GREEN’S NURSERY COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Photograph of one corner of a field of two-year apple trees at 
Green’s Nursery and Fruit Farm. By looking over these trees you 
can tell where one variety ends and another begins by the different 
character of the foliage and growth, but to be certain we attach a 
tag or stake as shown in the illustration. 
the attraction to any home of a few grape vines climbing 
over the porches or decorating the arbor running through the 
garden. 
TIIE OLD ORCHARD—There was a time not many 
years ago when the farm orchard, often embracing not more 
than one acre, was the sole supplier of apples to consumers in 
this country. In the early days all the farmers had to do was 
to set out the trees and guard them against being broken 
down by cattle. 
TIIE HOME FRUIT GARDEN—All judicious tree 
planting is profitable, but the most profitable planting is that 
for the home garden for the home supply of fresh picked fruit. 
Why. not avail yourself of our forty years’ experience in 
growing, packing and shipping plants, vines and trees? We 
deal direct with the planter, thus saving one-half the expense 
of buying through tree agents. Half the nurserymen have 
no nurseries. We have five nursery farms and grow trees, 
etc., by the million. We are orchardists growing one hundred 
varieties of apples and numerous other fruits. Every order 
is backed by forty years’ experience in growing, packing and 
shipping. Just a line will bring you our new illustrated 
catalog and a lot of valuable information. 
A FAMINE IN TREES — During past years, trees, plants 
and vines have been sold often below cost. The prices have 
been so low that many nurserymen have become impoverished 
and have been obliged to abandon their business as unprofita¬ 
ble. Now with the advent of war and high prices for stocks, 
for labor and for rope, twine, lumber and other outgoes, the 
fact is plainly visible that a famine is coming in trees and 
other nursery products. 
American nurserymen secure their seedling stocks from 
France and other parts of Europe. These supplies are no 
longer dependable. Here is another important affair that 
must inevitably lead to a famine in nursery trees and other 
stock. 
Now is the time to buy before prices increase. History 
tells us that after the close of the Civil War in 1865 fruit 
trees advanced in price to $1.00 each and other stock in 
proportion. 
TIIE GRAPE—I give two reasons w r hy you should plant 
the grape and continue to plant it. In the first place grapes 
are good to eat. In the second place the vines are exceedingly 
decorative when trained up the sides of the house or the 
porches or against outbuildings, where they can be made to 
hide disagreeable views. Great interest has been attracted 
to grape growing by the making of unfermented grape juice, 
which is now a commercial product offered in almost every 
delicatessen, the department store or grocery, over this broad 
land. To drink a glass of this grape juice is almost like eating 
a cluster of fresh grapes. 
Why do I remember so vividly the grape vine that had 
grown upon my father’s farm fifty years before my birth 
and W'hich continued to bear its burden of fruit during my 
stay upon the farm and for many years after? I recall it on 
account of its great beauty and as regards the attractiveness 
of its fruit and of its great excellence. The grape is the longest 
lived of all fruits, so far as I know. The vine which you pur¬ 
chased for fifteen cents wall not only beautify your home 
grounds, trailing over the clapboards of your dwelling or 
outhouse, but wall supply you with a healthful delicacy. 
There are grape vines in existence W'hich claim to be nearly'a 
thousand years old, so large that the body looks more like 
the trunk of a tree than a vine. Some of these old vines have 
yielded tons of fruit each season under favorable climatic 
conditions. Who can pass a grape vine in October wath the 
red, wdiite or purple clusters in sight without a strong inclina¬ 
tion to linger and to pluck a few of the clusters? How great 
Improve Your Home Life by Planting Trees. 
BIRTH OF THE MAIL ORDER NURSERY 
Nearly 40 years ago C. A. Green established the first large 
nursery mail order business. This new idea occurred to us 
through learning the excessive cost of selling trees through 
nursery agents. The method of selling trees by catalog, 
through orders sent by mail, has saved the country millions 
of dollars, and has enabled many people to buy plants, vines 
and trees, who otherwise W'ould not have been able to do so. 
For index of this catalog, see the last pages of catalog. 
Green’s Trees are Grown Where They Grow Best. 
They are Northern Grown, Hardy Trees. 
STATE OF NEW YORK 
DEPARTMENT OF FARMS AND MARKETS 
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE 
Certificate of Inspection of Nursery Stock 
Eljia ia lo (Errttfy That the nursery stock of Green’s 
Nursery Company of Rochester, County of Monroe, 
State of New York, was duly examined in compliance 
with the provisions of Section 305 of the Agricultural 
Law% and w r as found to be apparently free from any 
contagious or infectious disease or diseases, or the San 
Jose scale or other dangerously injurious insect pest or 
pests. This certificate expires September 1, 1919. 
CHARLES S. WILSON, 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
Dated, Albany, N. Y., September 11, 1918. 
NO DISEASED TREES ; v 1 
Our nurseries are inspected annually by the State Eritb--, 
mologist. A certificate of said inspector is attached to even,' : 
package that leaves our establishment. 
