You Can*t Prune a Tree Without Tools! 
You Can’t Meet Today's Competitive Conditions Without Eliminating 
Your ,/ Drone // and // Boarder // Trees-—G reening Bud Selection 
Provides the Only Way! 
No poultry farm operator or hatchery owner would 
hatch chickens from eggs chosen at random. Parent¬ 
age is important. Selection is the basis of superiority. 
The successful dairy farm owner knows to a pound 
how much butter fat each cow produces, and the stock 
man, feeding beef cattle for market, selects only those 
animals he knows will make weight profitably. 
The same laws of heredity hold true in fruit tree 
propagation. Greening bud selection is the modern 
science that gives “pedigree” advantages to fruit tree 
selection. Greening Super-Selected Trees are the only 
fruit trees that give you these advantages. 
Fruit trees that can’t, with proper care, produce 
choice fruit in profitable volume are not worth the 
valuable land they occupy. Neither do they justify 
the time, labor and expense necessary in caring for 
them. Now is the time when labor and replant stock 
are still low in cost—to pull out the “drones” and 
“boarders” and prepare your orchard to make more 
money. 
When Charles E. Greening, then president of our 
company, discovered the principles of Greening Bud 
Selection 23 years ago, he discovered the priceless 
secret of improved and stabilized varieties and vastly 
increased orchard profits. 
At first, like all truly important scientific discov¬ 
eries, his discovery was treated with skepticism. Fruit 
growers erroneously be¬ 
lieved that the produc¬ 
tive ability of the tree 
was entirely in the root 
stock. Horticulturists 
and nurserymen mis¬ 
takenly said, “true to 
name” is all the assur¬ 
ance that is necessary 
as to a tree’s fruiting 
ability. 
Today we know that 
both of these ideas are 
wrong. After 23 long, 
tedious and costly 
years of experimenta¬ 
tion and research, we 
are witnessing the universal recognition and acceptance 
of this scientific principle as outlined by Mr. Greening. 
Scientific bud selection as originated by Greening, 
and still practiced exclusively by Greening, is the big¬ 
gest thing in present-day fruit-growing practice. 
The story of Greening Bud Selection is as profit¬ 
able as it is fascinating. As a grower, you should read 
it, study it, learn to understand its simple underlying 
principles. It will mean money in your pocket when 
you do. 
Howard D. Fashbaugh 
Vice President and Secretary 
Greening Bud Selection Means— 
No More of These 
But Lots of These 
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Periclinal Chimera—Wealthy and Giant Wealthy 
sectors in same apple 
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Solid Red McIntosh—photo supplied by Ralph Caryl, 
Asst. Pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept, 
of Agriculture, Riverside, Cal. 
