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TENNESSEE NURSERY CO., CLEVELAND, TENN. 
Cleveland, Tennessee, is a natural climate for the raising of nursery stock, and this fact 
emphasizes, in an indisputable manner, our claim to the production of an unexcelled and un- 
equalled stock. It is just as natural for the best stock to grow in this section — an ideal central 
climate — as it is natural for the big trees to grow in California, for polar bears to inhabit the 
cold North, for cotton to grow in the sunny South, or for bananas to grow in the tropics. 
Our location, which is so favorable for the production of fruit trees and plants, has a great 
deal to do with their quality. This place has more favorable conditions for the production 
of nursery stock of the highest quality than any other location in the United States. The 
soil, climate and seasons are ideal for this purpose. Our stock is grown in an ideal central 
climate, where it is not parched by the scalding sun of the extreme South; where it is not frozen 
by the cold blizzards of the North; where it is not affected by Western drouths; where it is not 
disfigured by the destructive winds of the Southwest; where it gets the needed rest that nature 
intended — not too long a rest as the long winters of the North, and not too short a rest as the 
short winters of the South. Our stock comes nearer growing and thriving in all parts of the 
world than any other, because it is grown in an ideal central climate. It will grow anywhere 
that the different varieties of fruit trees and plants can be grown, and sometimes our stock 
thrives where it was thought that such varieties could not be grown successfully. There are 
many orchards, from far up in Canada to way down in Mexico that are growing, thriving and 
bearing, and the trees were grown by us in this ideal, central, mountain climate. 
Our stock is sought for by the growers of the Southern States because they have more 
vitality, more energy and better bearing qualities than those grown in the extreme South. 
They have the needed rest and dormant period which nature intended they should have, and 
which is very essential to the bearing qualities. For these same reasons it is in great demand 
in California. Our stock also has many other advantages over those grown in the North, 
South, East or West, because of the ideal central, mountain climate, soil and other favored 
conditions of this locality that do not exist elsewhere. The drouths of the West, the extreme 
cold of the North, the hot sun of the South, the winds of the Southwest, the unfavorable con- 
ditions of the East are but a few of the many things that make our stock superior to that grown 
in any of those sections. 
PEACH 
All budded trees on roots of Tennessee natural peach seedlings. 
Peaches come into bearing so soon and there is such an unlimited demand for the fruit 
that the enormous planting of commercial peach orchards still continue. Millions of trees 
have been planted in recent years, and the supply of nursery grown stock is not sufficient to 
keep up with the demand. Florida and Texas are rivaling Georgia and Michigan in the mag- 
nitude of their plantings. New York and Connecticut are becoming large peach producers. 
With the hardier varieties that we now propagate, it is possible to grow peaches successfully 
in almost any section. Clean culture, annual pruning and frequent examination for borers 
are the requisites for success. By careful thinning to get large and perfect specimens, there 
seems to be a profitable place for all home grown fruit. 
Peach growing has always been a specialty in our nursery, both from the viewpoint of 
producing better, healthier and stronger trees, and eliminating all varieties but the best. Each 
and every variety of peaches offered in this catalogue has been tested in our test orchards. 
We have taken years of painstaking work and experiment and exercised a deal of moral cour- 
age in planting and testing different varieties as to manner of growth, foliage, time of ripening, 
color, their shipping and keeping qualities, etc. During the last ten years we have had over 
two hundred varieties of peaches in our test orchards, and we have tried nearly all varieties 
and have culled out all but those that deserve merit. In our test orchards we give each sort 
a trial, as fair and impartial a trial as the judge gives men accused of crime that come before 
