HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, MARYLAND 



This ihuws the condition of a great many pretentious houses —no trees, no shrubs, just a bare lawn 



SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 



To suggest briefl}' what you may do with trees and plants about your home, we give a table of some 

 of the different plantings that may be made: 



Borders 



Close to Foundations 



Over Porches, etc. 



Ornamental Hedges 



Fences 



Roadsides 



Screens 



Windbreaks 



Snowbreaks 



Shade Groups 



Ornamental Groups 



Yard and Lawn Specimens 



You will not need a landscape architect to lay out a beautiful planting when your heart is in your 

 home and your eyes once see the possibilities. You are thinking now about some simple planting that 

 made a certain place stand out among its neighbors — just imagine how your place will look when surrounded 

 by the deep green of the maples, the dark pines, silver spruces, golden arborvitses. groups of flowering 

 shrubs and draperies of thick, leafy vines. A planting need not be elaborate and expensive to give beauty 

 and pleasure. 



The ornamental trees we supply are grown here at Berhn, the same as our fruit trees, and will Hve and 

 grow am-^^here, north or south, under any fair chances. They receive the best of care in cultivation and 

 pruning: they are fine specimens; their roots are extra good: they are graded hberally, which means that 

 you get good, big trees for your money. You can beautify your home grounds with Harrison ornamentals 

 without great expense, and the sooner you begin the sooner you will enjoy the pleasure of owning a beautiful 

 home. 



SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES, 



EVERGREENS, SHRUBS, ETC. 



If you are not ready to plant immediately upon the arrival of the trees, unpack them, mix some loamy 

 soil into thin mud in a hole in the ground or in a tub, dip the roots in this till they have a good, thick coat, 

 then trench them in with the tops toward the south. To do this, dig a ditch about 2 feet deep, the north 

 side perpendicular and the south side sloping, lay the trees in, roots to the north. Cover roots and most of 

 the trunks with a foot or so of dirt. When the time comes to plant, cut off, on a slant, the face of which is 

 down, all broken roots. Give the trees another coat of thin mud, or set the bunch of trees in this mud and 

 take them out one by one right at the holes. 



In preparing the ground for the trees, dig at least 2 feet deep and 3 feet w^de. Thoroughly mix the soil 

 you take out, and then you can put about a foot of it back. A recent development is to use a small amount 

 of djTiamite in preparing the holes. Run a bar down 30 to 40 inches, and explode a third, a half or a whole 

 stick at the bottom of the hole. The charge should not throw out the dirt, but heave it. We recommend 

 that 3^ou use dynamite whenever possible, as it prepares the soil much better than can be done in any other 

 way, and makes the trees grow faster. 



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