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What '"'’How to Grow and Market 
Fruit Tells You How to Do 
The book is a complete handbook for fruit¬ 
growers. It begins by explaining the fourteen 
essentials for growing fruit, tells the best methods 
of preparing, fertilizing, cultivating and mulching 
soil; tells all about planting, laying out orchards, 
avoiding frost damage, the proper training of trees 
(which usually is merely pruning), how to thin and 
get big, perfect crops every year, all necessary facts 
about insects, rots, scales, scabs, blotch, blight, 
etc., and exactly how and when to spray so as to 
control them completely. 
Here are given plain directions for making the 
very best spraying materials, if you do not want to 
buy prepared mixtures, and for spraying for any 
troublesome insects and fungi. Suggestions are 
given about all the tools you will need in handling 
your trees to the best advantage; about grafting, 
tree surgery, the repairing of split forks, etc.; 
making trees bear when they seem slow about it, or 
are entirely barren; pollination, or the cross- 
fertilizing of blossoms; what varieties to select for 
each purpose and every locality; special cultivation 
demanded; special insect and fungous enemies. 
These subjects will give you an idea of the valuable 
material in the book, and how necessary it is for 
both owners of commercial and home orchards. 
Special attention is given to systems of growing 
crops between young trees to hasten bearing and 
increase fertility. Apple trees can be made to 
bear a bushel each when five years old. Do you 
know how to make them do it? The book tells how. 
Following this, and completing the book, is a very 
comprehensive discussion of picking, packing and 
marketing. Here are directions for grading your 
A jour-year-old Ray Peach tree in our orchard 
fruit, for packing your apples in boxes in western 
style, and suggestions for selling fruit to the best 
advantage. The price of the book is 50 cents, 
and with the book you will receive a coupon which 
we will accept as 50 cents whenever you send us an 
order for trees, etc., to the amount of $5 or more. 
Or, send us an order now for trees or plants amount¬ 
ing to $5 or more, and we will mail you the book, 
prepaid. 
THE PLANTING AND CARE OF FRUIT TREES 
When to Plant. It depends on your latitude 
how early or how late you may plant. If north 
of the Mason and Dixon Line, plant dormant trees 
whenever the ground is not frozen. It can be done 
as late as June 1, but the earlier the better. Of 
course, you have to depend a great deal on the 
weather conditions, the condition of the trees and 
on the condition of the soil. Full particulars are 
given in our book “How to Grow and Market 
Fruit.” It is advisable, where winters are not 
unusually severe, to plant in the fall, mainly on 
account of the convenience to the planter. There is 
generally less work to be done on the farm in the 
fall than in the spring, and again, the trees get 
started off to growing earlier 
when warm weather comes. 
When Trees Arrive. 
When trees arrive, unpack at 
once, cut open the bundles 
and heel them in without 
any delay, each variety by 
itself. Be sure that the labels 
are carefully kept with each 
bundle. Do your work care¬ 
fully and thoroughly. See 
that no water stands around 
where the trees are trenched. 
Dig a ditch leading off from 
where the trees are trenched, 
to carry the surface water off. 
Be careful to see that all 
straw and moss is removed 
from the trees before trench¬ 
ing. When unpacking and 
trenching, if the least bit 
dry, “puddle” the roots be¬ 
fore heeling-in. Mix a suffi- 
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YOU WON’T MAKE ANY MISTAKE IF YOU PLANT HARRISONS’ TREES 
