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THE GREENING NURSERY COMPANY 


Traditions of Quality and Value 

Handed daumn from Gather to Sou Guide the Policies of Greenings 

J. Cc. W. GREENING 
1828-1908 
CHAS. E. GREENING 
1858-1928 
1882-1941 
Greenings Pioneered One of the Few Great 
Plant Breeding Developments 
HE GREENINGS have been thorough 
workmen, deep students of the secrets of 
Nature. No task was too great, no time too 
long to discourage the Greening thirst for 
improvement in methods of propagation, de- 
velopment of superior varieties of fruits and 
improvement of old. The outcome has been 
the reward of the succeeding generation, if 
not the originator of the experiments 
launched. The experiments that succeeded 
have been developed under close observation 
on Greening soil. 
Through these years of effort Greenings 
have enjoyed full cooperation of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, agricul- 
tural colleges, orchardists, recognized experi- 
ment stations and individual horticulturists 
working more or less in the interests of pure 
science. 
The Greenings worked always toward prac- 
tical improvement in fruits, flowers, shrubs 
and trees. applying their findings in a prac- 
tical way, generation after generation, on a 
large scale, giving the average grower some- 
thing he could immediately use in every day 
practice, to his benefit and profit, giving him 
truly—‘“‘Proven Plants That Produce.’’ 
Nearly a third of a century ago the Green- 
ings pioneered an undertaking that has 
proved so successful it has utterly revolution- 
ized fruit growing and spread its beneficial 
influences into other branches of horticulture. 

That experiment was ‘‘Bud Selection’’ a 
subject to which the first two pages are de- 
voted in an explanation of the method and a 
clear statement of facts that should be a 
revelation to all who have not gone into the 
subject in a scientific way. 
We are proud to have been the pioneers to 
have blazed the trail to new methods of better 
fruit production. It has been long and costly 
but is rewarded in the fact that we have re- 
moved the greatest element of chance and un- 
certainty for the commercial fruit grower. 
as, 
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, the late Benjamin J. 
Greening, and her great grand- 
son, Charles B. Greening. 
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, the late 
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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BENJAMIN J. GREENING 
CHAS. B. GREENING 
Director 

HOWARD D. FASHBAUGH 
President and Treasurer 


