. Greening's fruit growers' guide : complete in four departments. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Monroe Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 2 GREENING'S FRUIT GROWERS' GREENING BROS.' FAMOUS MEETING OF HORTICULTURISTS. Photograph of the Company Taken After a Tour Through the Nursery Grounds. A gathering- of over 300 leading fruit growers, prominent horticulturists, and repre- sentatives of the press, who came to inspect our stock and look over our grounds. After inspecting the nursery the party returned to the office, where a lunch had been pr
. Greening's fruit growers' guide : complete in four departments. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Monroe Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 2 GREENING'S FRUIT GROWERS' GREENING BROS.' FAMOUS MEETING OF HORTICULTURISTS. Photograph of the Company Taken After a Tour Through the Nursery Grounds. A gathering- of over 300 leading fruit growers, prominent horticulturists, and repre- sentatives of the press, who came to inspect our stock and look over our grounds. After inspecting the nursery the party returned to the office, where a lunch had been prepared, and immediately afterwards an impromptu meeting was called, the band played, and speeches were made. It was while the guests were thus assembled that the photo was taken. The speakers all had a good word for Greening Bros.' stock. One enthusias- tic grower said : " The half has not been told me. If I were to plant 500 acres I would buy every tree from Greening ; Another expressed himself—"May Greening Brothers live forever, and may we never ; Another one said: "I have visited many nurseries, but the stock of trees I have seen today excels in all respects any that I have ever seen. This firm deserves success and is getting ; A representative of a newspaper published in Essex County, Canada, wrote :— " It will pay any man who wants first-class trees to visit this nursery. One could not help being struck with the uniform size and shape of the trees. No unsightly knots, no dwarfed or crooked trees, no diseased plants are seen, and our ideas of what a first-class tree should look like were considerably changed, as we compared their trees with those we have been in the habit of purchasing. Peach trees of only four months' growth stand six feet high. They seem unable to grow stunted, deformed, gnarled and twisted little trees like those imposed on the people of Essex County last spring, from Eastern n«r- r PART ONE. Chapter o
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