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was gi'own by J. H. Lambei-t and presented by him to the Oregon State 

 Horticultural Society at the annual meeting of 1896. The Bremen 

 prune, the Imperial Precose, the Ickwort plum, Reine-Claude, Vert, and 

 the favorite French table plum, the Mirabel, were in my importations 

 from Germany in 1872. The Bullock prunes were seedlings of the 

 seventies grown by Mr. Bullock near Oswego. A. R. Shipley, some 

 time in the sixties, imported from the Eastern States forty-five vari- 

 eties of grapes, American and European varieties. For some years he 

 grew quite a vineyard, was an enthusiast in grape culture — a business 

 man retired to the country for love of horticulture. A close observer 

 and a good cultivator, he did valuable work for the grape industry, 

 and was the acknowledged authority on the subject. He discarded all 

 European varieties, and advised the cultivation of only the American 

 varieties for the Willamette Valley. In answer to my request to name 

 the three best varieties for the market, he said: *'If I were setting out 

 three hundred grapes today, I would first set one hundred Concords, 

 then another one hundred Concords, then another one hundred Con- 

 cords," adding, "that is, to make money." 



In early days we had agricultural literature. The first paper was 

 the Oregon Farmer, August, 1858, published at Portland by W. B. 

 Taylor & Co., Albert G. Walling, editor. A file of that paper in the 

 rooms of the Oregon Historical Society reads well today. It was 

 published from 1858 to 1863. Then came the Oregon Agriculturist, 

 Salem, 1870 to 1872, by A. L. Stinson. E. M. Waite published a paper 

 for a time in Salem. The North Pacific Rural Spirit, W. W. Baker, 

 publisher and editor, Portland, started in 1867, is now published and 

 edited by M. D. Wisdom. To-day we have the Rural Spirit, Portland^ 

 Pacific Homestead, Salem, and Oregon Agriculturist and Rural North- 

 west, Portland, published and edited by H. M. Williamson, and the 

 Northwest Pacific Farmer, Portland, published and edited by Frank Lee. 



The early history of fruit growing presents to the student at once, 

 a most romantic and a thoroughly practical and matter-of-fact series 

 of interesting pictures. It is related of some of the earliest settlers 

 in the Willamette Valley that nothing more thoroughly and painfully 

 accentuated their isolated condition than the absence of fruit trees on 

 their newly-made farms. Half the beauty and pleasure that brightens 

 the life of youth and childhood, it is not too much to say, is found in 

 the orchard of the old homestead — the sight of the trees in bloom, the 

 waiting and watching for the first ripe fruit, the in-gathering of the 

 fruit in the fall, and the storing of it away in bin and cellar for use in 

 the winter around the ingleside. 



Is it any wonder, then, that when some of the early settlers were 

 called to Southern Oregon to aid their fellow countrymen in repelling 

 the attacks of Indians, and finding there wild plums and wild grapes, 

 they brought with them on their return, roots of the former and cuttings 

 of the latter, in the hope that these foundlings of the southern forest 

 would take kindly to a more northern soil? In this act of transplanting 

 was illustrated the world's hunger for the fruit of the vine and tree, so 



