Homer N. Chase & Co., Geneva, New York 
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A partial view of a two-hundred-acre Apple orchard 
Fruit Department 
Western New York is not only adapted by soil and climate conditions to the production 
of fruits, but nature has been equally generous in supplying the elements necessary for the 
propagation of a superior grade of nursery stocks, which will include fruit and ornamental trees,, 
shrubs and roses. Our location offers many advantages not found elsewhere for propagating^ 
fruit trees, which, after careful attention in the nursery, will, under even the most ordinary 
conditions, become sturdy and profitable trees. 
The Chase Nurseries are situated in the heart of a great fruit-belt, near the foot of Seneca 
Lake, one of the chain of New York's beautiful inland lakes. The proximity of this body of 
water has the effect of slightly raising the temperature in winter, therefore the young trees are 
not subjected to the extremely low degrees of cold that are reached in many sections. Likewise 
in summer the water tends to cool the air; and in fall the lake, which has been warmed by sum- 
mer suns, lengthens the growing season by holding off the early frosts. 
The soil, too, seems to have been prepared by Nature's forces for the nurseryman. It is 
principally of a limestone formation, with here and there strips of clay, loam and sand — the 
three soils that our experience has shown to be best adapted to the nursery stocks that wc grow, 
and this leads us to say that we do not believe that any one nursery is so situated that it cart 
successfully grow all varieties of trees. Our fifty years' experience in the nursery business has 
shown to us most convincingly that varieties propagated in certain favorable localities are 
stronger, mature quicker, and produce better fruit than the same varieties propagated in un- 
favorable localities. 
This latter statement applies with equal force to the growing of fruit as well as trees, and we 
shall be pleased to assist any one in making a selection of such varieties as are best suited to the 
locality in which they are to be grown. We can help you because we know what kinds are best 
suited for your locality. When the right varieties of Chase Nursery trees are selected, planted 
carefully and given reasonable care, there is no reason why they should not flourish and pro- 
duce profitable crops. 
For many years Western New York has been famed for its nursery industries and fruit 
orchards. Crowning the ridge that runs along the south shore of Lake Ontario, with the western 
end at Niagara Falls, the eastern just about touching the city of Syracuse, lies one of the richest, 
fruit-belts of this country. Marvelous stories of the profits made in some of these orchards are. 
told at the annual meetings of the orchard owners — stories that are almost unbelievable unless 
you know the men and the conditions that prevail in that wonderfully fertile region. But the. 
stories are true, and the same successes are being achieved yearly by men who make fruit-grow- 
ing a study, and who bring their knowledge and accumulating experience to bear on attaining 
the one important result, the growing and marketing of fine fruits. 
