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We are prepared to carry out this idea in all our nursery work, for we own, wholly or in part, bearing 

 orchards containing over 225,000 trees. These orchards are operated lor profit, the same as though we were 

 fruit-growers only, enabling us to judge correctly of the possibilities of Iruit-growing, as well as giving us 

 propagating wood from the bearing trees. 



TT • If you possibly can, come to Berlin when you are ready to buy trees. We will show you what 

 Jl arris on they look like growing in the nursery blocks. You can pick out what you prefer, and have 

 Orchards those identical trees shipped to you at once or taken care of till you are ready. We also will 

 ^ show you the parents of the tiees you select, if you want to see them. This is the only business- 

 like way of buying young trees, and in every way is more satisfactory than buying by mail, although we 

 give every possible attention to mail orders. The few dollars you spend for car-fare will come back to you 

 many times over in results from application of methods j'cu observe while here. We will pay your hotel 

 bill during your visit here, and you will be under no obligation whatever to buy from us. 



Berlin, Maryland, is located on the "Eastern Shore," about 150 miles south of Philadelphia. If you 

 live south or west of Baltimore, the best way to get here is to come to that city, and take a steamer across 

 p +n '-^ Clayborne, where you can get a train for Berlin. If ycu live anywhere north of Baltimore, or 



can reach Philadelphia easily, you will find it best to take the Pennsylvania Railroad at Broad 



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Street Station, Philadelphia, and go down through the length of Delaware — a very pleasant ride. 

 Should you wish to take this route from Baltimore, instead of crossing the bay, you need only 



come north to Wilmington. See the map below. The ocean is only seven miles from here. 



During the past year we have reorganized our stafT thoroughly and made it possible to take care of 

 a great deal more business. With new men and new methods we hope to handle every order in a manner 

 Thi<? entirely satisfactory both to our customers and ourselves, getting the shipments off at the earliest 

 possible moment that the ripeness of stock, condition of the weather, etc., will permit, and making 

 Year the fewest possible mistakes. You will be treated right whether your order is for a few straw- 

 berry plants or for ten thousand apple trees. 



We have a large wholesale business, supplying other nurserymen with many trees. This year, our apple, 

 peach, pear and cherry trees are as fine as they can be 

 grown. We also direct particular attention to our Con- 

 cord and Moore's Early grape vines, to our 11,000,000 

 strawberry plants, a good many of which are Klondyke 

 and Gandy, to our stock of asparagus roots in five varie- 

 ties, to our hundreds of thousands of California Privet 

 plants, in nine grades, to our Norway Spruces, Colorado 

 and Koster's Blue Spruces and Pyramidal Arborvitse, and 

 to our Norway Maples. 



How to Grow and Market Fruit 



We have published a 150- page guide-book, which con- 

 tains what we have to say on the methods of growing 

 fruit, from the orchardist's point of view. You will find 

 it most thoroughly dependable, and, we believe, the most 

 up-to-date and complete handbook on the subject that 

 you can obtain. 



In "How to Grow and Market Fruit," we tell how to 

 prepare the land, how to select trees, how to plant, fer- 

 tilize, prune, spray, thin, pick, pack and market. To show 

 you how thoroughly we go into the subject, we tell how 

 to use dynamite for subsoiling and digging tree holes, 

 how to force a tree to bear every year by developing large 

 numbers of fruit buds, how to protect trees from mice, 

 how and when to spray, materials to use and descriptions 

 of fungi and insects. These notes are chosen at random. 

 Get the book — it will answer your questions and make 

 plain and simple all the puzzling orchard problems. 



There are nearly ninety pictures showing the difficult 

 points (for instance, the blossoms at just the right stage 

 to spray first, second and third times in spring). The 

 covers are flexible, strong and durable, the book is hand- 

 some, and you will keep it for years. We particularly 

 want you to have it if you buy our trees, because we want 

 your fruit-growing to be a success. We will send a copy 

 free with every order for $5 worth of stock, or will send a 

 copy for 50 cents and will rebate the 50 cents when you 

 send a $5 order for stock. By all means, get this book, 

 — it will be worth dollars to you. 



I am in receipt of your publication "How to Grow and 

 Market Fruit." From a glance through the work it appears 

 to me to be of most practical aosistance and I shall make it a 

 requirement of our garden pupils who are studying fruit- 

 gardening to read it carefully. — Prof. H. C. Irish, Missouri 

 Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Mo. 



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