

 tions of the country we found what we considered 

 ideal conditions here at Princess Anne, Maryland, 

 and made a trial planting. Our experience with this 

 planting of about 28,000 Apple with some Pear and 

 Plum was so gratifying that we at once moved our 

 place of business to Princess Anne, Maryland. We 

 found that we could grow a tree here as large in 

 one vear as we could possibly grow one in two or 

 three years in Pennsylvania. We also found that we 

 could produce this growth of 5 to 6 feet in one year 

 without the use of any fertilizers, which gave us a 

 much hardier tree, because it was not a forced 

 growth. This was due to our selection of soil, the 

 favorable geographical location, and the generally 

 favorable climatic conditions. 



Our soil is a sassafras loam with a yellow clay 

 subsoil. This type of soil is listed in the Biological 

 Survey of Maryland as the best in the State. It 

 produces one of the finest root systems on all classes 

 of Nursery Stock that we have ever seen. It pro- 

 duces a liber root system that cannot be obtained 

 where stock is grown on sandy soils or where stock 

 has been forced with heavy applications of nitrogen- 

 ous fertilizers. It is not productive of crown gall. 

 On our present new location, aided by our personal 

 and scientific selection of root stocks, we have been 

 digging practically 100% disease-free stock. 



Our location geographically is such that we always 

 have plenty of moisture from early spring till fall. 

 The rainfall is generally uniform and a comparative 

 low elevation gives us moisture from below in 

 periods of threatened drought and, yet we have per- 



fect drainage on all of our lands. This insures us a 

 strong and uniform growth on all stock. 



To go with these favorable conditions we have a 

 climate that is very hard to equal. We can neither 

 be considered to be located in the South nor in the 

 North. Our temperatures are comparatively uniform 

 with the season, not having any excessive hot periods 

 as in the far South and not having- any severe 

 weather or sudden freezes as are experienced in the 

 Northern districts. Our stock, making - an early 

 start in the spring, with even temperatures, plenty 

 of moisture, thorough and scientific cultivation 

 through the entire summer months, produces a maxi- 

 mum growth. It is brought to thorough maturity 

 in the fall, with gradually increasing cool weather 

 and frosts, forcing the sap back to the roots, a final 

 killing frost coming from the 1st to 10th of Novem- 

 ber. Our winter temperatures are such that we can 

 carry all stock through the winter in the open 

 trenches if we desire, giving them the advantage of 

 nature's moisture, without any danger of injury to 

 the smallest twigs from the winter freezes. We 

 have never yet experienced any damage from early 

 frosts in the fall or from winter freezing, during 

 24 years we have been growing Nursery Stock in 

 Somerset County. You should see the healthy 

 foliage on all of our stock, the remarkable growth 

 and the clean, natural coloring of the bark on all 

 fruit trees. 



These conditions, combined with a comparative 

 low wage scale and taxes, enables us to offer our 

 customers the thriftiest and most hardy stock avail- 

 able at prices that are comparatively low with those 

 of most established nurseries. We want you to con- 

 sider these advantages — compare them with condi- 

 tions you know to exist with other nurseries. Read 

 the many testimonials listed in this catalog, which 

 vouch for high-grade, hardy stock and unusual care 

 in packing. These people have bought our stock and 

 compared it as to quality, price, hardiness, and pro- 

 ductivenss. There is a reason why they get prac- 

 tically every tree to grow for them, and there's a 

 reason why they come to us year after year for 

 Nursery Stock — you should know it — you should give 

 it a trial — you should compare it in every way — IN 

 JUSTICE TO YOURSELF AS A CONSERVATIVE 

 BUYER AND IN THE WELFARE OF YOUR 

 FUTURE ORCHARD AND HOME SURROUNDINGS. 



Personal Supervision— Direct to Planter 

 No Substitution— No Agents 



We know that there is no subject that is more 

 important to any purchaser of Fruit Trees than re- 

 ceiving TRUE-TO-NAME stock for his orchard. NO 

 State official — no Inspector — no Orchardist can real- 

 ize this more than we do, for we know what it can 

 mean to the planter, and we wish to say that it is 

 our honest and sincere desire to deliver nothing- but 

 true-to-name stock to our customers, and we have 

 every reason to believe we are accomplishing our 

 object. 



Securing true-to-name buds or grafts is the first 

 step towards delivering true-to-name trees. We 

 realize this, and for that reason secure our buds and 

 grafts from bearing orchards of our customers and 

 various State Experimental Stations in most all 

 cases. These buds are mostly cut by Mr. Geo. W. 

 Kemp, Manager, and Homer S. Kemp, Assistant Man- 

 ager of our firm, and sent directly to the nursery, 

 properly labeled, for propagation. Their wide ex- 

 perience in the nursery business and careful study 

 of the varieties they grow in the nursery, enables 

 them to select to a type of fruit of the different 

 varieties, thereby breeding the varieties up as one 

 would a definite type of corn. They cut these buds 

 at definite periods, mostly when fruit is on the trees. 

 This alone is a marked advantage to our patrons 

 because these trees, propagated in this way, come 

 into fruiting much earlier and bear more prolific 

 than trees that are grown from buds cut from the 

 nursery row year after year, as is the practice of 

 many nurserymen. Our next step to make our stock 



true to name is the careful examination of the stock 

 while growing in the nursery. This examination, 

 which we conduct along the same general lines as 

 the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association, Inc., 

 do, combined with our many years experience in 

 growing fruit trees and our earnest desire to know 

 the varieties, throug-h our personal contact with 

 them, while growing in the nursery rows, enables us 

 to at once detect any possible mixture that might 

 have gotten in, and have it eliminated immediately. 

 We make at least two such examinations yearly. 

 We have also adopted the policy, that we will not 

 substitute on any customer without instructions to 

 do so from the customer, or properly labelling the 

 stock. Then, too. the personal supervision by mem- 

 bers of our firm during the filling and packing of 

 our orders enables us to avoid any mixtures in the 

 packing house. 



Another factor is that you are dealing direct with 

 the men that are interested in you. We employ no 

 agents, giving you the direct advantage of the 

 agent's commission, through the low prices \\;> make 

 on our stock. "We must and will treat you fair and 

 square. You cannot know the real advantages of 

 doing business this way until you have talked with 

 some members of our firm at the many exhibits we 

 hold — until you have placed an order with us — until 

 you have received the stock — until you have seen, 

 to your own satisfaction, the high quality of it, and 

 the way it grows for you. It is then you will realize 

 we are truly SINCERE in our dealings with every 

 customer. 



