To Your Interest — Read 



WE ARE devoting this space in our catalog to questions and problems that are 

 confronting most every buyer of nursery stock today, and we wish to talk it 

 over with them from a practical standpoint and leave them to be the judge 

 as to where to purchase their nursery stock. 



HARDINESS OF STOCK 



This we think is one of the prime f actors that enters the mind of most of the 

 planters wherever they are located, for w e think everyone wishes to plant the BEST 

 and are eager to find where they can sec ure the BEST at a REASONABLE PRICE. 

 We say that our stock is as hardy as it is possible for any one to produce it, no 

 matter where they are located and we feel that the following facts given proper 

 consideration will substantiate our claims. 



Climatic conditions have more to do with the production of hardy nursery 

 stock than one would think, in fact there are three__factors that alone enter into 

 making the tree hardy — Climatic Conditions, Methods of Production, and Soil — and 

 we shall discuss them in their order. We consider our climate here ideal for pro- 

 ducing a maximum growth on nursery stock and yet there is no risk from injury 

 due to early freezing in the fall. While th e actual season for stock to leaf out in the 

 spring is but about three weeks earlier than in York State, the temperature up to 

 that time is such that early planted stock is making a root growth — that is should 

 you transplant a tree in our climate in January or February at a time when the 

 ground is not frozen and remove this same tree from the soil April 1st, you would 

 find, while the top of the tree was perfectly dormant, the roots had made new root- 

 lets of from one-half inch to two inches i n length so that when the tree does burst 

 forth into foliage it has this advantage over the northern grown stock where the 

 ground remains frozen till so late. This advantage is then followed by unusual 

 favorable conditions through the summe r — natural moisture, not any excessive hot 

 weather as is experienced in the far south — going into the autumn and fall season — 

 our most beautiful season, August, September, October — with plenty of moisture, 

 long, balmy nights, till our first frosts co me the last of October. Light frosts then 

 follow at intervals from a few days to a week, gradually driving the sap to the 

 roots, letting the stock thoroughly mature naturally, never having the tenderest 

 twigs frozen. Our stock is carried over th e winter in the open — no storage, nature's 

 moisture — with no chance of winter injury, the temperature seldom going below 

 20 degrees F. or 12 degrees below freezing. The advantages summed up are: Five 

 to six weeks longer growing season, meaning that we do not have to use nitrogen- 

 ous fertilizers to force a rapid growth which is often caught in northern climate 

 with sudden frosts and freezes while the stock is yet growing tenderly, resulting in 

 twig injury and oftentimes killing the stock outright — an ideal fall season to thor- 

 oughly mature our stock so it will stand the coldest climates — ideal winters for 

 carrying over stock for spring with no chance of body injury from excessive freez- 

 ing and ice, at the same time avoiding the disastrous effects of all winter storage. 

 Tens of thousands of our trees have proved their hardiness, having been planted 

 on the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the orchard section — one orchard con- 

 cern having planted over 400,000 of them there in the last 18 years. A customer 

 in New Hampshire says: "In the past we have bought mostly western New York 

 grown trees, and will say that you have t hose growers trimmed both as to quality 

 and price." An Ohio customer, along the lake region, says: 'Trees from another 

 nursery died down to near the ground. I pruned your trees to 30 inches, and every 

 one stood the winter." They will do equally as well for you. 



Next in importance is method of production, knowing when to and how long 

 to cultivate in the fall of the year — when to and how to properly plant and when to 

 dig stock. We do not use nitrogenous fertilizers to produce a big growth that is 

 bound to be tender. We wish every one co uld visit our nursery and compare the rug- 

 gedness of our stock with other stock grown in the northern and far southern cli- 

 mates. They could more readily see its superiority in the beautiful crimson hue of 

 the bark on fruit trees — thoroughly matured. Our apple, plum, pear, and peach 



