THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Packing Sheds and Railroad Siding on the Nurseries of ./. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Maryland. 
Beauty, Winesap and Paragon. Most of these varieties 
are now in fruiting and are proving to be money makers 
on Ihe peninsula. 
In 1922, 400 cars of peaches and apples were market¬ 
ed. The firm has to a very large extent, by combining 
the orcharding with the nursery, solved the labor prob¬ 
lem, as they are enabled to give continuous employment 
to a great number of employees, the combination having- 
red need the slack season to a minimum. To keep the 
nursery and orchards in proper shape it requires from 
100 to 500 men and women, 100 mules and horses, 10 
tractors, 12 trucks, 30 power sprayers. 
Strawberry plants and aspargus roots form an import¬ 
ant industry on the peninsula and the business in these 
items often runs in the millions of plants every season. 
The personnel of the firm consists of Orlando Harri¬ 
son, G. Hale Harrison, Henry L. Harrison, Orlando Har¬ 
rison, Jr., John L. Harrison, Joseph G. Harrison, Jr., and 
Burbage Harrison. 
Very close touch is kept with the Maryland State Agri¬ 
cultural College. Extensive experiments in spraying are 
being carried on by the department in the orchards and 
nurseries. 
President Orlando Harrison is one of the favorite sons 
of the state of Maryland, now serving a second term in 
the State Senate. 
The land is very level and fertile, sandy loam on the 
top with a red clay sub-soil and is very fortunately situ¬ 
ated for shipping, siding from the railroad coming right 
to the packing sheds. Lumber is abundant in the region 
and the nurseries maintain their own saw mill so as to 
manufacture their own crates, boxes and carriers. 
Mr. Harrison has every confidence the locality will 
prove an excellent one in which to grow his own seed¬ 
ling apple and pear stock. The wild crab apple grows 
very abundantly and all the conditions seem to be there 
to make this branch of the business well worth trying. 
In fact, he has already located a section of land near the 
Sinepuxent Bay in which to make test plantings. 
The bulk of the shipment arc fruit trees and are plant¬ 
ed in Maryland, Georgia, Virginia and as far west as 
Oklahoma. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION DUES AND BADGE BOOK 
Dues Are Called, Also Data For the Badge Booh 
Charles Sizemore, secretary of the American Associ¬ 
ation of Nurserymen, is sending out his call for dues, for 
the Association, and for advertisements for the Badge 
Book. 
Nearly every nurseryman is familiar with the labor 
and detail necessary to even compiling a comparatively 
brief price list, when he has practically Ihe whole ol his 
data in his office or on the Nursery. If he will stop to 
think he will realize how much more difficult it is to get 
out a book like the Badge Book where he has to depend 
>n the copy coming from one hundred or more different 
ources, and the whole to be completed and brought out 
>n time without fail. 
There would be severe criticism if the secretary failed 
o have the Badge Book on hand at the opening ol the 
Convention. Now is the time to give the subject a little 
bought, every nurseryman is extremely busy at this linn* 
)f year or he should be, but he should set aside a little 
ime to give this matter attention and get it off his mind. 
decide the subject of his advertisement and send tin' copy 
to Mr. Sizemore so that he can serve you by being up to 
Ihe minute with his work for the Association 
Get behind the secretary if you want the American As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen to be efficient. 
A RADIO ROSE TALK 
Tin; Conrad & Jones Company, West Grove, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, is certainly modern in its methods. A very charm¬ 
ingly gotten up folder in colors illustrating Itosa hugonis 
and others has just come to hand. 
The most interesting statement upon it, however, is 
notice of a radio talk on roses, to be broadcasted Satur¬ 
day. April 28th, at 9 P. M., from Station WJZ, Newark. 
New Jersey. The talk is to he made by Robert Pyle. 
To read such announcements makes one regret that 
they have not Ihe means to listen in. 
If. W. Fulmer, 21st street and Ealer avenue, Easton, 
Pennsylvania is starting a nursery near Point Pleasant, 
Pennsylvania; he is growing a line of fruit trees, shrubs 
and small fruits. 
