HARRISON'S NURSERIES. BERLIN, MD. 



RAY PEACH 



A SPECIAL NEW VARIETY 



THAT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED. 



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RAY PEACH TREE- 



Salisbury. Md., November 26, 1903. 

 Messrs. J. G. Harrison & Sons, 



Berlin. Md. 

 Dear Sirs:— Replying to your favor of the 18th 

 insl., I will say that the peach trees were planted in 

 the sprinj; of 18-8, you having shipped me the trees on 

 January 11th. 1898. 



The first fruit was gathered in the summer of 



1901, and consisted of 307 baskets. These, however, 

 owing to my ignorance in the peach business were 

 picked too green and not put on the market as they 

 should have been ; and only netted about $100.00. Had 

 I known enough to leave them on the trees a week 

 longer, they would no doubt have doubled or thribled 

 the above amount. But I happened on the market 

 where they were being sold and there learned an im- 

 portant lesson. And the sub.sequent crops I think 

 were handled about as well as could have been done 

 under the same conditions. 



My second crop was gathered in the summer of 



1902. and consisted of 25 baskets sold locally, for $7.13, 

 and 574 Georgia carriers, and netted clear of all ship- 



ping expenses and crates $575.62, or a total for the year 

 of $682.75. 



The third crop which I harvested the past summer 

 consisted of 470 Georgia carriers, and netted clear of 

 shipping expenses and crates $792.90. There was some 

 specked fruit sold in our local market ; I do not have 

 any record of the exact quantity, but the amount was 

 considerable over $20.00, making this year's crop net 

 $812.90. The total number of trees in the orchard is 

 264. 



Now you will note that these trees have not been 

 planted six years until next spring ; and I have already 

 received net clear of all expenses, except the growing 

 and handling, which was not very much, $1,600.00, or 

 $1.00 each for every tree in the orchard for every year 

 of its life. 



If there is another peach orchard on the Delaware 

 and Maryland. Peninsula that has such a record, I 

 would like to know of it. 



Yours faithfully. 



W. F. Allen. 



