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Part of the Tonoloway Orchard, Hancock, Md. Trees eight years old; 50,000 Apple trees 
and 5,000 Peach trees, all from Harrison’s Nurseries. 
Harrison’s Trees are Budded from 
Bearing Orchards 
It was many years ago that we started our famous test orchard of 
Peach trees. In it now there are over a hundred varieties of Peaches, six 
or more trees of each sort, each tree tagged; and on this tag, together with 
what is transferred each year to our record books, we have the facts of 
what each and every tree has done since it was planted. From the best 
trees we cut budding wood and propagate trees for orchards of our own, 
and from these orchards we cut buds for use on our millions of Peach tree 
seedlings. 
With Apples the proposition is a little different, because it takes longer 
for the trees to come into bearing and make records or show what charac- 
teristics they do possess. But we watch all the trees growing in our own 
and other orchards, and get budding wood from the best bearing trees we 
can find. This policy is followed just as far as possible in propagating 
every variety of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, and other fruit that 
we list in this booklet. Through enforcing this policy and selling only 
trees that we grow, we are enabled to know just exactly what our trees 
are at all times, and to back up the claims we make for their superiority. 
Some propagators use the wood pruned from nursery stock to get their 
supply of buds. Others cut buds from bearing orchards, but make no 
selection of the trees which bear the most fruit. It has been pretty thor- 
oughly demonstrated that when young trees are propagated by buds or 
graits, they have the same bearing characteristics as the tree from which 
the budding or grafting wood was cut. Ii this tree is a regular bearer of 
heavy crops of fine fruit, the young trees in all probability will be the same. 
If this tree is a shy bearer, or produces inferior fruit, the young trees have 
very little chance of ever becoming profitable orchard units. You can 
notice it in your own orchard and neighborhood—one Baldwin or York 
Imperial tree will bear twice as many apples as another standing alongside 
it, and better Apples, too. This condition applies as well to Peaches and 
Pears and other fruits. 
When, therefore, we say that our trees are budded from bearing orchards, 
it means that they have come directly from trees in a successful orchard, 
and that they should possess superior bearing habits throughout their 
life. Under no circumstances will we ship you on a regular order any 
trees that have not been grown by ourselves. When you order Harrison’s 
trees, henceforth, know that you are getting stock that has been propagated 
in our own nurseries, from buds cut from selected bearing trees, on well- 
grown seedlings, and cared for while growing in the best manner in our 
nurseries. 
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