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states, very many complimentary notices having been received and 

 commending the good wohk the Board has accomplished through its 

 its publication. Many of the half-tones used in the reports have been 

 cheerfully loaned to the horticultural press from the Pacific to the 

 Mississippi Valley, which has done much in advertising the horti- 

 cultural possibilities of Oregon. Frequently eastern papers ask for 

 a write-up on some subject of horticulture, and desire to have the 

 same illustrated with Oregon scenes. The Board is now in a posi- 

 tion to co-operate in this matter, having obtained the necessary ap- 

 paratus to be used in this work. The value to the State of this 

 mode of publicity is certainly very great and far reaching. We 

 are able to trace the work accomplished in this way by the large 

 correspondence coming to this office from citizens of other states 

 seeking a location in a desirable fruit belt. 



ORCHARD PLANTING. 



Oregon is coming to the front in the matter of orchard planting, 

 which has been general in all parts of the State. These thousands 

 of fertile acres planted to apple orchards, once in bearing, means 

 that Oregon will be heard from in no uncertain way as one of the 

 great fruit states of this Union. 



The Willamette Valley, once the home of "the Oregon big, red 

 apple," is again to be reckoned with as a producer of choice fruit. 



In the Wallace orchard, near Salem, was harvested a large and 

 fine crop of Spitzenburgs— 10,000 boxes, grading first class, and 

 75 tons for the dryer, 700 boxes of Baldwins, 165 tons of Bartlett 

 pears that went to the cannery, 1,800 boxes of fall pears that were 

 packed and shipped. 



The 8-year-old apple and pear-orchard of H. C. Bushnell, of 

 Junction City, Lane County, produced 4,500 boxes of Jonathans, 

 and some Baldwins and Spitzenburgs this season. The first crop, 

 when the orchard was four years old, amounted to 1,500 boxes. 



It goes without saying, however, that these orchards were well 

 kept and cared for. It would appear not to be so much a matter 

 of location as it is in the care and attention bestowed upon the 

 orchard. • 



GRAPE culture. 



More attention each year is being paid to the cultivation of the 

 grape. A few years ago our markets were almost AvhoUy supplied 



