take do risk, then you want to start right to place your order with 

 us. We are growers and sellers of our own stock and you know 

 where to find us. We use every precaution in securing new vari 

 ties of buds and keeping them right and one of the firm looks per 

 sonally after this most important point. 



FALL PLANTING. 



In sections where there is no damage done by winter freeze- 

 ing late fall planting is the proper season, about November 15th 

 after the leaves have fallen and the irees are well matured, is a 

 most excellent time. If left for spring there is oftimes delay in 

 planting thus causing the loss of a good many trees. 



START RIGHT 



Peaches will succeed on a great variety of soils. "Worn out" 

 land and poor sandy soil that would require years of careful hand- 

 ling to produce a good crop of grain, can be readily utilized for 

 peach land, and is preferred to land that is stronger. Improve the 

 land after trees are set. 



Starting with such land, I would proceed by first plowing and 

 pulverizing, then dig holes large enough to accommodate the roots. 

 Use the soil to cover the roots and tread firmly with the foot. 

 Leave three or four inches of the hole to be filled with well rotted 

 manure or compost (if it contains wood ashes all the better,) then 

 cover with any soil. This will be enough fertilizer for the first 

 year. Good cultivation must follow or failure will result. 



For two or three years the land can be cultivated with other 

 crops adding fertilizer to make them. After the first year broad- 

 cast and cultivate in plenty of good wood ashes or muriate of 

 potash and phosphoric acid. 



HARRISON'S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 



If cropping between the trees would use fertilizer to make that 

 crop, but would watch the trees clcsely, and if I found them 

 hungry, would feed with phosphoric acid and potash in the shape 

 of muriate or kainit. 



Always bear in miad that over stimulated peach trees will be 

 sensitive to low temperature, fruit will be poor in color and more 

 subject to fungus diseases. Avoid cold, wet, low land. 



Whether planted in fall or spring, prune just about the time 

 the tiee starts growth. Pruna to a switch, leaving no laterals as 

 the tree will make all it needs 



Much might be said about the fruit and marketing, but this 

 would require a volume. The most important point is not to allow 

 a tree to overbear. Never. prop a limb to prevent breaking, but 

 thin the fruit. This will make better fruit and longer lived trees. 



Fruit should be graded and culls utilized without sending to 

 market, unless when very scarce. 



Relations between the Fruit Producers and the Canning Industry. 



( A sketch taken from a paper read by Mark O. Shirver. a Baltimore Canner.) 

 The peach desired by the canner is a frej stone of good medi- 

 um size and yellow, with a slight blush This can be packed 

 and made a desirable article. ,«— >^.„.^.„„„„„^>„„~^„~ 



It was a Chinese barber who said: * 

 '•B.ild heads are soon shaven.', Any- i 

 one might say that heads which are ; 

 bald inside are soon forgotten, so ♦ 

 one can be shaved by the high priced J 

 alesman after his departure because t 

 hollow. I 



i sitieaiiiuu ail 

 J their heads i 



Seed with crimson clover 

 the third year in 7th month, 

 turn under the next 5th month 

 and cultivate. Repeat this for 

 several years and note the re- 

 sult. If growth of wood and 

 foliage get too strong, stop fertilizing and cultivate only. 



On rich land that will produce 50 to 75 bushels of corn, I 

 would use no manure around the trees, but some potash, perhaps. 



'•From labor cometh rest." Nothing t 

 worth the having is to be had for t 

 nothing. It may seem work to keep J 

 | up a good orchard but it will bring t 



card. 



A peach that has a deep red 

 seed and deep blush is not so 

 desirable as the red colors the 

 eyrup, and buyers as a rule, do 

 not know the cause, and ob- 

 ject to the pinkish cast of the 

 syrup. A good canning peach 

 should be clear, free from coloring of any kind, as customers use 

 their eyes more ihan their taste in buying. This is why the Cali- 

 fornia peach commands and brings better prices than the Mary- 

 land peach It is not nearly go good a flavor as our peach, yet it 

 is large and has good color and takes the eye of both purchaser 

 and customer. The packer desires the fruit to be well ripened 

 (not soft) as they can then handle it in nice shape. The Craw 

 ford's, Reeves, Chair"s Favorite, Lemon Cling, White Heath Cling 

 and Smock are the desirable canners. Smcck, however, has a red 

 seed and often discolors the syrup, but in other respects is a good 



