THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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IIS THE WEST. 
An Unusually Wet Spring Made Work of Handling Stock Expensive 
—Planting Delayed—Surplus In Apple and Peach -Cherry, 
Plum and Small Fruits In Strong Demand at Good 
Prices—Trade Continued up to May 1st. 
Shenandoah, la., April 23.—E. S. Welch : “The season’s 
trade with us has been excellent, taken as a whole. Our trade 
on ornamental stock has exceeded any previous season. The 
demand for apple and peach has not been up to our expecta¬ 
tions, and prices have not been as firm on them as we had 
anticipated. For some reason there was not as much of this 
stock planted as we had expected. 
“Cherries, plums and small fruits of most varieties were in 
strong demand at good prices. 
“ We are still busy filling rush 
orders, and think there will be 
considerable trade up to the first 
of May. Have not had time to 
get our books up to date yet, but 
think our volume of business will 
exceed last year’s. Customers 
are generally pleased and hopeful 
for the future. Are making about 
the same plant as we did last 
year. Collections satisfactory to 
date.” 
Ottawa, Kans., April 23. — 
F. H. Stannard Co. : “We have 
had a splendid winter and spring 
trade, the largest we have ever 
had. We are entirely sold out on 
some lines, and very closely sold 
on others, having some surplus 
in heavy grades of apples and a 
few peach. We have had an un¬ 
usually wet, bad spring, which has 
made it very expensive in hand¬ 
ling the stock that was not handled 
in the fall, and our planting has 
been very much delayed. 
“ However, our season has been 
in a general way very satisfactory, 
and the outlook for summer’s ^ q 
trade is encouraging.” 
say “start,” advisedly, for about the only capital invested was 
whatever there was of pluck, and the Hope of Youth which 
knows no failure. 
From a few thousand grafts, a few more thousand cuttings, 
a few acres of land, to the present establishment, tells the story 
of a continual growth of a business that is certainly gratifying^ 
and which now consists of upwards of one hundred and fifty 
acres devoted to the business and whose dealings extend to 
the principal firms of the United States and Europe. 
Mr. Griesa is a member of the American Association of 
Nurserymen and of the Western Association of Nurserymen, 
keeping in close touch with the many interests. He has one of 
the pleasant homes of the city, with all the up-to-date improve¬ 
ments, a family of a wife and four children, three daughters 
and a son, where we are sure any visiting nurseryman will find 
a welcome. The National Nurseryman has not missed a 
visit to this home since its publication. Mr. Griesa like many 
others of the craft, is of foreign 
birth, being a Prussian, a lover 
of his profession, and of all that 
makes life and its surroundings 
more beautiful. 
Lawrence is forty miles west of 
Kansas City, on the main lines 
of the A. T. & S. F. R. R. and 
the U. P. R. R. with a population 
of about thirteen thousand, a 
city of homes, churches and 
schools, the seat of the State Uni¬ 
versity, making it one of the edu¬ 
cational centers of the West. It 
has long been known as a nursery 
center. 
GREENHOUSE BUILDING. 
CHANGE IN A WESTERN FIRM. 
The Lord & Burnham Company, 
Horticultural Architects and Builders 
of Irvington-on Hudson, N. Y., have 
nearly completed a galvanized plant 
in connection with their works at 
Irvington, and in future intend to gal¬ 
vanize nearly all the iron-framed tables 
and beds that they make. The advan¬ 
tages derived from this galvanizing 
will be readily seen as the frame work 
will not require painting, and the ad. 
ditional [cost of galvanizing over and 
above the cost of painting is not a 
large item. Besides iron-framed tables and beds, they propose to 
galvanize the angle iron eave plate in commercial houses, at a slight 
extra cost, whenever the owner desires. 
GRIESA 
We are advised that the wellknown firm of A. C. Griesa & 
Bro., of Lawrence, Kansas, have dissolved partnership. This 
was one of the oldest firms west of the Missouri river, being 
established in the spring of 1869. The business will be con¬ 
tinued by Mr. A. C. Griesa who bought the interest of the 
brother, and is now the sole proprietor. 
Thirty-four years in Kansas takes one back to somewhat of 
pioneer days, and it may not be without interest to know that 
in February 1869 the present proprietor left his home in 
Western New York to try his fortune in the Sun Flower State , 
and to start the Mount Hope Nurseries (of the West). We 
The Lord & Burnham Company have now the most complete works 
devoted to greenhouse building, including foundry, boiler and machine 
shops, wood-woiking mill, carpenter and paint shops, etc., fitted with 
the latest and special machinery in every department. They keep on 
hand a large stock of cast-iron gutters, sills and other finished and 
unworked materials, which greatly facilitates the execution of orders. 
They carry on hand the largest stock of air-dried cypress and assort¬ 
ment of sizes to be found in the North. They use only this kind of 
lumber, as they find that when properly treated it is superior to any 
other. 
They will be pleased to send a copy of their catalogue on receipt of 
5 cents for postage. 
