PRINCESS ANNE, MARYLAND. 



INTRODUCTION 



To Our Many Patrons and Friends: 



For over 40 years we have been engaged in the growing of 

 Nursery stock and for a period of 10 years growed Trees exclusively 

 for large orchard interests in West Virginia and adjoining states, so 

 extensive was the demand for our trees by these large orchard com- 

 panies that our trees were bought under contract by them one and 

 two years in advance. They recognized our ability to grow the very 

 best trees that could be produced, hence the large business they gave 

 to us. 



For the past few years we have been enlarging our produc- 

 tion so at this time we feel that we can supply every demand made 

 upon us, and we come to you with quality of stock and prices for same 

 that should merit your patronage. Our trees are grown on what is 

 known as red chocolate soil, which produces the finest trees in the 

 world, while we have a climate and growing season here that promotes 

 a strong, hardy, vigorous growth that ripens up the wood to the very 

 tip end of the young branches and gives to our trees a superior well 

 ripened out wood growth so necessary for to enable the young tree to 

 withstand severe winter weather after being transplanted in the fall 

 of the year. 



Our spring shipping season begins February 15th and con- 

 tinues until April the 20th, and often May the first, our shipping sea- 

 son in the fall begins about October the 20th, and continues up to De- 

 cember the 20th. Large planters should get their trees in the fall and 

 if not ready to plant when trees are received to carefully heal or trench 

 them in slopeing the trees towards the south and covering the tops 



