Greening Study of Plant Development 
Brings Practical, Profitable Results 
The Accumulated Experience of Yea rs 
Thus the products of Greening’s incorporate the accumulated 
experience and secrets of craftsmanship spanning nearly a 
hundred years. 
The Greenings have been thorough workmen, deep students 
of the secrets of nature. No task was too great; no time too long 
to discourage the Greening thirst for improvement in methods, 
varieties, ultimate fruits. The outcome has been the reward of 
the succeeding generation, if not the originator of the experi¬ 
ments launched. The experiments that succeeded, developed 
under close observation on Greening soil. And then these men 
knew definitely what they had wrought. 
Through these years of effort they enjoyed full cooperation 
of the United States Department of Agriculture, agricultural 
colleges, orchardists, recognized experiment stations, and indi¬ 
vidual horticulturists working more or less in the interests of 
pure science. 
The Greenings worked always toward practical improvement 
in standard varieties, applying their findings in a practical way, 
generation after generation, on a large scale, in thousands of 
communities, giving the average grower something he could 
immediately use in everyday practice, to his benefit or profit. 
Howard D. Fashbaush, vice- 
president and secretary, is a 
practical nurseryman of 
wide experience. 
^^Bud Selection^^ Pioneered 
More than a quarter of a century ago, the Greenings pioneered 
an undertaking that proved so successful it has utterly revolution¬ 
ized fruit growing and spread its beneficial influences into other 
branches of horticulture. 
That experiment was BUD SELECTION, a subject to which 
the following chapter is devoted, in an explanation of the 
theory, an exposition of th e method and a clear statement o 
facts that should be a reveleation to all who have not gone into 
the subject in a scientific way. 
The Old Greenins Homestead (below) 
in 1883, when the late Charles E. Green¬ 
ing (left) and his brother, George Green¬ 
ing, shouldered the responsibilities of 
their father, the founder. This old-fash¬ 
ioned house, the one-horse wagon, walk¬ 
ing plow, cultivator, spade, shovel, and 
the hoe have long since surrendered to 
modern progress, but the ideals and tra¬ 
ditions of the elder Greenings survive. 
On page 5, read about the amazing lifetime work of Roy E. Gibson. 
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