CAUTION! 
We would caution our patrons ngainst buying from agents purporting to be 
ours, as we have no agents whatever throngbout the State for the sale of our valu- 
able kinds of Nut and Fruit Trees, such as ' Second Generation" Prceparturiens, 
Cluster and other rare sorts of Walnuts, Chestnuts, Prunes and other Fruits. 
Also beware of fraud, and don't you get common aud worthless kinds of Euglish 
Walnuts for Proeparatriens, Cluster and other choice sorts introduced by us into 
California and the United States ; also common varieties of Prunes for such as we 
advertise. 
TERMS. 
Our terms are invariably cash (and we intend to stick to that rule, not having 
a stock large enough to warrant us in making credits for any amounts to anybody)- 
Kemittances may be made, according to tlie amount of orders, by Express or Postal 
Money Orders, Registered Letters, Bank Drafts and Ex|)ress. Very small amounts 
(50 cents to $1.00) can be sent in postage stamps of two and five cents. 
"BARREN HILL." 
Much surprise has been manifested by a great many people at ilie stiange and 
plain name given to our popular and well known nurseries, " Harrkn Hill." The 
fine system of roots aud healthfulness of all trees and plants, as giown upon 
our so-called "Barren Hill," have intensified still more deeply the surprise of all, 
and well could they exclaim: " What's in a name!" Well, we couldn't help it if 
our place, before we made of it the beautiful spot that it is to-day. and one of the 
best cultivated pieces of Innd in Northern California, was nothing but a rough, 
barren, dismal looking place, sprinkled all over with a bountiful supply of Pine 
aud Ce iar stumps, aud huge boulders and rocks, and with only six to eight inches 
of rather poor soil on the top of hard, yellow clay, mixed, here aud there, with 
dir-integrated granite, from all of which the hill derived its "realistic" if not 
poetical, name of "Barren." We couldn't help it, neither, if of necessity we had 
to settle upon this dismal looking place rather than look around for better land that 
we had been unable to purchase; and well may we say to-day that we are proud of 
this barren hill of ours. Our experiment iias demonstrated, too, what industry aud 
perseverance may accomplish on some of the poorest mountain laud of onr great 
State. "Thorough cultivation" of the soil, is the whole secret of our sncct-ss; aud 
from the fact that our trees owe their splendid system of roots, vitality aud h alth. 
fulness to "thorough culture," and not to rich moist soil, or well niauuied firouul 
and intensive irrigation, is another guarantee given our patrons, either from a warm 
or cold climate, with poor or rich ground, as to the succ. ssful trausp anting of such 
trees to their respective parts of the couuti^y. 
Our trees, besides being well provided with a fine system of roots— and good roots 
imply good health— are entirely free of insect pests, scales, spiders aud Phylloxera 
being unknown at Barren Hill's attitude— 2,601) feet above the level of the sea. 
Our rooted grape cuttings are from cuttingi planted upright in small ditches 
18 to 24 inches apart, and have, therefore, the whole system of roots right at the 
butts, where it should always be. 
