The Endless Search for Superior Tree Specimens 
Extends World-Wide! 
HUNDREDS OF ORCHARDS COMBED TO 
FIND RECORD BEARING FRUIT TREES 
Just how intensive the search for ancestors of noble character¬ 
istics has proved to be is demonstrated by the lengths to which 
investigation has gone. 
Endlessly^ year after year, far and wide, among hundreds of 
orchards, there travels one notable member of the Greening 
organization, searching, inquiring, examining, studying—and 
cataloging facts. 
This man is Roy E. Gibson, Bud Selection expert and head of 
Greening research activities, fdis work was started under the 
direction of the late Charles E. Greening and has consistently 
progressed through many years. The scope of this man’s activities^ 
his untiring, nation-wide search, his deep comparative study, 
have culminated in a wealth of experience not to be duplicated 
elsewhere throughout the entire range of the nursery and orchard 
industries. 
Montmorency Cher¬ 
ries with normal 
lensth stems of 
inch to 1inches 
Montmorency Cher¬ 
ries with intermediate 
stems measuring 
nearly 2 inches 
Montmorency Cher¬ 
ries with stems as 
long as 3 inches. All 
3 groups from one 
tree 
It is Mr. Gibson’s duty to select from trees with the highest 
performance records, year after year, those parent trees from 
which buds are taken for the propagation of Greening Super 
Selected Fruit Trees. Only those trees that have produced fruit 
of superior quality, size, color, shape and uniformity—and in 
highly profitable volume—are selected. 
State horticultural colleges and experiment stations, the 
United States Department of Agriculture, leading pomologists, 
horticultural societies, and fruit growers everywhere, are giving 
Greening their wholehearted cooperation. 
These intensive methods assure that in the cell structure of 
every Bud Selected tree are ingrained those characteristics that 
determine the difference between success and failure in fruit 
growing. 
“MILLION DOLLAR LIBRARY” HOLDS 
GREENING BUD SELECTION SECRET 
Transitional twig with two kinds of cherries, Montmorency, 
and late Ripening Montmorency, demonstrating mixed 
characteristics 
TO MATCH GREENING EXPERIENCE 
WOULD TAKE FULLY A GENERATION 
The activities carried on by this man, together with the com¬ 
bined experience and study by the other members of the extensive 
Greening organization, have built up an incomparable back¬ 
ground, one that could not possibly be matched for many years 
to come, if ever. That is why the Greening Nurseries can say 
positively and prove with complete facts, that there is only one 
exponent of true Bud Selection on a commercially practical scale 
in the entire world—Greening’s. These facts stamp Greening Bud 
Selection with the seal of absolute and exclusive authority in 
fruit tree culture. 
Greening’s installed an educational horticultural exhibit at Purdue U 
All the world applauds an accomplishment that can stand as the 
only thing of its kind, or the only thing of its magnitude, in the 
world. Well, Greening’s have a notable possession that qualifies 
under this distinction. They call it their '"Million Dollar Library. 
Fact is, it is not intrinsically a million dollar possession, or one 
measured by any definite sum of money. It is inde ed PRICELESS ! 
It is the secret of Greening Bud Selection—the exclusive key 
that unlocks the vast store of Greening’s accumulated experience. 
No one else has it or can have it. It goes far back into the years. 
Greening Nursery Co. 
Monroe, Michigan 
The trees we purchased of you three years ago this spring, are the 
finest we ever saw for the age. Some of the Winter Banana bore 
apples last year. 
E. S. Thomas & Son, Dundee, Ind. 
iversity. 
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