OATALOGUE 
Our Entire Time and Attentwn is given to the Nursery Business, having no other 
business whatever to conflict with it. 
Our Many Years of Experience in the improved methods of growing and handling 
Nursery Products, aided by a practical test in our experimental grounds of most 
of the varieties, our customers may rely upon having the benefit of our long 
experience. 
Selection of Varieties is a difficult matter to the inexperienced, and after looking 
over the Catalogue carefully, it is sometimes a perplexing question to decide just 
the thing wanted. It is always a pleasant duty to assist our friends, and all we 
ask you to do is to send us a list of the number wanted with the time you want 
the fruit to ripen, and we will take pleasure in making up a list and returning it 
to you. 
The Greatest Care should be used in the purchase of Nursery Stock. The cost 
at the Nursery is insignificant compared with the cost of taking care of it until it 
comes into bearing, and then if it should prove of but little value, the time, 
money, land and labor, have all been wasted. 
Experience is Costly but if you persist in trying it. give your orders to Northern 
Nurseries for Northern Varieties of fruits, and to the tree agent who exhibits 
fine specimens of fruits put up in alcohol and guarantees you to grow just such 
fruit, in a few years you will be ready to join that class of citizens who attach all 
the fault to the country in which they live instead of to their own poor judgment 
in buying the wrong thing. 
GENERAL INFORMATION 
Remember, in the early part of the season we can supply all the varieties 
named; but as the season advances some varieties will be sold out. In cases 
where we cannot furnish the specified varieties or sizes, unless advised to the 
contrary, we shall send that which as nearly as possible fills the desired place. 
Time to Plant all kinds of fruit trees in this latitude and south, is from the fir.st 
of November until Christmas, and any time through the winter months when the 
ground is not frozen, though early spring planting, if carefully done, succeeds 
well. Evergreens, Raspberries and Strawberries should be planted in the 
spring, or heavily mulched if planted in the fall. 
Do Not Order Stock Later than the Middle of March; by this time the sap is usually 
flowing freely and it is not safe to remove stock, our spring work is pressing us 
and we cannot give orders the time and attention we desire to. 
The Way to Plant a Tree is to plow the ground (the deeper the better), in strips 
of four to six feet each way, set a stake in the center of the check so as to get 
the rows straight, dig out a good sized hole at the stake, sufficiently large to 
allow the roots to go in without bending or cramping, trim off all the bruised roots, 
cut the side branches to half their length, the lower branches less than those above, 
set so as to be about the same depth they were in the Nursery, fill in with finely 
pulverized top soil leaving no vacancies around the roots; tread firmly if dry, 
lightly if wet, leaving the tree leaning slightly toward the southwest. Keep 
the ground well cultivated afterwards and the treesfree from weeds and grass. It 
is best to give the entire land to the orchard, but if necessary to grow a crop, let it be 
something that does not grow very high and requires good culture. Never plant 
in corn or .sow in grain. 
