STATE OF NEW YORK—No. 4085 
Department of Agriculture & Markets 
HOLTON V. NOYES, Commissioner 
Certificate of Inspection of Nursery Stock 
This is to Certify that the nursery stock of THE E H 
BURSON NURSERY of CLIFTON, County of Monroe, State 
of New York, has been duly examined in comoliance with the 
Agriculture and Markets Law and has been found to be 
apparently free from all injurious insects and plant diseases. 
This certificate is valid until Oct. 1, 1938, unless revoked 
before that date. Dated, Albany, N. Y., Sept. 1, 193 7. 
H. V. NOYES, Commissioner. 
A. B. BUCHHOLZ, Director, Bureau Plant Industry. 
WORTH CONSIDERING 
You can secure your needs at 20% less than catalog price, and 
freight paid by us. While we do not employ agents, we do give 
some of our friends the chance to get their needs at a considerable 
less price, for a little work. In this way, you may have neighbors 
who want to plant little or much, maybe 5 or 6 of them, or a less 
number. If you will secure and tabulate their orders, sending us 
the money to cover, we will book at catalog prices, assemble the 
stock, and ship in one or more packages, according to size of the 
combined order, bundling each order in separate lots, properly 
tagged, etc., and ship all to your address at the proper time. For 
this special service, we will include such trees and plants as you 
; may desire to plant at 20% less than catalog prices; that is, if 
your individual needs amount to $10.00, we will include in the 
shipment, stock for $8.00, or proportion according to size of your 
individual order. Further, we will ship these combination orders, 
freight prepaid, so that you will not have to call upon your friends 
for any additional amount to cover freight expense and you will 
get your needs at a price 20 cents less on each dollar, and all rail¬ 
road charges prepaid by us. This will save your friends the trouble 
of mailing us their order, and all express or freight charges. If 
this offer appeals to you, we will send you order sheets and plant¬ 
ing directions so that it will be easy to take orders. 
E. H. BURSON, the Manager and Owner of the E. H. Burson 
Nursery, Successors to the Green’s Nursery Company, has had 54 
years’ experience in handling help, growing, digging, packing and 
shipping out live trees and plants. Beginning as a general work¬ 
man in the spring of 1884 with CHAS. A. GREEN, the founder of 
the Nursery, he soon rose to foreman of the Packing House, and 
was for over 40 years Superintendent of the extensive concern— 
was a major stockholder of the Corporation and for some time 
Secretary, and a Member of the Board of Directors. Is now active, 
and ready to serve any of the thousands of Green’s old patrons, 
and the new ones that are being daily added to the list of the satis¬ 
fied friends—see testimonials. 
CORRESPOND -Many of our orders are secured through cor¬ 
respondence with prospective patrons. Write us your problems, 
ask us about varieties, send us a list of the trees and plants you 
are thinking of planting, ask for special quoted prices on a speci¬ 
fied list. Although our printed prices may be low, we can save you 
good money. Often we have a surplus of some varieties and can 
make lower figures—especially on quantity lots. 
AS TO ONE YEAR TREES —Some fruit growers will plant noth¬ 
ing but one year trees, and there’s a reason. They claim that one 
year trees are generally better rooted, considering the size than 
two year, that they can head them back the desired height so that 
they will be low headed, and when come into fruiting, the fruit 
can be picked, and the trees sprayed at half the cost of the high 
headed trees. We agree with these fruit growers-if planting an 
orchard—naturally if one needs a few trees for the home garden, 
it is advisable to plant the 2 year No. 1, and head the last season’s 
growth of twigs back say, two-thirds, when planting. We can sup¬ 
ply a nice grade of one year trees—ask for prices. 
MANY ORCHARDISTS prefer to plant the medium sized two 
year fruit trees, considering the price, and because heretofore they 
have had good success. Facts are that the medium sized trees are 
just as good shaped and rooted, but owing to being thick in the 
nursery row, or in a location where heavy growth was retarded, 
owing to soil conditions, they do not grade up to the No. 1 size. 
It is further well-known that a medium sized tree or even a poor 
grade No. 1, properly planted and cared for, stands a far better 
chance of growing into a profitable, fruitful tree than a No. I 
grade tree carelessly planted and neglected the first year or two. 
We offer a medium grade of trees at considerably lower prices 
than the No. 1. 
TWO YEAR TRANSPLANTED. Black and Purple Raspberries 
are in short supply, but as noted, we list one year tip plants, which 
many planters prefer to plant in place of two year. Some plant¬ 
ers claim they have better success with one year plants than with 
two year, and the cost is about half as much. You pay, say $60.00 
per thousand for two year plants, whereas the cost of one year is 
$3 0.00, and although the one year do not produce fruit the first 
season you should have a good crop the season following. We 
plant one year plants for our commercial plots. 
If you have had experience with small red raspberry plants, and 
have had success we can supply such plants. These (such as we 
line out) we can supply at half the price of our selected ready-to- 
bear plants, as listed. In brief, we list only strong No. 1 and 
medium sized plants at a fair price for such, but can supply a 
lighter grade at a much lower price to those who want such, and 
these guaranteed good, of their grade. 
Our grape vines are especially heavy-many of them three year 
old transplanted stock, and should produce fruit, if not this sea¬ 
son, surely in 1939. We could send you small one year vines at 
less than half our price for these as listed, but you would be dis¬ 
satisfied even considering the small price. 
THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING SHRUBS 
Our Shrubs as listed here are mainly the good well-known, 
hardy, sure-blooming varieties. These offered for shipment by 
express or freight are several times transplanted, No. 1, ready-to- 
bloom this year. Do not confuse these exceptionally heavy plants 
with those offered by some nurseries at a very low price. NOTE: 
We do offer a lighter grade for shipment by parcel post, all 
charges prepaid by us, but these are extra strong well rooted but 
of a less bulk size. There has been for the past two years such a 
surprising extra demand for shrubs, owing to new houses being 
built, that there is a decided scarcity, and prices are higher, some 
growers having increased their prices 50%. Generally our prices 
are not much higher than heretofore, except for a few varieties 
now not procurable in some nurseries. 
TESTIMONIALS (Unsolicited) OLD and NEW 
Telling proofs of good service. Every season perhaps 50% of 
our orders have come in from well satisfied old patrons, 25% from 
new patrons that have been advised to buy of us by those well 
pleased patrons. One spring season we found that 70% of our 
orders, and there were thousands received, were from those who 
had previously dealt with us. We do not need to do expensive 
newspaper and periodical advertising to secure all the orders we 
can fill, but naturally we want a lot of new patrons—our old 
patrons’ good word and our Guarantee is your guarantee of being 
served in the best possible way. 
RASPBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES & CURRANTS 
Found by us and conceded by the majority of small fruit grow¬ 
ers to be the most profitable of the bush fruits commercially, and 
it is well known that a row in the home garden, supplying the 
table daily with fresh picked fruit, and for canning and jelly is 
something that the housewife values perhaps above anything else. 
A planting of Raspberries has been known to grow and furnish 
satisfying crops for 25 years, while Currant plants that were 
planted 50 years ago are found fruiting more or less every year. 
The best crop of Blackberries (Thimbleberries) that I ever saw 
being harvested in this vicinity, had fruited heavily for 36i years. 
STRAWBERRIES 
Sensational crops and profits are recorded by some growers. 
We have found that an acre of the leading good varieties carefully 
planted and cared for—take one year with another, say for five 
years, pays us better than ten acres planted to general farm 
crops, and on our own farm, we grow strawberries by the acre, 
and many acres of wheat, oats, hay, etc., keeping track of expense 
and receipts annually. The initial cost of a planting of strawberries 
is the main item. The Everbearing varieties produce a good crop 
the first season after planting, and the June bearing varieties, if 
planted in the spring, a good crop the next year after planting. 
Usually two crops can be assured of—some let the plants fruit 
another year, generally securing a big crop the first picking, a 
satisfactory crop the second year, and a paying crop the third. 
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