. Eastern fruit . OBLANDO IIAKRISOM almost as many summer visitors as I '*"*^ '^^^^^ influence to its country- Maine. Receives Cor manufactured ! wide development, even at great ex- goods $48,377,000 and for paper pulp and lumber $21,414,000. VERMONT. (Population 355,956.) I^nd area 9,135 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 39. Has (in Rutland) the largest marble centre in the world, with an invested capi- tal of $6,000,000. pense to themselves. No other Indus try has more possibilities of benefit; for people In general than fruit grow-1 Ing, and no big man has done more I for any
. Eastern fruit . OBLANDO IIAKRISOM almost as many summer visitors as I '*"*^ '^^^^^ influence to its country- Maine. Receives Cor manufactured ! wide development, even at great ex- goods $48,377,000 and for paper pulp and lumber $21,414,000. VERMONT. (Population 355,956.) I^nd area 9,135 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 39. Has (in Rutland) the largest marble centre in the world, with an invested capi- tal of $6,000,000. pense to themselves. No other Indus try has more possibilities of benefit; for people In general than fruit grow-1 Ing, and no big man has done more I for any line oi work cnan Orlando Harrison has done for this. Primarily, his business always has been the growing of young fruit trees, but he has looked beneath the surface of his work and has seen the hopes and plans and motives that are brought MASSACHUSETTS. (Population 3,366,416.) Land area 8,040 square miles. Pop-1 *n^o P^^y when men plant trees, ulatlon per square mile (2d), j Though a comparatively young man, Owns half the fishing vessels of the i the things Mr. Harrison has accom- United States, and does the world's ' pllshed amount to more than the biggest business in fresh and preserv-! whole lifework of ninety-nine men i ed flsh; •tandi seventh in population | cue of a hundred. Starting thirty i best examples of what fruit growing iu the East really is. in building up such an enormous fruit business, nu- merous farms became the property of the Harrisons. These have been im- proved, many are planted to orchards, and nearly all are sold in the course of a few months or years, to those who want homes. Growing and selling trees, planting orchards, or making good homes out of run-down farms, has romantic and human sides of more importance than the financial or material considera- tions involved. When a man comes to Mr. Harrison for trees, either by letter or in person, some of his hopes and plans are explained; and when the trees go to him, they are accompa- nied by much
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