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Harrisons’ Nurseries, Berlin, Maryland 
Ililey—The Famous Southern Peach 
HILEY (HILEY BELLE) —Early, white freestone, medium 
size, highly red colored, very firm, being an exceedingly 
handsome creamy white peach with a delightful red cheek; 
flesh is white, fine texture, aromatic, very juicy and of the 
highest flavor. Tree is strong grower, very healthy and a 
marvelous heavy bearer. Being an excellent shipper, with 
the stamina to withstand very long hauls under refrigera¬ 
tion, together with its beautiful, most appetizing appearance, 
and being easily attractively packed in six-gallon carriers, 
bushels and half-bushels, along with its recent high repu¬ 
tation and favor with the buying public, has made Ililey a 
strong contender as the highest general averaged priced 
peach. One of our customers who bought several thousand 
Ililey trees from us a few years ago picked from this or¬ 
chard during 1929 over 80 cars of Ililey peaches, being 
properly sprayed, thoroughly cultivated and with ample fer¬ 
tilizer, this insuring only high quality, machine graded, 
packed ring-faced in round half-bushel baskets, United 
States Number One grade. Government Inspected, were 
shipped during early summer of 1929, and the general aver¬ 
age on all cars of Hiley being more than 81,100 net cash 
per refrigerator car f.o.b. Fort Valley, Georgia. This same 
customer, who made the largest profit in his entire peach 
career, bought approximately 15,000 peach trees from us 
again in December, 1929, consisting of a large percentage 
of Hiley. Many of our varieties are propagated direct from 
the original strain, and Ililey being no exception, as our 
late Mr. George A. Harrison cut the buds from the orchard 
of Mr. Eugene Hiley of Marshallville, Georgia, the orig¬ 
inator of Hiley, then kncwn as Early Belle, and later as 
Ililey Early Belle, now known as Hiley. Our Messrs. Har¬ 
rison have frequently visited Georgia and also cut buds from 
trees being propagated direct from the original strain of 
Hiley from the famous Hiley orchards of Humph Brothers 
of Marshallville, Georgia. Add Harrisons’ Strain of Hiley 
to your commercial plantings for real profit. 
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