THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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HON. N. n. ALBAUGH. 
Hon. N. H. Albaugh, president of the Albaugh Nurs¬ 
ery and Orchard Co., Tadmor, O., and vice-president of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, was born in Ohio, in 
1834, and is therefore 60 years old. His boyhood was 
spent on the farm. He began teaching school at 18 years 
of age, and taught very successfully for ten years or more. 
Marrying just before the war, he left his little family and 
went into the Union army, carrying a musket, and aided, 
under Grant to repel Lee in Virginia and the East. He 
was county school examiner for twelve years in his county. 
He is the author of the present magnificent school law of 
Ohio for the country districts, which establishes supervision 
and high schools in the rural 
sections. He was elected in . 
1885 to represent his county in 
the state legislature ; was made 
chairman of the public works or 
canal committee ; was re-elected 
in 1887, and was by acclamation 
chosen as one of its presiding offi¬ 
cers ; he was one of the republi¬ 
can presidential electors for Ohio 
in 1892. He has often presided 
over county, district, congres¬ 
sional and other conventions. 
Mr. Albaugh began the nur¬ 
sery business at Tadmor, O., in 
1858, and has continued in the 
business successfully, at the same 
place, to this time. In 1888, 
the business having grown to 
large proportions it was incorpo¬ 
rated under the title of the 
Albaugh Nursery and Orchard 
Co., with a capital stock of 
$100,000, taken by over thirty 
prominent capitalists of Dayton, 
O., and vicinity, with Mr. Al- 
bauch who was elected its iM'esident, and still holds the 
same position. This company employs its own salesmen 
on a salary, guarantees its varieties to the purchaser, and does 
its retail business on a different plan than any other nur¬ 
sery in the United States. 
Mr. Albaugh is also an extensive orchardi.st. In the 
winter of i889-’90, he, with about thirty other Ohioans, 
made a trip over Georgia, and noting some veiy feitile 
table lands in Houston County, Ga., invested. A few 
months later the Albaugh-Georgia bruit Co. was foimed 
and incorporated, purchasing 1,172 of the best land neai 
Fort Valley, Ga., and in the fall of 1890, 70,000 peach trees 
and 1,000 pear trees were planted thereon. A year later 
Mr. Hale of Connecticut followed and bought a farm of 
800 acres near the Albaugh-Georgia plantation. Since the 
first purchase as abov^e, Mr. Albaugh and others have 
formed seven other fruit companies and bought 8,000 acres 
of land in the same county, and planted orchards thereon, 
until at this time, they are the largest orchards in the United 
States, or even the world, comprising at this date 550,000 
peach trees, 11,000 Keiffer pear trees, 10,000 Burbank 
plum trees, and 30,000 grape vines. A large proportion oi 
these trees are just coming into full bearing. He also has 
a large orchard in Kentucky of over 50,000 peach trees. 
Mr. Albaugh is a portly man, of the blond type, a jovial, 
social fellow, full of wit and repartee, and is accounted a 
good talker on his feet in the meetings of the American 
Association of Nurserymen. He was president of the 
association in 1881, at Dayton, O.; again at Atlanta, in 
1892 ; and was elected vice- 
president at its session at Niagara 
Falls. He Ls president of the 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective 
Association. His business in¬ 
tegrity has nev^er been called in 
question. He is prominent in 
lod^fe and church circles, and 
o 
makes friends wherev^er he goes. 
HON. N. H. ALBAUGH. 
A jiew grape plague has 
appeared in Ohio, known 
scientifically as ficjia viticidia 
Walsh. The bark is eaten 
from the grape roots, some¬ 
times partially, but in man)' 
ca.ses almost wholly, by num¬ 
bers of small white grubs, as 
many as sixty-five having been 
found in the ground about a 
single vine. These grubs pro¬ 
duce a small brown beetle 
— not the rose bug — a little 
over a quarter of an inch in 
length and covered with very 
short whitish hairs. The 
beetle feeds upon the foliage of the grape, emerging from 
the ground in June, and probably feeding until August or 
September. This beetle has long been known to eat the 
leaves of the grape in Kentucky, Southern Illinois and 
Missouri, but up to the present time nothing has been 
known of the habits of the grubs. Spraying with paris 
ofreen, one ounce to twelve gallons of water destroys the 
beetles. Bi-sulphide of carbon placed in the ground about 
the roots of the vines, three ounces each, will kill the giubs. 
P. C. Reynolds, of Rochester, is preparing a biography 
of the late Patrick Barry for ijrivate circulation. 
L. O. Howard has been made entomologist for the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, succeeding Dr. C. V. Riley, 
retired. 
