Dedicated to Your Better Acquaintance with 

 J. G. Harrison & Sons and Their Nurseries 



J. G. Harrison and Sons are in the specialized nursery business on a larger scale on their own land than 

 any other American growers. Handed down from father to sons, the business has expanded in size and in 

 in scope, from a half acre of Strawberries and a hundred Peach trees at the beginning, to nurseries which 

 ox J J produce millions of trees, of a dozen different fruits, and ornamentals enough to make 

 oianaarg beautiful all the homes in four states. The nurseries now contain about 2,000 acres of the 

 Nurseries ^^^^ farm land which can be bought in this favored section. There are looo acres more in 



timber, which we are clearing, and field after field of new land is added from time to time. 



A constant expansion is taking place; we buy good farms wherever we can, and drop those which are 

 valuable for general farming, but which, for one reason or another, are not so well suited to nursery 

 work. Incidentally, this gives settlers coming here some fine chances to get good farms. We are also 

 planting new orchards of our own right along. 



To give an idea of how big the nurseries are, take the six million Harrison Peach trees which will be 

 planted in orchards over the country in 1910 and 191 1. These would plant one big orchard of sixty thou- 

 sand acres, at the regulation distance of twenty feet apart, 100 trees to the acre. When a man can take 

 you over his farm and say "here's a million Apple trees" or "here's two hundred thousand Maple trees" 

 or "here's ten million Strawberry plants", or "there are seven million Privet plants in one block," — as 

 we can take visitors and show them, — he will have as big a nursery business as we have. It is a big busi- 

 ness — ranking with any in the country, and is to be compared only with the largest industries. 



We have packing and storing sheds which cover acres of ground, also a complete chemical mixing 

 plant, -for young trees require even more spraying and protecting than do those in bearing. In short, we 

 have a most complete and very large equipment for doing the right thing at the right time, and for doing 

 it better on the large scale than would be possible if we handled less trees. To each of the various kinds 

 Wp ^npriflliyp '^^ trees and plants which we have mentioned as specialties — and to Strawberries and 

 we opeciaiize pj-j^g^ more than anything else — we want to direct particular attention. The stock 

 For Results ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ growing here is the best we have ever had, — and that is saying enough to 

 — ^— — — any one who knows Harrison's stuff. If you don't know our product you should get 

 acquainted with it this year. 



Berlin is located seven miles from the Atlantic Ocean on the peninsula of Maryland which lies between 

 Chesapeake bay and the ocean. We have two railroads and one express company. We are only a few 

 hours from all the large cities of the east, and can ship quickly, by freight, express or mail, to any point. 

 The soil here is a sandy loam, very rich and exceedingly productive. Farming and fruit raising are done 

 here under conditions which are far above the average, and some great successes have been attained in 

 all parts of the eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware. New Jersey is known as a truck state, but it is 

 not under nearly such intensive cultivation as most of our section. The salt air seems to give a tone to 

 everything which grows that cannot be had elsewhere. It gives trees and plants a healthy, hardy and vig- 

 orous constitution such as they do not have when they grow at inland points. When to this is added the 

 training which we give them, — the start in perfect roots, the perfect forms of top and the absolute freedom 

 from disease and bad habits, — the result is exceedingly hard even to equal. This training is another rea- 

 son why Harrison's trees and plants are the ones to buy. 



Part of a Harrison Tree, Plant and Fruit Exhibit, which won a prize at the Maryland State Horticultural Society Meeting, in the 

 First Regiment Armory, Baltimore, Maryland. We grow trees to sell and also we are very large and very successful orchardists. 



