The 5 Points of the Greening 
Bud Selection Star 
What We Seek and GET for Your Benefit and Profit 
Greater Production 
Elimination of Virus 
Diseases 
Improved Commercial Varieties 
Perfection and Stabilization of Desirable Strains 
A Great Step Forward in Fruit Tree Propagation! 
Greening Bud Selection is the scientific principle 
of fruit tree propagation, practiced exclusively by 
Greening for the purpose of making more money for 
the fruit grower. 
Botany teaches us that buds and fruits are but 
the extensions of the twig growth, just as our hair and 
finger nails are outgrowths of the skin. The old-fash¬ 
ioned theory that all the buds from a tree of certain 
variety are identical is disproved by literally thousands 
of instances such as we see in the McIntosh orchard 
described on page 12. 
Buds partake of the same cell characteristics as 
the branch on which they grow. A branch whose gen¬ 
etic factor produces solid red apples will produce solid 
red apples consistently, while a branch whose cell fac¬ 
tors are mixed will produce mixed colored apples 
consistently. 
The basic purpose of Greening Bud Selection is to 
locate, segregate and separate buds and scions of de¬ 
sirable and unmixed variety as to color, size, uniform 
shape, and early and consistent productive ability— 
and to propagate trees only from those buds and scions 
that have these essential qualities. 
Undesirable characteristics that heretofore have 
been explained with some such remark as “those things 
just happen” are quickly understood once the scien¬ 
tific principles of Greening Bud Selection are under¬ 
stood. When they are understood, they can be 
eliminated, and are being eliminated constantly, in 
propagating Greening Super Selected Fruit Trees. 
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