HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD., U. S. A, 



One Year Apple Tree -two years 

 transplanted from the Nursery 

 Row to Orchard. 



planted trees to "look smoother" 

 the first year, or to "rub 'em off 

 cheaper." If you rub 'em or cut 

 'em, there will be no scars at the 

 end of the next growing season. 



I assume you plant trees to live 

 and grow ; to bear fruit to be sold 

 out in the big world, where good 

 fruit is wanted, where the supply 

 is never equal to the demand, and 

 where the best always sells for 

 high prices. 



Write the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, Washington, D. C., and ask 

 for Farmers' Bulletin No. 482. 

 All this is free for the asking ; the 

 advice is from well-known men of 

 authority ; men who are depend- 

 able ; go by what they say ; profit 

 by the benefit of their knowledge, 

 then thank God for the privilege 

 of living in such a country. 



It is not where trees grow that 

 make them hardy or fit for plant- 

 ing ; variety decides the matter of 

 hardiness, and on the nuseryman 

 depends the reliability, condition 

 and fitness of trees. The best 

 trees are only grown by careful, 

 intelligent, thorough nurserymen, 

 who know their business and do 

 their work the best they know. If 

 you get the right variety grown 

 by a nurseryman who is thorough in his work and dependable, 

 you have the tree best suited to your needs. 



All of which means, the nurseryman must have the backbone 

 and earnestness to attend to his business when planting the 

 seedlings and cultivating them ; when cutting the buds, when in- 

 serting them, and when tying them ; when digging 

 ! ' the trees; when caring for the trees between the 



nursery and the packing-house ; when grading the 

 trees to find defects they may have ; when packing 

 and shipping. If all of these things are done in the 

 best way, and you have the right variety, you have 

 the best trees, no matter where grown. 



Cross Fertilization 



It is advisable to plant two sorts in the same 

 orchard, say four rows of one variety, then four 

 rows of another. It is a known fact that the West- 

 ern Slope fruit, which has taken the blue ribbon 

 during the last three years, was produced in or- 

 chards fertilized with the pollen of other varieties. 

 From Bulletin No. 181, issued by the Horticul- 

 tural Division of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. : 

 "Much of the unsatisfactory fruiting of orchards 

 all over the country is due to self-sterility. A tree 

 is self-sterile if it cannot set fruit unless planted 

 near other varieties." 



"The main cause of self-sterility is the inability 

 of the pollen of a variety to fertilize the pistils of 

 that variety." 



"An indication of self-sterility is the continued 

 dropping of young fruit from isolated trees or solid 

 blocks of one variety." 

 "Cross-pollination probably gives better results 

 than self-pollination with nearly all varieties." 

 "It is advisable and practicable to plant all 

 varieties of orchard fruits, be they self- 

 sterile or self-fertile." 



