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HARRISON'S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 



THE APPLE. 



GRADING APPLE TREES. 



^Ye grade our Apple Trees and tie in bundles of 10. 

 In making up your orders, if you will make them in 

 tens as far as possible it will be quite a help to us. 



Our Apples are on whole root. They are strong, 

 healthy, well rooted and first-class in every respect. 

 This photograph will give you an idea of the differ- 

 ent grades. We guarantee satisfaction and we be- 

 lieve we can please you. 



No fruit is more in demand, more universally liked 

 or more generally used than the Apple. Its uses are 

 many and of inestimable value. The earliest varieties 

 commence to ripen the latter part of June, and the 

 later varieties can be kept until the coming of the 

 early kinds the following year, making it a fruit of 

 perfection the entire year. 



The Apple is a world-renowned fruit of temperate 

 climates. Although not possessed of the richness, 

 melting and delicious qualities of the pear or peach, 

 yet its great adaptation to a great variety of soils, 

 together with the long time through which many vari- 

 eties may be kept in a fresh state, its various uses 

 and the profits accruing from it as a market fruit, it 

 must be regarded as holding the very first rank among 

 the fruits. There is no section of country where it 

 attains such perfection as it does in this, nor where 

 its cultivation can be made more profitable than in 

 Virginia, West Virginia and parts of Pennsylvania, 

 although there may be other States equally as well 

 adapted. 



6 to 7 ft., 5 to 6 ft., 4 to 5 ft., 3 to 4 ft. 



VALUE OF AN APPLE ORCHARD. 



No man, neither young nor old, should deny himself froni planting an apple orchard where cheap land 

 can be procured the world over, and what we mean by cheap land is land that will grow good apple trees, 

 whether it be $5.00 or $50.00 per acre. 



Many 'varieties of apples now come into bearing early. For instance, we were in the Nursery this 

 morning, and found apples on two-year blocks of Yellow Transparent, Wealthy, Missouri Pippin, Wag- 

 ener, Ben Davis and a number of other varieties. Then why should a man say if he were young he would 

 plant an apple orchard when apple trees come into bearing now almost as early as did peaches 25 years ago? 



There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land going to waste in the United States, especially in 

 the rough portions of the mountain section, where there is nothing being grown at all. Land usually 

 sloping to the east, with a good elevation, makes a good site for an apple orchard, although it is not so 

 much the location as it is the man who has charge of the orchard. We know of apple orchards on level 

 land that has been a paying investment for the grower. In "West Virginia some individual trees of the 

 York Imperial produced last year three barrels of fruit at seven years of age; others 20 barrels of apples 

 at 20 years of age. We know of another apple orchard of 35 acres planted to York Imperial and Ben Davis 

 that is 28 years old. We have been creditably informed there has been more than $80,000 worth of apples 

 sold from this orchard during the past 20 years, and in 1905 alone the fruit from this orchard sold for 

 more than $9,000. 



One Yellow Transparent Apple Tree eight years old last season netted $8.00 of the early apples in- 

 Western Maryland. 



In Delaware, where apples have not been grown onlv for the past few years, last season one small 

 fruit grower sold more than $15,000 worth of apples from varieties like Yellow Transparent, Fourth of 

 July, William's Early Red of the early kinds, and of later sorts like Wine Sap, Stayman's Wine Sap, 

 Nero, Rome Beauty and Stark. 



Apples do not give as quick returns as peaches and plums, but when they do come into bearing they 

 are not as expensive to care for, and can be handled more easily. You can grow the trees and sell the 

 entire fruit crop on the tree to hundreds of buyers, which you cannot often do with any other fruit. 



We would advise every young and old man as well to plant an apple orchard, and do not deceive your- 

 self by saying it will be no good. Let us plant one for another. 



