114 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Apples," " Oregon Pears," " Oregon Cherries," " Oregon 

 Peaches," etc., which cannot help but be gratifying to our 

 fruitgrowers. 



It has been my aim to continually enlarge the usefulness of 

 this ofhce, reaching out in all directions for expansion of our 

 fruit industr}^ ; by reason of these efforts, a beginning of fruit 

 shipments to the Orient has been made. Through corre- 

 spondence with consuls and dealers, it has been learned that 

 there is quite a field for operation in Shanghai, Hong Kong, 

 and other large cities of China, as well as Nagasaki, Tokio, 

 Japan, and even Siberia. A shipment of apples was recently 

 made to Vladivostock, Siberia, which found a very sympa- 

 thetic market among the Russian inhabitants, with every 

 promise of expansion. One firm in Nagasaki asked me to 

 have shipped to them, last year, as a trial order, one hundred 

 boxes of apples by first steamer, and a like quantity on the 

 following steamer, paying cash for them . These orders were 

 turned over to a commission house in Portland, which filled 

 them with evident satisfaction, as the trade since then has 

 steadily increased. While I do not wish to repeat m3^self, 

 these Oriental markets are of so much importance that I can- 

 not help talking about it, and recommend the closest investi- 

 gation of it, as it will give us an outlet for all our surplus 

 fruits. We cannot always expect failures in some of the 

 eastern or European fruit centers for the marketing of our 

 surplus. There are years when all sections have abundant 

 fruit crops, and then the necessity of a market to the west of 

 us will be very apparent ; as this is liable to occur at any time, 

 it is well to be prepared. Remember the old adage, "In time 

 of peace prepare for war." 



GERMAN MARKET. 



For a number of years I have kept in close touch with Con- 

 sul-General Frank Mason at Berlin, Germany, Avhere some of 

 our line Italian prunes found a friendly market, and were sold 

 as high as one mark (twenty-four cents) per i30und. He wrote 

 to me recently, and said : "The popularity of American dried 

 and preserved fruit in this country has increased from year to 

 year — by reason of both their relative cheapness and their 

 unrivaled flavor and excellence — until a leading wholesale 

 dealer in such products at Berlin informs this consulate that 

 his applications from his customers — who are mainly grocers 



