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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
CUTTING STRINGS 
250,000 Elberta have been budded in this block. [The foreman of this farm stands in the foreground. Trees in'the back ground is a field of apples of 150 acres two year old 
In the same way grading and packing goes on more or less 
uninteruptedly in the mammoth packing house along side of 
which run the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railway. The dirt 
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. 
And what|isThe’secreUof the success of this comparatively 
youngkfirm? We can answer in a phrase by saying intelligent, 
persistent application to business, coupled 
with square dealing. The restless energy of 
the senior member of the firm, is duplicated in 
the office and business methods of Orlando 
Harrison, and the “ rustle \ of the field super¬ 
intendent, G. A. Harrison. This push and 
constant attention to the demands of the 
trade; the furnishing of good value and good 
stock; and more than all, interests not 
bounded by nursery work but as broad as 
horticulture, has been the secret of much of 
the success which has attended the efforts of 
this firm. Busy men they are, but not too 
much engaged to give of their time to 
municipal affairs, and when one calls 
on the business manager of Harrison’s 
Nurseries, he also pays his respects to the Mayor of Berlin, 
for the two are one. 
A BERRY FIELD 
Picking grass from strawberry beds before it saps the life of the plant. Annual plant about 60 acres each year. 
floor of the packing house is on the same level as the floor of the 
freight car, greatly facilitating loading and unloading. 
We were interested in learning that smudging is re¬ 
sorted to in the packing house during periods of ex¬ 
ceptionally cold weather to prevent the reduction of 
the temperature to the danger limit. 
This is a brief sketch of one of the aggressive and 
thriving firms of the middle south, that interesting sec¬ 
tion where, in the civil conflict, lines were drawn so 
closely, where deep conviction divided family ties and 
formed framework for the thousand touching incidents 
of that thrilling period. 
The Harrison establishment has now woven into its 
history an interesting relic of the past in the form of 
part of the roof and walls of the birthplace of Stephen 
Decatur, the famous Commodore of the early days of 
the United States Navy. 
THE BUSINESS MANAGER AT WORK 
The correspondence connected with a business of these dimensions is heavy. Mr. 
Harrison is ably assisted by an efficient secretary. 
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