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J. G. Harrison 



J. G. HARRISON, head of three 

 generations in nursery work, is 72 

 years old, and is vitally interested in 

 the work of these nurseries. He was a 

 pioneer in the growing of straw- 

 berries in 1867, and had the first com- 

 mercial plum orchard in Delaware 

 in 1870. He was the founder of the 

 present immense Harrisons' Nur- 

 series, much of the success of which 

 is due to the solid foundation he laid. 



ORLANDO HARRISON, 46 years 

 of age, son of J. G. Harrison, has spent 

 his whole life in propagating fruit 

 trees and planting commercial or- 

 chards. He is personally familiar 

 with the details of tree- and fruit- 

 growing from the seed to the bearing 

 orchard. Has organized twenty differ- 

 ent commercial orchard companies 

 and planted over 300,000 fruit trees 

 in orchards in Maryland, Delaware, 

 Virginia and West Virginia and has 

 made practical successes of them. 



Orlando Harrison 



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HERE at Berlin, Maryland, is the largest continuous acreage of land in 

 America devoted to growing fruit trees. It is all Harrisons' Nurseries. 

 Millions of trees are produced here every year ; in fact, more fruit 

 trees than are produced by any other firm in existence. 



Thousands of people who are in a position to know, claim that the trees 

 grown here by our methods are better than trees produced anywhere else in 

 the country. There are good reasons for this. We want to tell you what 

 they are. But first, we want you to know the men who grow them, the men 

 who are behind them, the men who have studied and worked to develop this 

 immense nursery, and who put the high quality into these trees. Their 

 pictures are printed on this page. Write to them, or come to see them and 

 get acquainted with them yourself, so you may know the earnestness and 

 the knowledge and the care and pains which they put into the production 

 of every tree which you might get from this nursery, and plant in your 

 orchard with great hopes of success. 



George A. Harrison 



GEORGE A. HARRISON, 43 



years of age, and his brother, Orlando 

 Harrison, direct in person all the 

 work in the nurseries at Berhn. 

 George A. Harrison sees personally 

 to the cutting of buds from bearing 

 orchards. He has in his immediate 

 care the cultivation of over 2,500 

 acres of land, and probably has had 

 charge of the growing and digging of 

 more fruit trees, especially peach and 

 apple, than any other man in America. 



G. HALE HARRISON, 19 years 

 of age, son of Orlando Harrison, dis- 

 coverer of the "Ice-Box" method of 

 keeping buds in good condition from 

 the time they are cut until used, has 

 charge of over one hundred men and 

 boys during the budding season. They 

 budded over three and one-half mil- 

 lion trees in about ninety days in 

 1913. Is now taking a course in horti- 

 culture and agriculture at Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, New York. 



G. Hale Harrison 



