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HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
THE APPLE. 
No fruit is more in de¬ 
mand, more universally 
liked, or more generally 
used than the Apple. Its 
uses are many and of in¬ 
estimable value. The ear¬ 
liest varieties commence 
to ripen the latter part of 
June, and the later varie¬ 
ties can be kept until the 
coming of the early kinds 
the following year, mak¬ 
ing it a fruit in perfec¬ 
tion the entire year. 
The Apple is a world- 
renowned fruit of temper¬ 
ate climates. Although 
not possessed of the rich¬ 
ness, melting and deli¬ 
cious qualities of the 
pear or peach, yet its 
great adaptation to a 
great variety of soils,, to¬ 
gether with the long time 
through which many va¬ 
rieties may be kept in a 
fresh state, its various 
uses, and the profits ac¬ 
cruing from it as a mar¬ 
ket fruit, it must be re¬ 
garded as holding the 
very first rank among the 
fruits. There is no sec¬ 
tion of country where it 
attains such perfection 
as it does in this, nor 
where its cultivation can 
be made more profitable 
than in Virginia, West 
Virginia and parts of 
Pennsylvania, although 
there may be other States 
equally as well adapted. 
It is evident that some 
Apples that are highly 
esteemed in one locality 
are worthless when re¬ 
moved to another soil or 
climate of a different 
character; hence comes so 
much disappointment and 
loss to those who have 
... , , _ •. , , • planted Northern Winter 
varieties which have for most part become Fall Apples. Some persons commit a great fault by attempt¬ 
ing to grasp all the varieties that are offered. It is far better for him who is about to plant an orchard, 
either large or small, to determine which varieties are best adapted for his purpose. For the small planter 
who is providing for the wants of the family a number of varieties that will ripen in quick succession 
Will be best, and the sorts should be selected with regard to their qualities for household use. The planter 
of extensive commercial orchards will need but a limited number of varieties, which should be selected 
with a view to the wants of the market he intends supplying as well as the productiveness of the fruit 
and its ability to bear transportation. 
BEN DAVIS. (See description, page 12.) 
VALUE OF AN APPLE ORCHARD. 
No man, neither young nor old, should deny himself from planting an apple orchard where cheap land 
~ ca £ 1 P^? c , ure ll. ^he wc i r i£ o ver ’ an( ^ w ^- a t we mean by cheap land is land that will grow good apple trees, 
whether it be $5.00 or $50.00 per acre. 
Many varieties of apples now come into bearing early. For instance, we were in the Nursery this 
morning, arid found apples on two-year blocks of Yellow Transparent, Wealthy, Missouri Pippin, Wag- 
ener, Ben Davis and a number of other varieties. Then why should a man say if he were young he would 
plant an apple orchard when apple trees come into bearing now almost as early as did peaches 25 years ago? 
There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land going to waste in the United States, especially in 
the rough portions of the mountain section, where there is nothing being grown at all. Land usually 
sloping to the east, with a good elevation, makes a good site for an apple orchard, although it is not so 
much the location as it is the man who has charge of the orchard. We know of apple orchards on level 
land that has been a paying investment for the grower. In West Virginia some individual trees of the 
York Imperial produced last year three barrels of fruit at seven years of age; others 20 barrels of apples 
at 20 years of age We know of another apple orchard of 35 acres planted to York Imperial and Ben Davis 
i a y 28 years old. We have been creditably informed there has been more than $80,000 worth of apples 
sold from this orchard during the past 20 years, and in 1905 alone the fruit from this orchard sold for 
more than $9,000. 
One Yellow Transparent Apple Tree eight years old last season netted $8.00 of the early apples.in 
Western Maryland. 
In Delaware, where apples have not been grown only for the past few years, last season one small 
fruit grower sold more than $15,000 worth of apples from varieties like Yellow Transparent, Fourth of 
July, Williams Early Red of the early kinds, and of later sorts like Wine Sap, Stayman’s Wine Sap, 
Nero, Rome Beauty and Stark. 
Apples do not give as quick returns as peaches and plums, but when they do come into bearing they 
are not as expensive to care for, and can be handled more easily, You can grow the trees and sell the 
entire fruit crop on the tree to hundreds of buyers, which you cannot often do with any other fruit. 
We would advise every young and old man as well to plant an apple orchard, and do not deceive your- 
Self by saying it will be no good. Let us plant one for another. " ' • ’ . T 
