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beautifully illustrated by Whittier in his poem commencing with these 

 lines : 



"The wild grape by the river side 

 And tasteless ground-nut trailing low, 

 The table of the woods supplied." 



The old Puritans could not have been such terribly stern and uncom- 

 promising foes of the good things of life, after all, since they knew 

 enough to find gustatory delight in such fruits as kind Mother Nature 

 provided for them in their exile. 



Fruit culture is most fascinating and ennobling, as well as the most 

 profitable branch of horticulture, and the advance in the fruit product 

 is evidence of the culture and civilization of a people. It is hard to 

 over-estimate the beneficial influence on health, morals, and manners of 

 a generous fruit supply. The ornamental grounds and orchards of the 

 homestead do much in childhood to strengthen that love of home and 

 pride of family which is the foundation of all patriotism. The cherished 

 memories of home thus enriched are, in after life, the strongest bond of 

 family to bring back the absent and wandering to the roof tree; and 

 the erring one is not wholly lost as long as these sacred memoiies of 

 home and childhood sometimes come to swell the heart and dim the 

 eye with the tear of repentance and contrition. 



The fruit industry as a business, in its vai'iety, extent, and commer- 

 cial importance, as we find it to-day, is of recent origin and within the 

 memory of the present generation — a worthy tribute to the brain and 

 muscle of men of our time. National and international communication 

 over water and land, the use of railroads with cheap freight rates and 

 rapid transit in fruit and refrigerator cars created the supply; con- 

 versely the supply increased creates the greatest demand — an inexorable 

 law of trade. The intelligent foresight and patient labors of those who 

 inaugurated this industry in the far-off wilds of Oregon, are worthy 

 a place in the archives of the State, and should be kept green in the 

 memory of those to come after us. 



In the summer of 1847, Mr. Henderson Luelling,* of Iowa, brought 

 across the plains several hundred yearling grafted sprouts — apple, pear, 



*It will be noticed that there is a difference in the spelling of the 

 names of Henderson Luelling and Seth Lewelling. As they were brothers 

 this discrepancy may seem to sviggest an error in one case or the other. 

 The explanation is this, it being given me by Alfred Luelling, a son of 

 Henderson, a few yeai"s ago: The family, originally, came from Wales, 

 and in the latter part of the eighteenth century settled in North Caro- 

 lina. Soon after arriving the head of the family decided to change the 

 name from the usual Welsh style of writing it — Llewellyn to Luelling, 

 in order to simplify it as much as possible. This was the practice of 

 the family when the children were born — Henderson on April 28, 1809, 

 and Seth several years later. During his whole life Henderson followed 

 the spelling adopted by his father; and that was the custom of Seth 

 until late in life — -at least as late as 1875 — as is shown by his nursery 

 catalogues which I printed. Soon after the latter year he adopted 

 "Lewelling" as his mode of spelling the name, but "Luelling" was the 

 style retained by the remainder of the family. — George H. Himes. 



