Some Trees are 5 percent Efficient- 
Some 95 percent 
The Primary Purpose of Greening Bud Selection is to Give 
Maximum Productivity and Maximum Money-Making Ability 
Orchard trees vary in their inherited capacity to 
produce fruit. Few trees are barren, nor do we know 
that any are fully productive. Many are transitional 
—mixtures or combinations of different variations— 
some of which tend to greater fruitfulness, and others 
less. Trees propagated in accordance with old-fash¬ 
ioned nursery practices represented innumerable com¬ 
binations of these two groups of modifying factors, 
depending upon the relative amount of each charac¬ 
teristic in the chimera (see bottom of page) propa¬ 
gating bud. 
The ability to produce fruit in profitable volume 
is the first requisite in any fruit tree. High production 
is the thing we seek first in propagating Greening 
Super Selected Trees. Greening Super Selected Trees 
are profitable because they contain those inherent 
characteristics which enable them to set and mature 
unusually large crops of large, smooth, uniformly 
shaped and uniformly colored fruit. 
It Takes Years to Find Out if You Have Planted a ^Mistake / 7 
Guard Against it with Greening Super-Selected Quality 
What’s true in the proper selection of poultry stock 
and other livestock is doubly true in fruit trees, with 
this important distinction: If the poultry or livestock 
man makes a mistake in the selection of stock, he finds 
it out before he has invested much time or money. But 
the fruit grower in many cases must wait years to see 
whether or not he has planted a “mistake.” There is 
only one way to make absolutely sure that you do not, 
and that is to standardize on Greening Super-Selected 
Fruit Trees. Each tree is a “Tree You Can Trust.” 
Each tree is a direct descendent of a parent tree whose 
characteristics have been studied and checked for 
years. 
When you plant Greening Super-Selected Fruit 
Trees, you are putting your time and money into a 
sound orchard investment. Greening Bud Selection is 
the scientific bombshell that blasted, once and for all, 
old-fashioned propagating methods. 
From the Imperfect Comes the Perfect 
The word “chimera” comes from Greek mythology 
meaning “three beasts living in a single body.” A 
chimera in a fruit sense is an apple a portion of which 
is large and a portion of which is small—or a portion 
of which is solid in color and a portion of which is 
striped. 
Chimeras are mixtures — undesirable mixtures -— 
imperfect fruit — less salable — less profitable to the 
fruit grower. Greening scientists study chimeras as a 
doctor studies his laboratory findings. Through this 
study we segregate and separate the undesirable qual¬ 
ities and characteristics. We eliminate the undesirable 
—we stabilize perfection. We give you fruit trees each 
variety of which always produces “true to form.” 
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A Sectorial Color Chimera 
