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I B M.0^iij,, .i»#*%xil> /^UR 11^^1'sery business began 



I HOW AND WHY t Uincidentally. We began as 



% WE'VE GROWN. | peach growers for the market. 



%€€;€€€€€€€^€^€€€€€$^€€€^^ This necessitated trees so in or- 

 der to get just what we wanted, 

 we planted our own seed and employed an expert budder and we 

 learned under him. Our neighbors observed our success in tree pro- 

 ducing and began to place with us orders for their trees. 



This was ten years ago. Those who have reaped crops of fruit 

 are our best friends and customers. They are most pronounced in 

 their praise of us. They are ready to tell the world that what we 

 sell is the best and true to name. This peach nursery business which 

 was only 2,000 trees the first year has steadily grown from year to 

 year, till it has reached the stupendous figures of one and a half 

 million trees. This is the number of trees actually growing today 

 in our nurseries. Fall '96 planting was over 500 bushels Tennessee 

 peach seed. 



In 1888 we began selling strawberry plants — but had grown for 

 fruit for years back. The history of this department is similar to the 

 other, first fruit growing then supplying our neighbors with plants 

 then going upon the markets of the world. Twenty five thousand 

 in 1888, two million and a half in 1896, and ten million to offer for 

 1897. This is the story in a nut shell. 



In 1892 we added asparagus roots. Similar story, push, push, 

 push; in the field first to raise the stock, then in the office to sell it. 



In 1894 we added the Japan plum, and have now budded over 

 fifty thousand on plum and thirty five thousand on peach. 



The firm originally consisted of J. G. Harrison, the father, and 

 Orlando Harrison, the son, the latter but a youth in his teens,. The 

 elder Harrison was a farmer by instinct and training- industrious arkl 

 capable of atteiiding to the stock, this he did till four years ao-o, when 

 a younger son, Mr. G. A. Harrison was admitted to the firm to as- 

 sist in this department* The business department was Undertake-^ 

 by our Mr. Orlando Harrison, w ho, as we have said, was then in his 

 teens. He gre;w with the business and the business grew^ with hiiii. 

 Each member of the firm has a department which is entrusted to his 

 care; so you see we don't grow nursery stock from an office under the 

 care of hired labor. We do the work ourselves and see that it isdone 

 properly. Our patrons have no risk to run. They get what they 

 order in kind, price and quality. 



R10FERENCE:— Bradstrect Mercantile Agency, R. G. Dunn & Co., Priviate 

 3ank of L. L. Dirrickson, Jr. , Berlin, Mel. 



