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PEACHES 



The only Peach trees worth planting are one-year-olds. Do not let any one tell you that bigger trees are 

 better, for you cannot afford to waste your time and ground with two- or three-year trees. When you plant 

 the one-year trees, they may have branches or they may be whips. In any case, be sure to cut off the stem 

 about 15 inches from the ground; if possible, cut to a bud that grows away from the sun, and with a slant 

 the cut surface of which is toward the north. All the little branches that are to remain must be shortened to 

 stubs, and those not to remain are to be cut off close. 



The distance apart to plant Peach trees is a matter on which opinions differ. J. H. Hale plants his trees 

 13 X 13 feet apart, but gives his trees the very highest cultivation, best feeding, most careful pruning, and 

 thins the fruit severely. Where the orchardist is not prepared to give his trees all this care, he should plant 

 a greater distance apart — 18 feet is about right. Variety, elevation and soil have a good bit to do with it 

 also. Low elevations and southerly locations, plus rich, loose loam, will make big trees, while high land, with 

 thinner soil, especially where the winters are very severe, will allow only half the tree growth. Small-grow- 

 ing trees do not need so much space as big ones, therefore should be planted closer. 



Peach orcharding is one of the most exact sciences. To the careful and studious grower. Peaches offer 

 great profits. To the careless man who thinks he can grow Peaches without much cultivation or spraying, 

 etc., they offer only loss of money and disappointment. Certain sections, particularly high land near towns 

 that offer a market, seem naturally adapted to Peach- growing, and here you can plant ten acres of trees and 

 make ten thousand dollars a year from them, with the right kind of orcharding and selling methods. Your 

 trees will come into bearing the third year, and ought to last for at least ten years. If you get three good 

 crops in these ten years, you will make several hundred dollars an acre, and there is no reason why you 

 should not get six or eight crops, anyhow. Some Peach orchards are valuable at twenty years of age. 



As fillers between apple-s and pears. Peaches are good because they begin bearing so soon, and do not 

 spread rapidly. They are ready to come out by the time the apple trees or pear trees need the space. When 

 you use Peach fillers, be very careful to give cultivation and feeding that will take care of both the fillers 

 and the permanent trees. If the Peach and the other 

 trees were planted separately, correct treatment for each 

 would be different to a certain extent. Because of this, 

 many authorities are not advising using Peach trees as 

 fillers; but when the two kinds of trees are combined in 

 one orchard, cultivation and other treatment that will suit 

 them both can easily be given. It is a money-making com- 

 bination — that is why we advise it. 



If there is one class of fruit that has recerved special 

 attention at Harrison's, if is Peach trees. We have a 

 test orchard containing over a hundred different varieties, 

 six trees of each. Complete records of growth; yields, 

 dates of blossoming, ripening, and all other data, are kept. 

 We can tell exactly what each kind has done lor as many 

 years as it has been known. From this test orchard, which 

 is the best and most complete of its kind in the United 

 States, we cut buds and get our mother stock to a large 

 extent. Budding wood is cut from bearing trees, at least 

 the first time. We can point out orchards over the East 

 which contain hundreds of thousands of trees all bred 

 from this test orchard, or from trees directly descended 

 from it. Absolute trueness to name, and great superiority 

 in strain of all varieties result from this careful selection. 



No matter where you buy Peach trees, you can not 

 get better ones than you will get here. We wish every 

 customer or interested person would come to the nursery 

 and see our clean, healthy beautiful blocks — sometimes 

 over three million in one field. If you can come, we will 

 show you all the trees we have, and you can have your 

 pick, either to be shipped at once, or dug and heeled-in 

 here till time to ship. The first thirteen varieties described 

 are the cream of all known kinds of the East. You will 

 make no mistake if you plant them. For the higher ele- 

 vations in the Alleghanies, plant the later-ripening sorts 

 to the exclusion of those that ripen earlier, and for those 

 sections that are nearly sea -level, plant only the earliest- 

 ripening kinds. 



We wish every man who is planting a Peach orchard of 

 any size would come to Berlin and see our orchards. We 

 could explain many things that ought to be taken into 

 consideration by every man who plants. The influence of 

 the facts brought out in such a visit may very materially 

 affect the success of the very best trees we can supply. 

 It's these fine points that count. A half- week spent dig- 

 ging up facts usually is worth four weeks of plugging 

 ahead without study. 



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How we dig trees with a plow, and Ray peaches as 

 they grow 



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