NURSER YMEN— ORCHARDISTS 



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Hints on Growing Peaches 



WE started growing peach- 

 es as a commercial propo- 

 sition solely to make our 

 nursery business more efficient. 

 "NVe found it almost impossible to 

 grow trees in a commercial way 

 in the nursery without having 

 an orchard of standard varieties 

 from which to cut buds. There- 

 fore, we planted four different 

 test-orchards, containing 100 va- 

 rieties, G trees of each variety. 

 In a few years these trees began 

 to bear fruit, and then it became 

 a question of disposing of the 

 crop. We soon found that peach- 

 growing on the Peninsula was 

 profitable, and as a result we in- 

 creased our orchard plantings 

 year by year, until at the pres- 

 ent time we have something over 

 1000 acres in fruit trees, about 

 equally divided between peaches 

 and apples. 



Different grades of Peach Trees bundled 



ready to ship in sizes, viz: 6 to 7 ft., 



5 to 6 ft., 4 to 5 ft., 3 to 4 ft., 



2 to 3 ft. 



We had a full crop of Peaches in 1922 — Red Bird Cling, 

 Greensboro, Carman, Slappey, Hiley, Belle of Georgia, Ray, 

 Hale, Elberta, Brackett — over 300 cars gave us an opportunity 

 to learn the value of varieties — and a chance to cut our buds 

 from the fruiting trees when the fruit was ripe, and how you 

 can tell the selected trees to cut buds from. Our buds are 

 cut by careful men who have spent their life in the nurseries 

 and orchards and know the value of keeping our varieties 

 true to name to the best of our ability. Every variety 

 growing and being propagated and sent out to our customers is 

 absolutely true to name. We most respectfully invite you 

 to visit our orchards and nurseries. 



HOW TO FIGURE miCES 



Each Rate— In buying fruit trees, less than 10 trees go at "Each" 



rate. 

 10 Kate — 10 or more go at the 10 rate price. 

 100 Rate — 30 or more trees go at the 100 rate. 

 1000 T?ate— 300 (or more) of a kind (as 300 apple, 300 pear, 300 



peach, etc.) go at the 1000 rate. 

 Note — The same applies to all other trees and plants. 



PEACH TREE PRICES 



Each 10 



1 to 2 ft $^3 25 53 00 



2 to 3 ft SO 2 ^;0 



3 to 4 ft 85 8 0:> 



4 to 5 ft 40 8 50 



5 to 6 ft.... 50 4 00 



Parcel Post size (2 to 3 ft.), S5c each prepaid 



100 



1000 



515 00 



$120 00 



20 00 



150 00 



25 00 



200 00 



80 00 



2.';o 00 



8d 00 



300 00 



PEACH TREES (Juno Budded) 



Each 10 100 1000 



6 to 12 in $0 15 $1 20 $11 00 $100 00 



12 to 18 in 20 1 r.O 13 00 110 00 



18 to 24 in 25 2 00 15 00 120 00 



