BUD SELECTION 
oAn Exclusive Greening Development 
A Scientific Speeding-up of Nature’s Siow Process of Evoiution with the 
Advantages of Definite Controi over Heredity in Piant Breeding! 
M ore than d quarter of a century ago the Greenings 
began the practical application of the Bud Selec¬ 
tion theory, with the definite objective of producing 
better, more dependable fruit yields, that the fruit 
grower might produce greater crops of better quality 
and thereby make greater profits. 
This method of stimulating and speeding up nature’s 
processes followed upon the heels of more than 60 
years of Greening experience. And it had as its most 
valuable asset for improvement, many generations of fruit 
trees, propagated according to the best traditions of 
plant breeding as practiced before Bud Selection was 
developed. 
FRUIT GROWING REVOLUTIONIZED 
BY GREENING BUD SELECTION 
Bud Selection on this basis and with this background has 
literally revolutionized fruit growing. It has enhanced quality, 
promoted greater abundance, stabilized consistency in quality, 
uniformity of shape, size, color, and peri od of yield, as well as 
improved every other characteristic sought by scientific fruit 
growers. 
But these improvements were not obtained by allowing hit- 
and-miss heredity to take its natural course. Not by the mere 
budding or grafting of buds or scions from random selection of 
parent trees. Greenings went deeper and farther than this. 
GREENINGS PIONEERS IN STUDY AND 
CONTROL OF TWIG GROWTH 
Greening’s Bud Selection is a scientific method of controlling 
fruit propagation by selecting from twig growths only those buds 
and scions that have a consistent record for desirable character¬ 
istics, and grafting or budding them to healthy, sturdy stock of 
proved quality. 
Only in this way—only on the basis of authoritative breeding 
history, harking back many generations, can true Bud Selection 
CUSTOMER FOR 40 YEARS 
The Greening Nursery Co., 
Monroe, Michigan 
A few years ago, I bought Cook Strain Northern Spy Apple Trees. 
These trees are now in bearing, and if they continue to bear apples 
of the size and color they have so far, if the price was Ten Dollars 
per tree, instead of the Ten Cents extra the salesman charged me, I 
would still be money ahead. I have been buying Fruit Trees from you 
for over forty years and the stock I have received has always been 
very satisfactory. Very truly yours, 
Henry Kraft, Sparta, Mich. 
Trees are marked by numbers, and records of their perform¬ 
ance kept for years before propagating buds are taken. 
Note marking of branches 
be practiced. It is the only way to avoid planting a mistake and 
waiting years to find out that the planting was a mistake. Selection 
based on twig growth was a new and revolutionary theory. But 
buds and fruits, after all, are only extensions of twig growth, 
just as the hair on our heads and the nails on our fingers are 
extensions of skin growth. 
SECRET OF FRUIT YIELD LIES IN 
CELL GROWTH UNDER THE BARK 
Buds partake of the same cell characteristics as the branch on 
which they grow. A branch, for instance, whose genetic factor 
produces solid red apples will produce solid red apples con¬ 
sistently, while a branch whose cell factors are mixed, will 
produce mixed colored apples consistently, and may develop 
other strange or freakish variations. 
The basic method of operation of Greening Bud Selection is 
to locate, segregate and separate only such buds and scions as 
are desirable, unmixed as to color, size, uniformity of shape and 
early productive ability, and to then propagate trees only from 
such buds and scions as have the essential qualities desired. 
An example of plant reproduction by selection—one that 
fittingly illustrates the practical operation of the Bud Selection 
theory, is the familiar, so-called Irish Potato. 
Greening’s experiments are carried on at Graham Experiment Station, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
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