PROFITS IN FRUIT GROWING 



Little Orchards Make More Money Than Big Farms 



PLANT HARRISONS' SUPER-STRAIN SELECTED TREES 



About a half century ago Harrisons started 

 planting orchards so that they could carefully se- 

 lect the strongest, most vigorous, exceedingly 

 healthy, highest colored and the most productive 

 strains for propagation purposes, thereby insuring 

 our customers of fruit trees true to name and of 

 the best types available of each variety. 



The utmost care was exercised in selecting the 

 budding wood during the summer and early fall 



while the fruit was on the trees, which was in turn 

 budded in our fruit tree nurseries. By honestly 

 practicing this method of propagation, we un- 

 consciously developed in a practical manner "bud 

 selection." The laws of heredity are as fully oper- 

 ative in plant life as in the animal kingdom. Har- 

 risons were the first nurserymen to practice "bud 

 selection" which has revolutionized the industry of 

 growing high quality, true to name fruit trees. 



TRUE TO NAME—EARLIER TO BEAR 



As years passed along, our sales of fruit trees 

 greatly advanced, consequently from year to year 

 we have been planting additional commercial or- 

 chards, until at this time Harrisons' Nurseries, Inc., 

 have more than 1,750 acres in orchards in the vi- 

 cinity of Berlin, Maryland. We also found that 



by propagating direct from bearing trees of su- 

 perior merits, that we were able to produce fruit 

 trees, not only true to name and of the best types, 

 but trees which would come into bearing at the 

 earliest known age for the respective varieties — 

 and trees known to produce bumper crops. 



YIELD GREATER PROFITS 



If fruit trees are continuously propagated from 

 the nursery rows, which is the practice that a very 

 large percentage of the nurserymen in America 

 pursue, on account of the facts that it is much 

 cheaper and that they do not have their own 

 orchards from which to propagate, consequently 

 fruit trees begin to degenerate — and if the original 

 was a poor type, then the nurseryman without 

 knowing it, would continue to reproduce poor, 

 undesirable, small type, low yielding fruit trees, 



which in many instances would take many years 

 to come into bearing and never produce bumper 

 crops. Incidentally, in case there was a mixture 

 in the nursery rows, the nurseryman would con- 

 tinue to propagate, thereby selling trees untrue to 

 name. 



The only known scientific method is "bud selec- 

 tion" which has not only developed better and 

 new fruits, but has prevented and eliminated the 

 propagating of degenerate types. 



HIGHEST QUALITY FRUIT TREES AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES 



It is very expensive to propagate fruit trees by 

 "bud selection" method, but it has been on this 

 basis that Harrisons have won an enviable reputa- 

 tion for the highest quality fruit trees, being true 

 to name which can be found in America, but by 

 our large volume of production we have been able 

 to hold down the selling prices to a reasonable and 

 attractive basis for the commercial orchardists as 

 well as the home owner — by necessity, however, 

 our prices naturally must be higher than certain 

 of those nurserymen who practice the worn out 

 and obsolete method. 



No matter where you buy trees, or what price 

 you pay, there is a distinct financial loss unless 

 they make good in the orchard. It's mighty unfortu- 

 nate that many people forget this fact and inno- 

 cently buy trees because they think they are saving 

 a few cents. We can prove that our trees are 

 larger than most other trees; tests of more than 

 fifty-two years show they are as hearty and adapt- 

 able as trees grown in any part of the country, 

 generally hardier; the wood is well ripened and it 

 goes without saying, that they are first class qual- 

 ity, being clean and free from diseases. 



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