WHAT IS IN THIS BOOK 



The basis of success with apples, peaches, or other 

 fruit, is right kinds. This means more than kinds 

 that are known to somewhere produce good-looking 

 fruit, with a fine flavor. For the very kinds that are 

 most successful elsewhere are likely to fail here in 

 some important particular. 



The chief troubles southern growers have with 

 wrong varieties are the falling of fruit, rotting on 

 trees before maturity, mushy texture, flat or bitter 

 flavor, the disease of bitter-rot, unthrifty trees, and 

 marked susceptibility to all insects and fungi. 



On the other hand, varieties which do thrive here 

 produce hard, plump, flawless fruit, that will over- 

 come the competition from the North or West. 

 When exactly the right selection has been made, the 

 Southland seems to put into its fruit an extra size, 

 flavor and color. 



Even local conditions vary greatly — the different 



soils and different elevations call for different vari- 

 eties, nearly every time. 500 feet of elevation is 

 equal to 70 miles of latitude. This means, for 

 instance, that a kind that will thrive no lower than 

 1,000 feet around Winchester, Va., will need at least 

 3,200 feet at Asheville, X. C. 



Get trees that are true to name. That sounds 

 simple, but of about half those offered for sale there 

 is no certainty as to what they are, sometimes noth- 

 ing but a guess. We have been building up a system 

 and an organization of men that will insure a dead 

 certainity in the names of our trees. Our Air. G. A. 

 Harrison at this writing is in our Western Maryland 

 orchards, with several competent men, cutting buds 

 from our fruiting orchards, — and our Mr. G. Hale 

 Harrison is seeing that these buds are used properly 

 and correct records kept. This is what every 

 orchardist wants. 



How to Grow and Market Fruit 



Our book "How to Grow and Market Fruit" Is a hundred-page guide-book, that tells, and shows with 

 pictures and instances, how to grow fruit. The exact influences of the different soils and elevations are 

 described, and you will also find plain directions for every process, — from preparing the soil, through buy- 

 ing, and planting, pruning, cultivating, fertilizing, spra^dng (all about the mixtures), picking, packing and 

 selling. Strongly bound, well-printed, and worth keeping. Price only 50 cents, and that amount rebated on 

 first S5.00 order. Send stamps for a copy at once. 



Some Hints on Buying 



Order at once. We shall not ship until the proper 

 time, unless otherwise desired. Please use our 

 order sheet. 



Cash must invariably be sent with order, 



unless it is otherwise agreed with firms having good 

 reference. 



No charges for packing at prices given in this 

 Catalogue. We pack as lightly as is consistent with 

 safe transportation. Express companies grant 

 special low rates on shipments of trees. 



We begin shipping trees in the fall, about 

 October i. In spring we can ship as early as Feb- 



ruary to the South. Have your trees shipped before 

 you need them, so that they may reach you in 

 good time. 



Guarantee. We exercise the greatest care to 

 have every tree and plant true to name. We are 

 ready, on proper proof, to replace, free of charge, 

 or repay the cost of anything sert by us that proves 

 untrue to label. We are noii to ci held liable for a 

 greater sum than that paid us for the trees in ques- 

 tion. 



Claims for deductions must be made within 

 five days after receipt of goods. 



HARRISON'S NURSERIES, Berlin, Md. 



In the fall, after the wood has ripened, large numbers of our trees are dug, sorted, tied in bundles and heeled-in to await orders. 

 These can be shipped any time, they never see a storehouse — they are the finest kind to plant, and very few will die. 



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