PLUMS, APRICOTS, QUINCES 

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JAPANESE PLUMS 
Abundance (Billing). 
as a pollenizer for Burbank. 
spread with a thick bloom. 
melting and of a delicious sweetness. 
This variety is especially valuable 
Medium to large in size. 
Oblong, amber, nearly covered with bright red and over- 
Flesh orange yellow, juicy, 
Small, Freestone. 
Tree is a strong grower and an early and profuse bearer. 
Valuable for canning and market. August. 
nese varieties. 
Number of Plum trees required per acre 
20x20 ft. apart—108 per acre 





ORANGE 
The Best 
of All 
Quinces 
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APRICOTS 
As in other fruits, Greening’s “Bud Selec- 
tion’ has produced Apricots of unusual 
merit. Hardy, vigorous, productive trees 
—bearing fruit with characteristics which 
mean profit to growers. Three of the best 
varieties are offered. Apricots are like 
Peaches in cultural requirements and prefer 
high, light soil. 
Alexander. An immense bearer. Fruit 
orange-yellow, oblong flecked with red; 
sweet, juicy, very beautiful. Season July. 
Lamale. A new Apricot originated in Mon- 
roe County. Exceptionally large and 
juicy with firm skin and golden yellow 
flesh. Freestone. A good bearer—attrac- 
tive appearance. Usually blooms suff- 
ciently late to miss frosts. Ripens about 
one week later than Montgamet. Rather 
late in season. Excellent commercial 
variety. Good shipper. 
Montgamet. One of the best varieties for 
canning and preserving. Fruit averages 
small in size but excellent quality. Color 
deep yellow. Flesh firm, rather tart flavor 
and reddish color. Freestone. Ripens 
early in season. 

ABOUT POLLINATION OF PLUMS 
AND PLANTING 
Plums should be planted in richer and 
heavier types of soils that are well drained. 
The usual planting distance is 20 feet, al- 
though they may be planted 25 feet apart 
in very fertile soils. The Japanese varieties 
of Plums are self sterile; thus two varieties 
of Japanese Plums must be planted to- 
gether to insure satisfactory cropping. 
Some varieties of American and European 
Plums are inclined to be self sterile and 
commercial plantings should contain at 
least two varieties of these species. 


QUINCES 
While not planted extensively Quinces 
should be included in every orchard, 
large and small. The trees are perma- 
nently productive and profitable, bear 
for 40 years and more. The fruit han- 
dles easily in shipping—stores well. 
For canning by scores of recipes, pre- 
serving and jelly making, the Quince 
stands alone in merit. Greenings offer 
you below, the outstanding variety of 
this fruit—a ‘‘bud selected’ strain 
which is completely dependable. 
Orange. Large, roundish, bright gold- 
en yellow; cooks tender and is of 
very excellent flavor. Valuable for 
preserves or flavoring; very produc- 
tive. The most popular and exten- 
sively cultivated of the 
old varieties. October. 

Whole Root Tree 
Digger 
Designed and Built in Our Shop 
Tree digging revolutionized! This 
machine has cut the cost of the old- 
fashioned horse method at the ratio 
of 15 to 1. There are two separate 
70 horsepower engines coupled to- 
gether and synchronized as to speed 
and power. It is an ugly looking de- 
vice, but runs as smooth as silk. 
Four years of continual experimental 
work in our Mechanical Research 
shops brought about this truly mar- 
velous labor saving piece of machin- 
ery to unfailing success. Note that 
the operator is right down where he 
can see his work, thus assuring a 
balanced root system and uninjured 
trees. No long strings of horses 
which are ordinarily used in the old- 
fashioned way of tree digging which 
skinned and trampled trees. Note 
the extremely high clearance which 
eliminates the extreme bending of 
the trunk of the tree which is apt to 
injure the cambium layer by stretch- 
ing the bark. Truly the most ad- 
vanced fruit tree digger ever con- 
ceived. 

—Shade for You and Fruit for Your Table 
24x24 ft. apart—75 per acre 
THE GREENING NURSERY COMPANY 
Burbank (Luplow). One of the best of the celebrated Japa- 
Remarkably successful and all over the 
country. Perfectly hardy. Succeeds in any soil. Abundant 
yearly bearer. Fruit large, roundish, dark red or purplish 
with thin lilac bloom; flesh amber yellow with rich, sugary 
flavor; small stone; bears second year after planting. 
First to middle of August to September. Should be inter- 
planted with Abundance to insure proper pollination. 
We plant millions of trees 
and seeds each year, and har- 
vest millions of young trees. 
Producing trees of Greening 
quality by ordinary methods 
would result in having to 
charge much higher prices. 
But by mechanizing our meth- 
ods, using specially designed 
machinery and equipment, de- 
veloped for Greening by Green- 
ing engineering division, we 
effect tremendous economies. 
Pictured here is but one of 
Greenings ingenious devices 
which means better trees for 
less money. Other machines of 
equal importance are shown 
elsewhere in this catalog. 



