4 The Greening Nursery Company 
“Bud Selection” 
A fruit tree to be profitable, must primarily inherit char- 
acteristics of production. 
Simply, ‘’Bud Selection’ is the practice of growing our fruit 
trees from buds whose characteristics are known. Our “Million 
Dollar Library’’ of tree performance records carries the de- 
tailed performance of thousands of trees—the date of plant- 
ing, date of bearing, how much, and what type of fruit they 
bore—its quality, color and size. Each year these trees are 
checked. Any undesirable characteristics are noted and work 
begun to eliminate them. By constantly working toward variety o « a 
improvement, we logically work toward elimination of disease, 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. 
YEARS OF TESTING REQUIRED 
In 1917 we began our individual tree performance records to furnish facts by which 
parent trees or limbs, known to possess the best characteristics of the variety, are selected. 
Constant testing and recording, year after year, of the production, color, size, and other 
vital factors of our parent trees finally gives us the bud—selected strain. 
GROWERS COOPERATION 
The co-operation of the fruit grower allowing us to work in their orchards, assist in 
keeping their production records, and contributing their experience and knowledge of 
their own trees has been invaluable. When a tree or limb is found, on which fruit of evident 
perfection grows, our careful records start. It is given a number and continuous records 
are kept for years before propagating buds are taken. 
YOUR INSURANCE OF PERFORMANCE 
Before we place our “‘bud-selected’’ name on our strains we must know. ‘’True-to- 
name” is not enough for us. We seek the best characteristics which naturally give the 
grower better fruit. 
uniform ripening and improved color. 
EXPERIMENTAL WORK 
Our research station, located at Benton Harbor, Michigan, is in the heart of the 
fruit belt, and is under the capable direction of Roy E. Gibson, who began his work on 
2 " “’Bud-Selection” in 1917 with Charles E. Greening. In addition to our bud-selection 
Here is a practical, working scien- work, he has run experiments on virus control, pruning, fertilizing and other problems of 
tist on the job. Roy E. Gibson, paramount interest to the grower. 
Director of Greening Research—a 
welcome figure among the nation’s 
fruit growers. OUR GOAL 
It all works toward our goal and ideal—the production of fruit that will sell at a profit. 
Only by Years of Ceaseless Progeny Tests and Accurate 
Records Is True ““Bud-Selection” Possible 
On the pages of books like this are detailed records of the performances 
of thousands of trees—the dates they were planted, when they began to bear, 
how much, what kind of fruit they bore each year—the quality, color, size, 
shape and every other characteristic having to do with profitable yield. 
These books register the history of Greening parent trees and provide 
the proof from whence Greening trees are given the certification of “‘Regis- 
tered, Pedigreed Stock.” 
Without such permanent records, “Bud Selection” would be just a word. 
Being one of the first to recognize the commercial value of ‘Bud Selection,”’ 
Greenings are 30 years ahead, thus having a third of a century advantage 
over common nursery practice. 
