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Title: Catalogue
Identifier: CAT31285592 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Greening Bros; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Michigan Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Monroe, Mich. : Greening Bros. Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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8 GREENING BROTHERS' CATALOGUE.
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A BUSY CORNER IN THE OFFICE. An instance showing the enormous volume of mail sent out from this office was a comparison made in the year 1900 of postage sold at our Monroe post office, the city having over 6.000 inhabitants; it was shown that the expense of our postage during three months was a trine over 25') of the'average receipts of ^the Monroe post office for three months. Each department in the office is required to answer all mail the same day when received; only such people as are well qualified are employed. The handling of mail with us is an item of supreme importance and implies a vast amount of careful work. Our entire system of book-keeping, embracing account records, sales books, agents'accounts, stock records and aggregate books is entirely our own invention and nearly all is copyrighted. richest 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. The yearly growth of our Our Extensive business requires the al- most yearly erection of R , suitable buildings for the prompt and careful hand- PUIlOlflffS ting of our very large out- put of trees and plants. Having been burned out in (892, which Compelled immediate reconstruction, our present system is entirely new and and has every convenience known to the trade and which a life-long experience could sug- gest. The system includes m the group our residences and oflices, which greatly add to the convenience >>j the management, besides insuring careful supervision of our men. better attention to details and greater dispatch in transacting business. See illustrations in this catalogue. Un Careful Handling (u n 1,1 ^ A fact. We refer to the c) . - _ careless handling of nur- 34 ry stock by nurserymen ^Kllltlll MaCKlflC) before shipment and the slipshod manner f pack- Lug. A vast amount of nursery stock reaches its destination in a condition fit only for the brush heap, as the re- sult of careless work and handling at the nursery. Trees are often allowed to lie exposed to wind and sun for days and in many instances are shipped without necessary packing What sort of a Father has your Son ?

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