Budding Scene at Mount Hope Nurseries. 
To Our Patrons. 
PRESENTING THIS, our revised Catalogue, we express our 
thanks to our many patrons for the confidence and patron- 
age with which we have been favored these many years, and 
we assure them that we are now in better condition than 
ever to serve them. 
THIRTY YEARS IN KANSAS is no small number, com- 
mencing, as we did, in a very small way, when all planting 
was, in a manner, experimental. We have now attained 
to a permanency gratifying to ourselves, and our industrial 
plant is one of the largest in the west. 
OUR FACILITIES are unequaled, and in this connection 
it is incumbent upon us to say that the wants of our custom- 
ers are much better served by our having the best equipped 
packing house in the west, enabling us, in all weather, to take care of 
the work in the short season in which we have to do it. Situated as we are, 
we have all the facilities of railroad, express, telegraph and telephone con- 
nections, which bring us into touch with our customers, however remote. 
IT IS NECESSARY to emphasize the fact of location, as it shows our 
facilities for the full development of stock between the extremes of heat 
and cold, so that we are able to produce trees second to none in the world. 
WE AIM TO KEEP fully abreast of an enlightened and cultivated 
people, in the introduction of new and valuable varieties of fruit and 
ornamentals, accepting with pleasure every thing that has real merit, 
and with equal readiness discarding and discontinuing the sale of worth- 
less humbugs. By careful consideration of the wants of our trade and faith- 
ful attention to business, we hope to continue to merit and receive a share 
of the patronage of lovers and buyers of choice fruits and ornamentals. 
A. C. GRIESA & BRO., Lawrence, Kan. 
