Bud Selection Provides Sure Control of Size, 
Shape, Color, Appearance, Quality! 
Roy E. Gibson (left) head of Greening research, with 
Brooks D. Drain, Massachusetts State College, inspecting 
an orchard 
Another undesirable trait is the appearance of two or more 
different fruits of the same variety on one tree. A single tree 
may bear both green Bartlett and yellow Bartlett pears. One tree 
may bear gray, blue and russet Baldwin apples. Many different 
combinations of color variations may be found—all detracting 
from the salability or desirability of the individual fruit. Proper 
segregation by Greening Bud Selection makes these odd and 
unprofitable conditions impossible. 
ODDITIES THAT CROP OUT WHERE 
NATURE ALONE GOVERNS GROWTH 
One of the most interesting examples of undesirable color 
variation in fruit is revealed in a 5-year apple orchard study 
cataloged by Greening observation. This case occurs in a block 
of McIntosh apple trees in the orchards of T. S. Smith, of Fenn- 
ville, Michigan. 
When Roy E. Gibson discovered the case in 1924, he found 
61 trees that produced striped fruit only, and 47 that yielded 
solid red blush fruit, with only an occasional striped or chimera 
apple. Striped limb “sports” were located and marked in 5 
trees, charted and kept under observation with the others. Over 
the five year period the variations repeated consistently each 
year. 
The important thing to remember about this is that all these 
McIntosh trees were “true to name.” They were sold, planted 
and brought to bearing as McIntosh trees and were, according 
to previously accepted nursery standards, McIntosh trees. But 
they did not produce uniformly superior McIntosh apples as they 
would have done if they had been grown from Greening Bud 
Selected stock. 
BUD SELECTION SEGREGATES, SEPARATES 
AND STABILIZES 
Characteristics of similar nature crop out in cherry trees. 
Greening records catalog an interesting case in the orchard of 
Ralph Raider, Shelby, Michigan. This example has to do with 
transitional trees—trees in which fruit characteristics are mixed. 
One tree in this orchard bore cherries with 36 widely different 
lengths of stems. The shorter were less than three-quarters of an 
inch. The longest were a full three inches. Th is orchard also 
bore cherries varying widely in their ripening time. When some 
were full and ripe, others were small and green—to ripen much 
later. This condition is the result of the propagation of chimera 
buds. 
Greening Bud Selection obviates any such condition in bear¬ 
ing—it segregates, separates and stabilizes the desirable charac¬ 
teristics—eliminates the defective, faulty and unprofitable fruit. 
STEPS TO CURB VIRUS DISEASES NECESSARY 
IN MANY LOCALITIES 
Fruit diseases have long been the bane of the orchardist. 
Ingrained in fruit trees, these unhealthy traits can no more be 
dealt with than a human deformity inherited from a defective 
father or mother. 
Greening Bud Selection forever closes the door to hereditary 
tree ailments. Such virus diseases as apple measles, red suture, 
phony peach, little peach, peach yellow—all are transmitted 
through the sap of the parent tree. The only preventive of these 
devastating and costly diseases is positive knowledge that the 
parent tree is free of disease. 
In certain localities in the United States scourges of apple 
measles are prevalent and steadily spreading, to the amazement 
and consternation of orchardists. Energetic efforts are being 
made by the United States Department of Agriculture, horticul¬ 
tural colleges, horticultural societies and organized science to 
segregate and eradicate the affected trees. Chopping them out 
is the only alternative. 
Apple measles can be distinguished by the spotted bark of 
the trees, the stunting of growth, the lowering of yield, and the 
small, poorly developed character of the fruit borne. 
Well informed orchardists are aware of these conditions and 
are combatting them vigorously. Many smaller, lesser informed 
growers do not fully appreciate this danger to their trees. 
Grening Bud Selection forever closes the door to inherited tree diseases. 
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