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This No. 1 Jonathan Apple Tree, Parent for ‘‘Bud-Selected’’ 
Strain, Produces the Largest Jonathan Apples Known and 
Nearly Three Times the Crop of Any Other Tree in the 
Orchard of Robert Anderson, Covert, Michigan 
Thousands of Trees 
Under Observation 
Years of ceaseless testing and recording goes on before 
“Bud Selection’’ becomes commercially practical. This en- 
tails intensive study and research of thousands of trees, of 
branches, and even of tiny twigs, for the selection of the 
buds which appear to have the desired performance charac- 
teristics—buds from that tiny living cell which are the source 
of the true and consistent growth and bearing performance 
we are seeking. 
The search goes ever on for every year through hundreds 
of orchards. The Director of Greening Research “‘carries on.”’ 
It is the duty of our Research Department to select from 
trees, buds for the propagation of “Greening Bud Selected”’ 
fruit trees. When in search, they find a tree, sport, branch 
or limb on which fruit of evident perfection grows, careful 
records start. 
Each tree or branch is given a number, painted on the 
trunk. A continuous record is kept for years before propagat- 
ing buds are taken. This complete record is kept on file in 
the Greening Record Library, a record available for inspec- 
tion in our offices. 
“BUD SELECTION” Segregates, Separates and Stabilizes 
Orchard Production -- Controls Size, Shape, Color and Quality 
Every line of effort in connection with ‘Greening Bud 
Selection” has been directed toward one all-important and 
all-inclusive purpose, and that is, to make scientific ‘‘Bud 
Selection” commercially profitable to the grower. 
BIGGER CROPS 
The most prolific tree in your orchard costs no more in 
time, care and materials than the poorest mongrel. 
Greening’s Registered Pedigreed trees produce the maxi- 
mum crop under any given set of soil and climatic conditions. 
They do it regularly and consistently, because that profitable 
fruiting ability is bred into them by scientific ‘‘Bud 
Selection.”’ 
BETTER COLOR 
Color and general appearance is an important factor in 
profitable fruit. Improved color is an important objective 
in orchard improvement that ‘*Greening’s Bud Selection’’ 
gives to you. 
EARLIER BEARING 
Time is money—in the fruit growing business, more so 
than in practically any other business you can name. 
When you plant a mistake, it takes years to find it out. 
Trees that lag in development—that make their growth 
slowly—that reach their bearing age late—are expensive 
trees at any price. 


Greening Registered Pedigreed Fruit Trees bear earlier 
than ordinary fruit trees. 
UNIFORM RIPENING 
Every irregularity, in blossoming and ripening complicates 
spraying, picking and marketing activities. A week or ten 
days variation in time can materially affect the stability 
and profit margin on your crop. 
Greening’s Registered Pedigreed Trees are the highest 
development in uniform and consistent performance. 

The Curb of Virus Diseases 
Fruit tree diseases have long been the bane of the orchard- 
ist. Ingrained in fruit trees, these unhealthy traits can no 
more be dealt with than a human physical defect inherited 
from a parent. 
“Greening Bud Selection” forever closes the door to heredi- 
tary tree diseases. 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 posi- 
tive knowledge that the parent tree is free of disease. 
v7 MORE OF THESE————and—_—__LESS OF THESE” ~~ 
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The photo at the right shows 
a chimera (pronounced Ki- 
Mé-R&z) which in an Apple is 
a portion that is large and a 
portion that is small—or a por- 
tion which is solid in color and 
a portion striped. 
Chimeras are mixtures—unde- 
sirable mixtures — imperfect 
fruit—less salable—less profit- 
able to the fruit grower. Green- 
ing scientists study chimeras 
as a doctor studies his labor- 
atory findings. Through this 
study we segregate and sepa- 
rate the undesirable qualities 
and characteristics. We elimi- 
nate the undesirable—we sta- 
bilize perfection. We give you 
fruit trees, each variety of 
which produces “‘true to form,” 
thus more profitable fruit. 
At right is a Wealthy and 
Giant Wealthy mixed. At left 
is the perfect, firm, profitable 
| Apple, a solid Red McIntosh 
of clear “‘bud selected’’ quality. ‘ 

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