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Title: Catalogue
Identifier: CAT31283717 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Greening Bros; Greening, Charles E; Greening, George A; River Raisin Valley Nursery; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Monroe Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Monroe, Mich. : Greening Bros.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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500,000 PEACH TREES IN BUD IN ONE SOLID BLOCK. Rows over one-half mile long. Photographed when four months old. An ocean of trees, yet only a portion of our annual output. Our peach trees are grown from the genuine Natural peach seed, obtained in the mountainis of Tennessee. In this climate trees are hardy and absolutely free from fungus of any kind. Vast fields of enterprise are opening up in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. American fruit, grain and manufactured goods are forcing- themselves into the farthest corner of the world. Hence we look into the future with bright prospects and with a mind to business. Preserve this book. This book was prepared with great care, and at a large expense and will be found a very valuable handbook. The information it contains is perfectly re- liable, and aside from its rare beauty it is worthy of being treasured with care and referred to with utmost confidence. OUR FACILITIES. Your attention is directed to our facilities, briefly sketched in the following paragraphs: 600 Stores of the Richest jCand. We have now over 600 acres devoted to the propagation of fruit, ornamental trees and plants, and here is where we feel most favored b)r nature. We are located about one mile south of the M. C. depot, on a very fertile tract of land, known as the La Plaisance Ba3' district, near Lake Erie, bordering on Plum Creek Bay. It is justly S^^^^^^^^^^^^^ claimed that this parcel of land is one of the rich- est in America. It is well adapted to growing healthy nursery stock, producing large bunches of fibrous roots, straight and smooth bodies. The growth of stock is something wonderful, often from 5 to 6 feet in one season, the wood always ripening up thoroughly before winter. We have the additional advantage of natural irrigation, flowing wells of the purest water being obtainable in every part of our nurseries. This is supplemented by a perfect system of artificial drainage, so that we are not to any appreciable extent affected by the extremes of rain and drought. "This world would be a fleeting show" if Greening Bros/ trees didn't grow-

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