James Grieve (apple) were delivered to the city markets via train or horse-and-cart, but because they bruised easily they had to be carefully packed in laundry-type wicker baskets filled with straw. The fruit cannot sustain modern supermarket handling, and so they are now only grown in gardens and for direct sale to consumers. Nonetheless, James Grieve is considered a good apple because it is exceptionally tasty, it produces fruit every year, it is disease-resistant, and it is a good polleniser for other apples. It may drop early in warm weather. It is also a good apple for making apple juice. James Grieve (apple)
Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer will and gratefully acknowledge His goodness in permitting Mrs. Schaeffer to serve Him so long and so faithfully in this life, we pray that her example may stimulate others to follow in her steps, as she followed Christ."In 1903, the Schaeffer-Ashmead Memorial Chapel was constructed at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in honor of Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer and her husband and Professor Rev. Charles W. Schaeffer. The Memorial was given by their son, Rev. William Ashmead Schaeffer (missionary superintendent of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania), and their daughter, Katie Schaeffer. Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer (E.F.A.