

We make a specialty of a few things, and give the trees we grow everything they need. Much can be 

 accompUshed by this concentration of attention which would be impossible if we grew many of all kinds 

 of trees, or if we operated on a less extensive scale. To illustrate, we concluded that Norway Maples were 

 p , needed badly in this country. No young trees of any promise could be found in the 



il/Xpert United States, seemingly none were propagated here, so our Mr. Orlando Harrison 



"Know How" went to Europe, where they are grown right, and bought back with him over a hundred 

 — ^— — — thousand of the straightest, finest trees he could find, together with a personal knowl- 

 edge of how to produce them from the very start. 



Now we can beat anything else in the United States with our Maples, and will be able to keep in the 

 lead — because we specialize on them. It is the same with California Privet, Koster's Blue Spruce, 

 Apple, Peach and Pear trees, and Strawberries, as well as the few other things described at length in this 

 book. We are more thoroughly informed on our leaders than would be possible if we did not center our 

 effort on producing these few things well, and this knowledge of ours helps to make the trees we sell the very 

 best you can buy. 



Every tree and plant we offer for sale is grown in our own land, under our own direction and super- 

 vision. We watch the whole life of everything from planting to shipping — we do not guess at even the 

 smallest point. This is why, in our twenty-five years of business, we have built up our nation-wide repu- 

 tation for reliable stock. It certainly is a big argument for using our trees to know almost to a certainty 

 that they will turn out to be what is wanted. We grow our trees just as good as they can be grown, and 

 then make a price on them as low as can be placed on them if we are to have a living profit. 



The men in charge of Harrison's Nurseries are experts, each in some particular line. They are not 

 only producing trees and operating orchards at a profit, but they are closely allied with the fruit organ- 

 izations of the whole country, know what is going on, and keep pace with the modern science of tree and 

 plant growing in all its many phases. Our methods are constantly undergoing improvement; we are deter- 

 mined that no innovation which means better trees shall be practiced elsewhere before it is here. 



And we are leaders in the fruit and shade tree business from the start to the finish of it. Not only do 

 we supply good trees and lots of them, but we have many bearing orchards and whole farms of Peaches, 

 Apples, Pears and Strawberries. Harrison Trees are now bearing in a large portion of the orchards of the East. 

 And in those which are right now so successful commercially, Harrison trees are especially numerous. 

 Our "Bearinp- ^^^ '^'^^ here, at Berlin, orchards in which are more than 3,000 Apple trees, over 



Ji-Z — p 10,000 Peaches, large numbers of Pear trees, and upwards of 100 acres of bearing Straw- 



Orchards berries. We also own an interest in the following orchard enterprises: 



— ^— — — The Tonoloway Orchard Co., Hancock, Md., with 50,000 Apple trees. 



The Elberta Fruit Farm, Hancock, Md., with 25,000 Peach and Apple trees. 



The Knobley Mountain Orchard Co., Keyser, W. Va., with 40,000 Peach and Apple trees. 



The Alkire Orchard Co., Keyser, W. Va., with 25,000 Peach and Apple trees. 



The Grimes Golden Orchard Co., Martinsburg, W. Va., with 6,500 Apple trees. 



The North Mountain Orchard Co., Martinsburg, W. Va., with 12,000 Peach and Apple trees. 



Federal Hall Orchard Co., 9,000 Apple trees. 



Western Maryland Co., 25,000 Peach, Apple and Cherry trees. 



In addition to the above, we have interests in other small orchards. 



We picked five to six baskets of Peaches to the tree this year, and sold seventeen carloads from our 

 Berlin orchards alone. These orchards had also supplied the market with seven carloads of Pears and 



Here's a million one-year-old apple trees in one of our fields. In growing this many, we learn to do away with all guess, 

 and to KNOW what is right treatment for them. These trees are splendid in growth, health and form, have been trimmed perfectly. 



