TREES, PROPERLY PLACED, ARE THE KEYS 
TO PERFECT LANDSCAPE SCHEMES 
T rees . . . valued as never before . . . glorified in song and story . . . trees 
that outlive the songsters and poets they have inspired , . . lift up the hearts 
of millions. 
The permanence of trees is the permanence of change . . . not the permanence 
of perishable stone. While trunk and limb may wither and fall, the life-root 
springs forth again in finer verdure, in more picturesque pattern, obeying the 
immutable law of evolution. 
NO GREENING UNDERTAKING WAITS 
ON THE INGENUITY OF OTHER MEN 
—THE GREENINGS KNOW 
Today we sense something newer and more significant in tree culture. We 
know more about preserving and enhancing the artistic and sentimental value 
of trees . . . making them the major masses in entrancing landscapes before 
which men and women pause in admiration. 
DISCOVERIES GIVE EXPERT KNOWLEDGE 
We have learned more about tree psychology, pathology, entomology, and 
along with these, more about soils and tree feeding. The long years of Greening 
skill, heritage of generations gone, have brought new discoveries that add to 
nature’s handiwork, expert nursing, training, pruning, transplanting. Tree mov¬ 
ing has become an art through Greening traditions. 
Greening knowledge and care account for the hundreds of thousands of 
trees . . . young and old . . . little and big . . . that grow and develop like 
healthy children, through biting winter and sultry summer on the 1500 acres 
of Greening land at Monroe. Trees that are waiting to march out into the 
world ... to grace a landscape or stretch their stately lines along some scenic 
thoroughfare. 
NOTABLE EXAMPLES OF GREENING 
ENTERPRISE IN BIG TREE MOVING 
At the right (next page) note the picturesque old 
English Elm, imported stock, that had grown 50 
years at Monroe before it was moved nearly 60 
miles and re-planted. It weighed 23 tons, was 24 
inches in diameter and over 30 feet high. 
At the upper left, a Scarlet Maple nearly 50 feet 
tall, moved to a Detroit estate. Note at the lower 
left, the enormous spread of roots and the special 
Greening method of lacing to preserve 
the roots intact. 
At the extreme upper right, next page, see a fine 
American Elm 18 inches in diameter that was moved 
while in full leaf. The trees in the background, also 
moved in leaf, had just been planted. 
Greening s offer only those splendid, new varieties of roses that have been proved. 
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