HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, MARYLAND 



APPLES 



Spraying time for Codlin-moth 

 Too early — full blown Right time — petals fallen 



Harrison Apple trees are larger and smoother than most other Apple trees. This is well known 



among nurser^Tnen, and among owners of large orchards, who buy thousands of trees every year. Too 



often it is not known bj^ planters who have not yet become thoroughly acquainted in the nursery trade. 



We have been growing and selHng trees 

 for twenty-five years. Our trees have gone 

 into almost every township east of the Mis- 

 sissippi River where fruit is grown. It is hard 

 to find a neighborhood where there is not an 

 orchard planted with our trees. We make it 

 a point to keep in touch with our old custo- 

 mers. If you want us to, we will try to give 

 you the names and addresses of people in 

 your section who have planted our trees. A 

 bearing orchard is the best evidence possible 

 of the quality of the trees with which it was 

 planted. We know that a great many of the 

 most successful orchards in the East today 

 are composed of our trees. Harrison trees 

 are "making good" wherever growing, and 

 they wiU make good for you. 



Harrison Apple trees are budded from bear- 

 ing orchards. They will bear sooner, and 

 bear heavier, than average trees, aU their 

 hves. There is absolutely no doubt about 

 their trueness to name. From the time these 

 trees first are put into the ground as seeds or 

 seedlings, they are kept growing by constant 

 cultivation. They are sprayed and pruned 

 right. 



All the trees we sell are grown here at 



Berlin. Few sections are as well adapted to tree-growing as here. It is our soil, our chmate and methods 



of growing trees that make them so good. After taking them from the ground with our tree-digger, we 



grade them to standard sizes, leaving out all crooked and inferior trees. 



Success has attended this season, as in many others, our efforts to produce trees as fine as, or finer 



than, any that can be grown in America or elsewhere, and we want you personally to inspect them before 



deciding with whom to place your order. 



The best way to select what you want is to come to Berlin. The trip may cost you as much as ten or 



twenty dollars, but it will be money weU spent. Every acre of orchard you plant ought to give you ten 



twenty-dollar bills each Christmas, when it is ten years old and afterward. If what we tell you enables 



you to raise the income from one hundred to two hundred, we have given you a lot more than your expenses 



amount to. We will show you how to change your general farm into a specialty fruit-farm, and how to 



make ten thousand a year or better from your own land. 

 No Overproduction. A few so-caUed fruit 



experts have made a great noise about the 



number of Apple orchards planted during 



the past few years, and have predicted an 



enormous overproduction of fruit, with re- 

 duction in prices and profits to the grower. 



Some of the leading farm papers have made 



a careful investigation of the situation, and 



the unanimous opinion is that the writers 



are frightened at their own shadows. 



Notwithstanding the large plantings that 



have been made, government statistics show 



that there are fifty million bearing Apple 



trees less in the United States today than 



there were fifteen years ago, a fact which 



shows that not every tree that is planted is 



given the necessary care and attention to 



bring it to maturity and make it a profitable 



producer of fruit. 



Dr. J. H. Funk, of Berks County, Penn- 

 sylvania, in writing for "The Practical 



Farmer," says: "Put good fruit at reasonable 



prices and the consumption of fruit would be 



tripled, and, instead of hearing the cry of 



overproduction, there would be a demand 



far beyond what can be produced in the 



near future." 



W. S. Moore, of Mason County, West 



Virginia, says in "The Ohio Farmer:" This map shows the sections mentioned in the table on page 16 



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