The famous Lithuanian pomologist Professor Adomas Hrebnickis studied 629 apple trees, 223 pear trees, 240 plum trees, 105 cherry trees and several dozen varieties of fruit bushes. He grew fruit tree varieties imported from Russia, Poland, Germany, the USA, as well as local varieties, studied yield, fertilization, and monitored frost resistance. He found, studied, and distributed fruit tree varieties previously unknown to pomologists but grown in Lithuanian gardens and named them – „Beržininkai pineapple“, „Beržininkai raspberry“, „Gerkonių raspberry“, „Lithuanian sugar“, „Lithuanian pepina“, „Panemunės white“.
In 1903–1906 he edited the „Fruit Atlas" (Atlas plodov). In it he described and illustrated varieties, presented an assessment of varieties in Lithuanian climatic conditions. In 1904–1906 he proposed a list of fruit tree varieties for Russian regions. In 1911 he published an unofficial Lithuanian standard assortment of fruit trees in the journal „Plodovodstvo“.
In 1890–1904, he planted a 14-hectare pomological garden in Staniškiai near Dūkštas, and renamed the area from Velnynas to Rojus. In 1961, the Prof. Adamas Hrebnickis Memorial Museum was established in his homestead.
Buried in the southwestern corner of the Dūkštėliai cemetery, in the inner part of the Stankevičius family grave. It was erected in 1943. The gravestone consists of a dark polished granite tombstone with the carved inscription „A. Hrebnickis 1857–1941“ and a dark granite monument – a stele with a cross on top.
Information updated 2025-12-15
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