“Ill Grow Apples Instead of Hay 
—You’ll Say It If You Try to Buy Fruit Now in City Markets 
For clean apples of good size you’ve got to pay 75 cents a dozen in city retail 
grocery stores. This has been the price since about the first of January. It is six and 
a half cents each, or about $4.50 a bushel box. Stayman, Baldwin and other standard 
varieties are all the same price. 
If you are a farmer why not get some of this money? Ten acres of apples are 
good for a thousand dollars a year clear profit if you just give the trees modern care. 
A good ten-acre crop that had been sprayed right could be sold to-day at wholesale for 
three or four thousand dollars. 
To plant ten acres of apples costs something like this: Land (highest), $1,000; 
trees and planting, $375; cultivation and care for five years, $600; total, less than $2,000. 
This included big wages for you. If you do the work the cash outlay need not be more 
than $300. 
THE APPLE CROP IS THE PROFIT CROP. 
A woman who owns a half interest in a New York 
farm told the writer that the apple crop on their 
place gave them nearly all their profit. When the 
apple crop is good they have a dividend. When it 
is short that year’s net income is slim. They do 
not use the best methods either. There are hun¬ 
dreds of farms where this is true. The apple crop 
is the money crop, the profit crop. No other crop 
that New England or New York or Pennsylvania 
farmers grow equals it in this respect. 
THE APPLE GROWERS ARE THE PROS¬ 
PEROUS FARMERS. Go where you will, this 
fact strikes the careful observer. A twenty-acre 
apple orchard that is handled properly nearly al¬ 
ways brings more income han a 200-acre farm 
given to raising hay, grain and stock. Couldn’t 
you get a bigger income with easier work by plant¬ 
ing an apple orchard? What’s the use of killing 
yourself farming a hundred acres for a bare living 
when you can become prosperous by caring for 
twenty acres of apples? Better let your surplus 
land lie idle and grow apples on the few acres. 
PROPERLY GROWN APPLE TREES BEAR 
IN FIVE YEARS. It used to be that apple trees 
didn’t begin to bear till they were ten or twelve 
years old. This is one more of the old and need¬ 
less obstacles to orcharding that modern methods 
have overcome. Get good trees, plant and care for 
them as we tell you, and they will give you apples 
in five years or less time. The right kind of trees 
and care don’t cost more than poor trees and in¬ 
efficient care. 
WHAT VARIETIES SHOULD YOU PLANT? 
The good old Baldwin never has been surpassed 
for most New York conditions. It sells splendidly 
when grown in the northern climate, because of 
its distinctive flavor and high color. Plant Bald¬ 
win—it never will lose its popularity. Other 
apples that Now Are Yielding High Profits in 
New York and New England are Stayman, Rome 
Beauty, Ben Davis, Gano, Wealthy, Yellow Trans¬ 
parent, McIntosh and Stark. An orchard made up 
of three or four of these varieties is sure to yield 
good profits if it receives good care. Rome Beauty, 
Stark and Gano are in great demand for baking in 
restaurants and homes. They hold their shape 
when baked. This use of apples has increased a 
thousand per cent, in three years, and it will con¬ 
tinue to increase. 
THE OVERPRODUCTION BUGABOO. “Ap¬ 
ple planting is overdone.” “There’s too many new 
orchards planted.” Expressions like these are heard 
now and then from pessimists. Right in the 
face of their predictions the prices of apples keep 
climbing higher and higher, and the demand gets 
greater. There never will be too many apples of 
good varieties when they are grown clean and 
flawless. Of course many young orchards planted 
during the last few years will fail to return profits 
expected—but that’s just because they lacked prop¬ 
er care. You don’t need to be one of the careless 
planters. 
Those We Grow Here At Berlin 
Few Other Apple Trees Equal 
Harrison’s Berlin-grown trees are superior to 
those grown where climate, soil and methods are 
not so good. This can be proved by comparing 
our trees with other trees, and by comparing the 
growth and crops made by our trees with the 
growth and crops made by other trees. These 
Harrison trees are adapted perfectly for Northern 
sections. 
HARRISON TREES ARE BIGGER THAN 
MOST OTHERS. Compare an average bunch of 
our trees with an average bunch of trees of same 
age from an inland nursery. Ten to one our trees 
will be a third taller and a fifth to a third thicker 
in trunks. 
HARRISON TREES ARE SMOOTHER AND 
STRAIGHTER. Compare the trunks of our trees 
with the trunks of inland-grown trees, and with 
trees grown under other systems of culture and 
pruning. Our trees will be smoother and free from 
knots and bumps. They will be straight and true 
in trunks. The bark will be healthy and clean. 
Such trees make better-looking orchards and are 
not likely to split down or lean as crooked, knotty 
trees. 
HARRISON TREES HAVE BIGGER ROOT 
SYSTEMS. Carefully dig out one of our trees and 
a tree from an inland nursery. Our tree will have 
a much larger bunch of roots, and roots that are 
finer and more fibrous. This is because of our 
loose, warm soil, and our special system of cultiva¬ 
tion. Our trees will take hold quicker and stronger 
when transplanted, and will grow faster than most 
other trees. 
HARRISON TREES ARE ABSOLUTELY 
HARDY IN THE NORTH. Tens of thousands 
of them are planted in New Brunswick, Ontario, 
Nova Scotia, New England and New York. They 
are entirely successful and hardy in those sections. 
USE THIS COUPON—IT’S AS GOOD AS A LETTER 
HARRISONS’ NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
Please send me your new Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees. I expect to plant 
] Apples Q Cherries 
] Peaches Q] Plums 
Shade Trees Q Roses 
] Evergreens Q Hedge Plants 
Pears Q Small Fruits Q Shrubs Q Vines 
I shall need about.of the 
plants marked. 
My Name. 
My Address, . 
The reason is that Harrisons’ Nurseries are located 
close to the Atlantic Ocean. Our trees are sub¬ 
jected to all the fury and cold of the Atlantic gales, 
and are tempered by the storms. 
HARRISON TREES ARE BUDDED FROM 
BEARING ORCHARDS. A few years ago we 
began to bud our fruit trees from bearing orchards 
selected for superior growth and yielding. This 
gives our young trees inbred tendencies to bear 
earlier, more regularly and heavier than average 
trees. This parentage, plus our climate, soil and 
methods, gives the ability to bear bigger crops. 
SPECIAL LOW-HEADED TWO-YEAR 
TREES. We have pruned and trained several 
thousand Baldwin and other apple trees to special 
low heads just as they should be in orchards. 
These trees now are two years old. They are big 
and straight and of the highest Harrison quality. 
They will make fine orchards quickly. If inter¬ 
ested in them, write and ask about them. 
WE GROW AT BERLIN ALL THE TREES 
WE SELL. Every fruit tree that leaves Berlin has 
been propagated and grown here. We buy no fruit 
trees at wholesale and sell them again at retail. 
We back our trees till they bear, because we know 
all about them from the seed and the bud. 
PEACH AND PEAR TREES MUST NOT BE 
OVERLOOKED. You will find them here by the 
million, and just as fine ones as the apple trees. 
Kieffer Pear trees this year are especially fine, and 
Kieffer is as great a money maker as ever in New 
Jersey and New York. Ray, Crawford’s Late, El- 
berta and other peach trees, the like of which you 
can’t find elsewhere, await your order here. 
THE HARRISON NURSERIES ARE THE 
BEST EQUIPPED IN THE COUNTRY. We 
employ more skilled men than any other nursery 
in America. Some of the greatest nursery and fruit 
experts in the country are on our payroll. Harri¬ 
sons’ Nurseries have more acres in young fruit 
trees and plants than any other nursery in the 
country. Here trees are grown with maximum 
efficiency and at lowest cost, quality considered. 
Get the Harrison Books for 1914 
This year’s catalog is one of the best fruit books 
published. It gives the facts about varieties, tells 
how to plant, and quotes our famous low prices. 
It is sent on request. Write TO-DAY for your 
copy. 
Our shade tree and evergreen book is sent free. 
If you are interested in home planting, write for a 
copy. Our complete guide book for orchardists, 
“How to Grow and Market Fruit,” is sent for 50 
cents, and that amount rebated when you send us 
a $5 order. 
HARRISONS’ NURSERIES, Box 4S4, Berlin, Md. 
Why not come to Berlin this Spring and pick 
your trees from the nursery fields? Come and see 
our orchards. We will pay your hotel bill in Berlin. 
