Harrison's Trees Just Receivea 



Care of Trees from the Nursery to the Orchard Planter 



Harrison's Team Digging Fruit Trees 



WE use the very best methods in digging our trees to retain all the roots and fibers. The above 

 shows our team of sixteen Western mules just as they work vnth one of the latest improved 

 tree diggers. Visit our Nurseries and see the extra care in preparing trees for shipment. 

 Figure 2 

 "We plant Harrison's Trees because they are always good, 

 clean stock, well rooted and bear fruit true to name. The 

 box of trees was well packed so they would keep for weeks in 

 good condition, yet this shipment came through on good time. 

 When we receive trees in early fall, we ai once unpack them 

 and if not ready to set ,open the bundles, trench them in the 

 ground, an angle of about forty-five degrees, cover root and 

 top, if they are to be left over winter, at least two feet deep, 

 and before heavy frosts set in, throw corn stalks, straw or 

 any other i-ubbage over them to prevent heavy freezing, then 

 when the weather is open during the winter and early spring 

 I have the trees on my own ground, and can plant any day, 

 and I have never failed to a get better growth than my neigh- 

 bors who wait late in the spring to place their orders. I find 

 when I have the trees on my own grounds in the fall or early 

 spring I have many advantages, if however, the trees are 

 received frozen, I bury them, the box and contents without 

 opening until ready to plant." 



Figure 3 

 "We are now ready to plant Harrison's trees, before doing so 

 I prune all bruised roots and cut back the the extreme long ones 

 rounding the roots in proper shape, so they will be admitted in 

 the hole, eighteen inches square, for a first-grade apple tree such 

 as is shown ; the hole is dug ready to receive tree. 



Before planting this tree it stood in a mud-puddle, only a 

 small hole dug in the ground, a muck made and tree dipped, 

 leaving the mud to roots. A Httle tobacco dust 

 is valuable to put in the mud for apples, which 

 can be easily done and will help keep aphis from 

 the tree as most soils have more or less aphis. 



Figure 4 

 The tree is now planted about one inch 

 deeper on the level surface than it stood in the Nursery, using only the soil to fill 

 the hole and each shovel of soil tramped firm so the washing rains will have no effect 

 on same. I bank the soil around the tree at least twelve inches high around the trunk, 

 as above, for winter protection, and in early spring this is taken away. But few 

 people are careful enough in planting and too many trees are not planted deep enough. 



Thousands of trees are injured by dropping them in the sun and wind ahead of 

 the planter, this is an important part to leave off. The roots should not be exposed 

 for one moment when it comes from the mud-puddle or the running brook, and if trees After Planting 

 are in good condition when received and I do my part I do not lose one per cent, and others can 

 do the same. 



The apple tree being planted in the fall, I leave the branches on until spring then the side branches 

 are cut back within six inches of the main stem, and the center left about twelve inches above others 

 to form a double head." 





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Before Planting 



