For the Finest Grades of the Best Cherries 
Plant Greening’s BUD SELECTED Trees 
From the hundreds of varieties of cherries 
grown and sold in the United States we 
have carefully selected the best—and fur¬ 
ther improved them through Bud Selection/ 
to retain every good feature and assure 
heavy crops. Cherries ask no favors in 
location or handling, provide crop diversi¬ 
fication, bear almost annually and keep 
profits flowing your way. 
Sour Cherries 
EARLY RICHMOND (Kiester) —Medium size,- 
dark red, melting, juicy, sprightly acid flavor. 
This is one of the most valuable and popular of 
the sour cherries. It is unsurpassed for cooking 
purposes. Tree a good grower with roundish, 
spreading head, and is extremely productive. 
The most hardy of all varieties, uninjured by the 
coldest winters. Ripens through June. 
ENGLISH MORELLO (Tucker)— Medium to 
large, blackish red, rich, acid, juicy and good; 
very productive; tree a moderate grower. 
August, 
MAY DUKE (Scherer)— Large, red, juicy and 
rich; an old, excellent variety; vigorous and 
productive. Middle of June. 
MONTMORENCY (Fernwood) —The Montmor¬ 
ency cherry variety is transitional. Variations 
are found in every one of its important charac¬ 
teristics including type and growth of trees, 
twigs and leaves, length of stems, production, 
time of ripening and size as well as shape and 
color of fruits. Through bud selection we are 
able to bring out the best in the variety. 
Greening’s Super-Selected Montmorency Fern- 
wood Strain is the leading commercial sour 
cherry and it has proved its value in the many 
orchards in which it is now in production. 
Leading growers everywhere are demanding 
our Fernwood Strain Montmorency. The trees 
are vigorous and strong growing, making a 
large tree quickly, thus coming into profitable 
production at an early age. The trees are more 
uniform in shape and size, produce more fruit, 
which is more uniform in ripening and from 
15 to 20% larger in size than fruit from check 
trees of ordinary Montmorency which were 
produced by the old propagation methods. 
Season end of June. 
MONTMORENCY (Rouse) —This is our largest 
Montmorency cherry, producing sour cherries 
of exceptional size. Trees are spreading and 
comparatively slow growing when young but 
make a large healthy tree when mature. Season, 
end of June. 
RICHMORENCY (Stickney) —This is an early 
ripening Montmorency. It is a true Montmorency 
type only that the fruit ripens a week or more 
earlier than the standard Montmorency. It ripens 
at approximately the same time as the Early 
Richmond. The parent tree is low spreading in 
growth, produces heavy crops, and the size of 
the fruit is large. The fact that this strain ripens 
early is a decided advantage as thousands of 
Montmorency cherry trees are mixed with late- 
ripening factors causing cherries in otherwise 
normal trees to be green at picking time. 
Sweet Cherries 
Sweet cherry trees supplied the public by 
many nurseries have not been true to name. We 
established this fact by checking orchards in the 
sweet cherry belt of Northern Michigan, and 
consulted experienced growers, who cooperated 
with us in making our selections. The only variation 
in sweet cherries of commercial importance, is un¬ 
productive strains. We selected buds from parent 
trees producing heavy crops. In the variety 
descriptions to follow, the name in parenthesis, 
immediately following the variety name, is the 
name of the orchard in which the parent tree is 
located, from which propagating buds were taken 
for the production of these trees. 
GOV, WOOD (Rider) —Very large, rich, light 
yellow with red cheek. Juicy and sweet. One 
of the best. Last of June. 
NAPOLEON (Manistee) — Very large, pale 
yellow with bright red cheek, very firm, juicy 
and sweet. Vigorous grower and very produc¬ 
tive. One of the best. First of July. 
PAUL ROSE (A White Schmidt’s Bigarreau)— 
Originated from a sport limb in the orchard of 
the late Paul Rose, the pioneer sweet cherry 
grower of Michigan. It is a white cherry and 
of large size, tender, juicy, with a fine rich 
flavor, ripening in July. Doctor V. R. Gardner 
of the Michigan State College considers it of 
great commercial value. 
SCHMIDT’S BIGARREAU (Rogers)— Remark¬ 
ably hardy and productive. Fruit grows in 
clusters and is of the largest size. Skin deep 
black, flesh dark, tender, juicy, with a fine, rich 
flavor. Stone small. July. 
TARTARIAN (Black Tartarian) (Lewis) —Very 
large, bright purplish black, juicy, very rich, 
excellent flavor. Tree a vigorous grower and 
productive. Last of June or early July. 
WINDSOR (Crystal Lake) —New seedling ori¬ 
ginated at Windsor, Canada. Fruit large and 
liver colored, quite distinctive; flesh remarkably 
firm and of fine quality. Tree hardy and very 
prolific. The most valuable late variety for market 
or family use. July. 
YELLOW SPANISH (Rose) —Fruit very large, 
heart-shaped. Color pale, waxen yellow with 
handsome light red cheek to sun. Flesh firm with 
fine rich flavor. Season medium. A very pop¬ 
ular variety. 
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Number of Cherry Trees Required Per Acre 
Distance Number 
Apart Per Acre 
30 X 30 ft. (Sweet Cherries) 48 
20 X 20 ft. (Sour Cherries) 108 
Montmorency 
BING (Rogers) —One of the best 
black cherries in existence. It is 
large, firm and delicious and a 
good shipper. Tree hardy and 
upright grower. Middle of June. 
In the description of varieties, 
the name in parentheses immedi¬ 
ately following the variety name, 
in each case indicates the strain 
and is the name of the orchard, in 
which the parent tree is located, 
from which propagating buds were 
taken. 
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Now is the time to plant. Fruits are growing in demand; prices promise to rise. 
