
CHAS. E. GREENING 
1828-1908 1858-1928 
J. Cc. W. GREENING 
BENJAMIN J. GREENING CHAS. B. GREENING 
President Vice-President 
“Born 1850—Still Growing” 
A Creed ts Which the Pile Span of Gour Generations 1s Dedicated 
90 YEARS OF SPECIALIZED 
EXPERIENCE 
The growth of GreenNING NuRSERIES 1s One 
of the great family-business romances that you 
rarely find in this country. Well over half the 
age of the country itself, GREENING NURSERIES 
is a fine illustration of the rewards that this 
nation can give in return for plain living, hard 
work, common-sense management and fair 
dealing. As America has grown, so has GREEN- 
inc NurseERIEs grown, until today GREENING 
Nurseries stand in the front rank, recognized 
as a world leader ! 
Nearly a century ago, John C. W. Greening 
came to the United States and settled on one 
acre of rented ground in Monroe, Michigan. 
There he set out his first few trees. With him 
from the old world he brought something worth 
far more than worldly goods; he brought hard- 
learned secrets of growing things and the ambi- 
tion to work hard and establish himself in a 
new land. 
THE SONS SUCCEED 
THE FATHERS 
Gradually he developed and expanded his 
little nursery, it grew as his family grew. And 
in handing over his task to his son, Charles E. 
Greening, he also handed over a lifetime of ex- 
perience and thorough training in his responsi- 
bilities. And so, from generation to generation 
this creed has been handed down: ‘“‘Work hard, 
but work well . and remember, your re- 
sponsibility to those with whom you work 
and deal.” 
Today, the two succeeding generations of the 
family, Benjamin J. Greening, president, and 
Charles B. Greening, vice-president, respec- 
tively grandson and great grandson of the 
founder, actively operate GREENING NursER- 
Ibs, clinging to the simple objectives of the 
founder. Under their managementis a flourishing 
“green empire” growing plants in infinite variety 
—hundreds of fertile acres, breeding and pro- 
ducing nursery stock of unsurpassed quality. 

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At the left is a photo taken 
in 1915 in the Old Greening 
Orchard John C. W. Greening 
planted the day he voted for 
Abraham Lincoln for president 
in November 1860. Left to 
right—the late Mrs. John C. 
W Greening; her son, the late 
Charles E. Greening; her | 
grandson, Benjamin J. Green- 
ing, now president of Greening 
Nurseries, and her great grand- 
son, Charles B. Greening, now 
vice-president of Greening 
Nurseries. 
At the right—Photo taken in 
same orchard 25 years later. 
Again you see four generations. 
Left to right—Mrs. Charles 
E. Greening, her son Benjamin 
J. Greening, and her grandson, 
Charles B. Greening (the little 
boy seen in the other photo) 
and her great-grandson 
Charles B. Greening, Jr. 
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