Neoiho, £Io. 
Success in Fruit-Growing 
is a heavy clay. 
How to Prepare the Ground — Land that has been in some cultivated farm crop is 
usually in the best condition for fruit trees. Plow deep. You will never again be able to 
work the ground deeply under the trees. Work the ground thoroughly with a disk harrow 
and then several times with a spike-tooth harrow, and smooth with a plank drag. 
For fall planting, plow in the late summer. For spring planting, it is better to plow 
in the fall, unless your orchard is on a steep hillside that would wash badly, or the soil 
When to Order — If you order early, you run no risk of 
being unable to secure just the varieties or siaes jou prefer. 
For instance, our XXX apple, diameter % inch, are more 
scarce than smaller sizes and are the first to be sold. 
Where to Order — You can order direct from the nur- 
sery or from a salesman or dealer, but in any case it is vital 
to your interest to buy only from reliable people. We have 
no salesmen or middlemen anywhere and pay no commissions 
to anyone, but sell direct-from-nurseries only, at prices which 
are the same to all buyers of like sizes, kinds, and quantities. 
This method enables us to help the customer to start right 
and to care for his nursery stock properly after it is planted- 
The success of the planter depends chiefly upon his own acta 
in planting, cultivation, pruning, spraying, etc. Every cus- 
tomer receives one or both of our guide-books, "Inside Facts 
of Profitable Frui^Growing" or "How to Beautify Your 
Home Groimds," as soon as his order is sent in. 
"It is best to deal directly with respCDBible nureeriee aed to order 
early, submitting requirements to a number of firms for bids." — Bulletin 
128, Peimsylvania State College, Agricultural Experiment Station. 
"First-class condition is one hundred times more important than 
any outside information regarding the 
place where the trees were growr." 
"The section from which trees 
come is uLimportaut so long as well- 
grown, healthy trees which are typical 
of the desired varieties are obtained." 
— H. P. GotTLD, U. S. Pomologist. 
"The inherent qualities of a vari- 
ety do not change when the trees 
are grown in different sections of 
the country. If the variety is hardy, 
it will continue to be so; if it is sus- 
ceptible to some disease, it is not made 
less so by growing the tree during its 
nursery period in some particular re- 
gion." — Farmers' Bulletin No, 631, 
United States Department of Agricult- 
ure. 
What Kind to Order— If you 
were buying pigs to fatten for 
market, would you pick out the 
"runts" just because they cost 
less? Of course not. 
You may see advertisements 
of low-priced fruit trees — apple 
trees 4 cents up, etc. There 
must be something the matter 
with them. Good trees can not 
be grown for that price. All 
experienced horticulturists and 
successful fruit-growers empha- 
size the importance of buying 
only firstrclasB stock. Read 
what they say : 
"A saving of $2 to $3 in the price 
of nursery stock may be lost a hun- 
dred times over before the first crop is 
gathered. This is one point at which 
parsimonious economy is like dropping 
money down a well." — Prof. ^Frank 
A. WAT7QH, Amherst, Mass. 
There is no economy in buying stock cheap in both price 
and quality. 
"It makes little or no difference where the tree was grown, so fat 
as the climatic conditions are concerned; but what does make a difference 
is having good thrifty stock." — PnoF. F. C. Seabb, Professor of Pomology. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
"Cheap trees are seldom, if ever, a bargain; the grower should 
insist on having first-class trees, and should be willing to pay for them- 
Provided the trees reach the grower in good condition, it matters little 
where they aie grown." — "Fruit-Growing in Arid Regions," by Profs. 
Paddock and Whipple. 
How to Know Good Trees— The beginner's trouble is 
in knowing what makes a first-class tree. He will naturally 
be guided by the opinions of expert horticulturists and 
successful fruit-growers. 
"Good trees should have a good healthy look, clean bark, and 
size enough to indicate a good free growth. Siie of top is not ?o desirable 
as well-matured wood and plenty of roots." — Pkof. E. J. Wickbon 
University of California. 
"A poorly rooted tree may eventually make a satisfactory orchard 
tree, but it will be several years longer coming into bearing. Aside from 
the general health of the stock, perhaps no other factor is of so great 
importance as that it be well-rooted." — Circular No. 61, Bureau of Plant 
Industry, United States Departmert of Agriculture. 
A few fruit trees, plums, peaches, pears, cherries, apples, and small fruits in a garden, or 
even a back yard, pay tor themselves a hundred times over 
