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Dtar Sir.— BERLIN, MARYLAND, March 20, 1911 



Can't you give me an idea of what fruit you vould like to plant this spring? Are you interested in 

 Strawberries, Apples, Peaches, Pears or Cherries especially, or do you want a variety of fruits for your own. 

 use at home? I would like to know what conditions you are up agamst. Perhaps I can suggest a number of 

 things you haven't thought about. Every day or so 1 see how some other fellow has solved the problem of 

 what to plant. There is bound to be some one who it, situated much the same as you are. 



the i9i i book i sent you ia unusually valuable vvel! ,,'crth yov.'- -:?-ef';l ■^^^dy Take the descrintions 

 of Strawberries for illustration. These are original and accurate. When you consider that reliable informa- 

 tion about season of ripening, about blossoms — whether staminate or pistillate, perfect or imperfect — about 

 size, color and growth — is absolutely necessary before planting can be safely done, you will see why such 

 a book as this is worth keeping. It is actually a guide or handbook, and means as much to a fruit grower 

 as a time-table does to a traveler. 



I have tried to tell plainly of some of the genuine, practical advantages of growing fruit, and of planting 

 in April, 1911. We growers of the Eastern states can get just as high pnces as are received for Pacific-coast 

 fruit — from $3 to $10 per barrel, and from $! .25 to $3.50 per bushel box. I am now running an exhibit of 

 fruit grown east of the Alleghanies, at the Reading Terminal market, in Philadelphia. Chiefly Apples and 

 Pears are shown at this time of year. All that is exhibited there is sold from time to time, new shipments 

 replacing the vacancies in the displays. 



The purpose of the show, of that talk in the book, and in this letter, is to prove that you, like many 

 others, are letting good money-malting chances he dormant, right at home. You work hard raising stock and 

 grain and vegetables, and perhaps get but a slim living from it. You eat store foods, and meat, and you get 

 sick lots of times when you wouldn't need to, if you ate more fruit. I'm not "butting in" on your private 

 affairs. 1 only want you to see clearly that if you plant apples and peaches and pears and berries, enough to 

 get all you want to eat the year round, and enough to sell a lot of, you will live better and make more 

 money than you do now, with less work. 



Also plant hedges instead of putting up fences, plant evergreen windbreaks instead of painting buildings 

 so often, plant maples and spruces, etc., for screens and shade — they all help in comfort and economy, for you, 

 and in increased value of your property. I have yet to find a man who did plant, and who would take ten 

 times what it cost to do it, live years after. Start this year to build up your place. Make it what it can be 

 made. In a few years you will find yourself independent, in a beautiful home, and enjoying life and happiness 

 as you should. That's what I want you to have. There's more in this to me than just selling trees. Let me 

 hear from you about it right away today. 



Very truly yours 



ORLANDO HARRISON, for J. G. Harrison & Sons 



Ten Valuable Farms for Sale 



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