THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
79 
A. H. GRIESA. 
Augustus H. Griesa was born in Bielefeld, Prussia, where 
he lived and grew up and had the advantages of its city school 
till he came to this country, in 1856 , settling at Lima, N. Y., 
with his parents. The next spring he moved to Naples, N. Y., 
where he got work in a nursery, and remained there ten years, 
going to school in winters. 
In the spring of 1867 he went as a young man to Lawrence, 
Kansas, bought a small place, and began the nursery in a 
small way that has since grown to be the Kansas Home Nur¬ 
sery ; increasing its capacity and extending its trade ; was 
married in 1869 to Miss Amelia H. Beebe of Lima, N. Y., who 
has always been a constant and ever ready helpmeet in every 
effort. 
Aside from growing trees, he has done much experimental 
work, especially testing the comparative value of fruits and 
flowers, and fruit for market. His 
first effort was to get a later grape 
than those we now have, as all ripen¬ 
ed too early to keep well, but no 
satisfactory kind was grown ; then 
raspberries were tried. He originat¬ 
ed the Kansas and has been gratified 
to know it succeeds so well over so 
large an area of country. Then the 
Mele strawberry was a good kind for 
family use and the Superb apricot 
was one of over 100 seedlings cf the 
Russian type, and that will take first 
place in time. The Massachusetts 
State Horticultural Society awarded 
it a first class certificate of merit. 
Color and quality only ruled. 
Now he has the New Cardinal 
raspberry that will add more to the 
laurels of new fruits than any others. 
so extremely unfavorable that correspondents seem to have taken 
peculiar satisfaction in emphasizing the promising outlook for grapes. 
Cureful comparison with the average for the past fifteen years, how¬ 
ever, shows that of the 8 states having the largest acreage in bearing 
vines, New York alone reports an average condition. In Ohio the 
condition is 2 points below the fifteen year average, in Virginia and 
Indiana 7 points below, in North Carolina 1 point, in Kansas 41 points, 
in California 14 points, and in Illinois 22 points below. 
Hong anb Short. 
JULY CROP REPORT. 
The crop report of the United 
States Department of Agriculture 
shows the following conditions on 
July 
A. H. Griesa. 
Peach trees in car lots may be had of John Peters & Co., Uriah, Pa.; 
also apple and Japan plums. 
Peach seed is rather scarce, but it may be obtained of Thomas Mee¬ 
han & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
High grade trees are offered by Hoopes, Bro. and Thomas, West 
Chester, Pa. They have 600 acres. 
A list of your wants will be attended to promptly by the Spaulding 
Nursery and Orchard Co., Spaulding, Ill. 
Apple 2-year, and peach 1-year, may 
be had of II. M. Simpson &* Sons, Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind.; uninjured by cold weather. 
A positive insecticide and fertilizer is 
what is claimed for the caustic potash 
whale oil sold by W. II. Owen, Catawba 
Island, O. 
James Truitt & Sons, Chanute, Kan., 
have apple, peach, plum, apricot, Caro¬ 
lina poplar, white ash and soft maple in 
carload lots. 
Ellwanger & Barry have issued a 
handsome catalogue of strawberries, 
Holland bulbs and specialties for the sum¬ 
mer and autumn of 1899. 
Norway and silver maples, Irish juni¬ 
pers and AmericanArbor Vitae are special, 
ties with George Aclielis, West Chester, 
Pa., for next fall and spring. 
The University Avenue Nurseries, 
Rochester, N. Y., John Charlton & Sons, 
offer a well selected stock of specialties as 
well as a general nursery stock. 
The exclusive right to propagate the 
Dewey Cling peach east of the Rocky 
Mountains is offered for sale by the 
owner, H. W. Jenkins, Boonville, Mo. 
Evergreens, seedling and transplanted, 
may be obtained at the Evergreen Nur¬ 
sery Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; also Ameri¬ 
can Basswood, High Bush Cranberry, 
Sugar Maple, Black Birch, etc. 
Apples — There has been a general decline in the condition of apples 
during the month of June, and there are few important apple states 
in which the condition is not considerably below the average for the 
last fifteen years. In New York, Michigan and Missouri it is 18 points 
below, in Kansas 13, Kentucky 9, Tennessee 7, North Carolina 21, 
Virginia 10, Iowa 3, Illinois 2, and Maine 48 points below. On the 
other hand, it is 11 points above the fifteen-year average in Ohio, 5 
points above in Pennsylvania, and 5 points above in Indiana. 
Peaches— The department has no previous record of so general a 
failure of the peach crop as the condition of July 1 foreshadows. 
There is not a state from one end of the country to the other that is 
likely to have an average crop, while in many states the indications 
point to a total failure. Of the 18 having 1,000,000 or more bearing 
trees at the last federal census, 8 are unlikely to have more than one- 
tenth of a crop and in 5 others the indications are for less than 
one-fourth of a crop. In the midst of this gloomy outlook. New 
York, with indications pointing to rather more than a half crop, and 
California, with the prospect of something less than three-fourths, 
seem highly favored. 
Grapes —The condition of other fruits reported upon is in the main 
A new seedling peach, the Clifton Park, is offered by Wiley &Co., 
Cayuga, IS. Y. 
The most complete line of nursery stock in France is claimed by 
Levavasseur & Sons. Ussy and Orleans, France. Herman Berkhan, 39 
Cortland St., New York city, is sole agent for the United States and 
Canada. 
The largest s ock of maples, elms, chestnuts, etc., in the country is 
offered for fall and spring trade by Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, 
Conn.; also October Purple plum, Green Mountain grape, Japanese 
maples, etc. ___ 
Toledo is to be the scene of the Ohio Centennial Exposi¬ 
tion in 1902 . 
Red and yellow scale in large quantities was found in trees 
certified to by Inspector R. E. Drummond, of Los Angeles, as 
clean. The Riverside officials were much exercised over the 
matter and now the Los Angeles Horticulturul Commission 
has declared that it will issue no certificate on nursery stock 
except after most rigid inspection, 
