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several gentlemen who came to give us a welcome: Mr. Douglas and 

 Doctor Tolmie and Doctor McLoughlin of the Hudson Bay Coir.pany, 

 who invited us in and seated us on a sofa. Soon we were introduce J 

 to Mrs. McLoughlin and Mrs. Tolmie, both natives of the country, half- 

 breeds; after chatting a little we were invited to take a walk in the 

 garden. What a delightful place it is, what a contrast to the rough, 

 barren plains through whicti we had so recently passed; here we find 

 fruits of every description, apples, grapes, pears, plums, and fig trees 

 in abundance; also cucumbers, melons, beans, peas, beets, cabbage, 

 tomatoes, and every kind of vegetable. Every part is very neat and 

 tastefully arranged with fine walks lined on either side with straw- 

 berries; at the end of the garden is a summer hovise with grapsvines.'* 



The apple and the pear trees, and the grapevines from these seeds 

 are yet annually bearing fruits on the grounds of the Government 

 barracks at Vancouver. Not long ago I visited these seedling trees, 

 now eighty years old, hoary chroniclers of time, yet showing a vigorous 

 growth. Mrs. Gay Hayden, of Vancouver, informed me she had eaten 

 fruit from these trees for fifty-four years. The fruit is not large, but 

 of fair quality. Fortunately Government does not allow a tree to be 

 removed or destroyed without an order from the department. Captain 

 Nathaniel Wyeth, in his diary of 1835, speaks of having grafted trees 

 on his place. Fort William, on Wapatoo Island, now called Sauvie's 

 Island. Grafts and stock must have come from the Sandwich Islands, 

 then the nearest point to the cultivated fruits which early missionaries 

 had brought to these islands. As Captain Wyeth left the country soon 

 after, we have no record of his success with these fruits. As Indians 

 and trappers had little care for trees or cultivated fruits, this venture 

 can not be considered in any historical record of .the introduction of 

 grafted fruit in Oregon. 



The Hudson Bay Company introduced the first cultivated rose, as 

 early as 1830, a pink rose, with the attar of rose aroma. An occa- 

 sional Hudson Bay rose may yet be seen in the old yards in Oregcn 

 City and at Vancouver. It is sometimes called the Mission rose. Miss 

 Ella Talbot, on Talbot Hill, just south of Portland Heights, has one 

 more than forty years old. The Biddle rose — the Chinese daily — 18-52, 

 probably the second importation. The Gillette rose, 1853, the third 

 and most valuable, is now widely distributed. The cut-leaved Evergreen 

 blackberry (Rubus laciniatus) came from the Sandwich Islands. I 

 first saw it early in the fifties, covering a thirty-foot trellis in the 

 dooryard of J. B. Stevens — "Uncle Jimmie Stevens," as he was known. 

 From him I learned that it came from the Sandwich Islands, reported 

 to be a native of one of the South Sea islands. One of the Feejes 

 islands is covered with it. Seth Lewelling originated the Lewelling, the 

 Black Republican, and the Bing cherries, in the sixties. The Bing was 

 named after a faithful old Chinaman. He also originated the Golden 

 prune in 1876. The Silver prune was a misnomer of Coe's Golden 

 Drop, perpetrated by a nurseryman about 1875. The Lambert cherry 



