HARRISONS’ NURSERIES, BERLIN, MARYLAND 
This shows the condition of a great many pretentious houses—no trees, no shrubs, just a bare lawn 
SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
To suggest briefly what you may do with trees and plants about your home, we give a table of some 
of the different plantings that may be made: 
Shade Groups 
Ornamental Groups 
Yard and Lawn Specimens 
Borders 
Close to Foundations 
Over Porches, etc. 
Ornamental Hedges 
Fences 
Roadsides 
Screens 
Windbreaks 
Snowbreaks 
You will not need a landscape architect to lay out a beautiful planting when your heart is in your 
home and your eyes once see the possibilities. You are thinking now about some simple planting that 
made a certain place stand out among its neighbors—just imagine how your place will look when surrounded 
by the deep green of the maples, the dark pines, silver spruces, golden arborvitses, groups of flowering 
shrubs and draperies of thick, leafy vines. A planting need not be elaborate and expensive to give beauty 
and pleasure. 
The ornamental trees we supply are grown here at Berlin, the same as our fruit trees, and will live and 
grow anywhere, north or south, under any fair chances. They receive the best of care in cultivation and 
pruning; they are fine specimens; their roots are extra good; they are graded liberally, which means that 
you get good, big trees for your money. You can beautify your home grounds with Harrison ornamentals 
without great expense, and the sooner you begin the sooner you will enjoy the pleasure of owning a beautiful 
home. 
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING ORNAMENTAL TREES, 
EVERGREENS, SHRUBS, ETC, 
If you are not ready to plant immediately upon the arrival of the trees, unpack them, mix some loamy 
soil into thin mud in a hole in the ground or in a tub, dip the roots in this till they have a good, thick coat, 
then trench them in with the tops toward the south. To do this, dig a ditch about 2 feet deep, the north 
side perpendicular and the south side sloping, lay the trees in, roots to the north. Cover roots and most of 
the trunks with a foot or so of dirt. When the time comes to plant, cut off, on a slant, the face of which is 
down, all broken roots. Give the trees another coat of thin mud, or set the bunch of trees in this mud and 
take them out one by one right at the holes. 
In preparing the ground for the trees, dig at least 2 feet deep and 3 feet wide. Thoroughly mix the soil 
you take out, and then you can put about a foot of it back. A recent development is to use a small amount 
of dynamite in preparing the holes. Run a bar down 30 to 40 inches, and explode a third, a half or a whole 
stick at the bottom of the hole. The charge should not throw out the dirt, but heave it. We recommend 
that you use dynamite whenever possible, as it prepares the soil much better than can be done in any other 
way, and makes the trees grow faster. 
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