BERLIN, MARYLAND, U. S. A. 



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John L. Harrison 



Orlando Harrison, Jr. 



Scouting Prepares for Business 



ON my honor I will do my best" might well be adopted as a motto by 

 grown-ups as well as by the Boy Scouts. The training the boys receive 

 prepares them to do their best at all times. 

 The Scouts on this page have known the nursery as a playground since 

 infancy, and have absorbed a fund of knowledge concerning trees and plants. 

 Now they are coming into the actual work of the nursery, and will absorb the 

 details of budding, cultivating, digging, and packing. In a few years the business 

 responsibilities will be on their shoulders and this present-day training is fitting 

 them for their duties. 



These boys, with other Scouts in Berlin, have sold Thrift Stamps, worked 

 for the Red Cross, helped in the Liberty Loan campaigns, and found time to 

 make nearly all the peach carriers used in our orchards this year. We think 

 all these things are patriotic, for by their work they have released men for 

 heavier duties. 



We own wholly or in part 300,000 bearing fruit trees in com- 

 mercial orchards in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. 



Three thousand acres of fruit trees have been planted by us 

 in commercial orchards on the Del-mar- via peninsula during the 

 past few years. 



Our "Test Peach Orchard," maintained for the benefit of our 

 customers, contains more than one hundred different kinds, and is 

 the delight of all visitors who are seeking definite information as 

 to varieties. This orchard shows the character of commercial sorts, 

 which varieties are profitable, and what can be done with a peach 

 orchard when scientifically handled. 



