INTRODUCTORY 
We take this opportunity to thank those who have so hberally patronized us the past 
year, and we are especially thankful to those who have so kindly recommended our stock 
to their friends, and in all such cases we feel in honor bound to do our utmost to sustain 
the recommendations so many of our customers have given us. 
It is not our ambition to do an immense wholesale nurserj' business, but rather to carry 
on a carefully conducted retail trade, making sure that every customer is well served and 
given full value for his money. 
We employ skilled and experienced help in digging, handling and packing our stock, 
giving it constant personal supervision, and every known precaution is taken to have all 
stock true to label, and handled and packed in such a way as to reach the customer in the 
best condition. 
Our entire time from boyhood has been given to growing fruits, trees and plants. 
Having only limited capital and little experience, we started in a small way, feeling our 
way along and trying each year to increase our business. We have given close personal 
attention to our business, aided by competent and experienced foremen, and now we have 
over 1,000 acres in this state used in our business and having thereon peach orchards con- 
taining sixty to seventy thousand trees, and of apples about five thousand trees, the re- 
mainder being devoted to small fruits, nursery stock and general farm operations. 
We are on the main line of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., about twenty miles from 
Hartford, fifteen miles from New Haven and three miles from Meriden, and are also con- 
nected by trolley with these cities. We have a long side-track next to our packing-house 
which we use to great advantage in shipping. We are equipped to handle, and do much of 
our packing under cover, and if the planter does his part faithfully when he receives his 
order, success with our stock is certainly assured. 
To fully satisfy every customer that his interests are carefully considered when he 
intrusts his orders here, is our earnest ambition. 
DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE of buying Southern-grown peach trees and expect 
them to escape the "yellows," for it is a fact that such trees show infection just as quickly, 
when brought into an infected locality, as carefully grown trees that are produced in the 
immediate vicinity. 
In our twenty-five years experience, in growing peaches we have tried this repeat- 
edly with the same result ; this is not our experience alone, but that of many others who 
have tried it out and not only got the "yellows" just as quickly, but usually found them 
untrue to label. Our last experience in this line was in our orchard in Durham, Conn, 
where we have 150 acres planted in peach trees; all of the trees in this orchard being of our 
own growing, except 2,000 Carmans, and in all cases have proven true to name and unmix- 
ed, though the trees were the same as were sent to all our customers. 
The 2,000 trees of Carman we bought from the South because we had sold all of our 
own growing. The second year these trees showed two cases of "yellows" though none 
could be found in the vicinity and only thirty cases in the entire orchard of 30,000 trees, 
one-third of which were older. The next year each one of these "Carmans" bore specimens 
of Mountain Rose peaches and continued to show up "yellows" more than on any other 
part of the orchard. 
When you buy trees from the far South you don't know but that the seed or buds, 
or the trees themselves, came from a diseased locality. The work of growing these trees 
in the far South is usually performed by negroes, who cannot tell one label from another 
and care less, and it is no wonder that people that buy these trees get most everything but 
what they ordered. 
This "Southern Peach Tree Free from Yellows" argument is a plausible one and sure 
to catch many who have not had experience with such trees. Those who have would not 
plant such trees except as a last resort, but if any of our friends wish to try these trees 
we can usually get them from the most reliable sources at reasonable prices. 
THE BARNES BROTHERS NURSERY COMPANY, Incorporated 
YALESVILLE, CONNECTICUT 
