66 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



This work was very much to our advantage last year, with 

 the short crop on the Atlantic and middle West. Soon after 

 the June report had been published in the East of the favor- 

 able outlook for the Oregon fruit crop, buyers came to our 

 office for more detailed information, and they told me that it 

 was the favorable report that had brought them to Oregon. 



PERMANENT EXHIBIT. 



It is doubtful if our people appreciate the great benefit the 

 state derives by the object lesson and standing advertisement 

 of the products of the garden, orchard, field, forest, and 

 stream on exhibition at the room of the board, 246 Washing- 

 ton Street, which was inaugurated by Mr. Dosch, maintained 

 by subscription by the citizens of Portland, and helped out 

 to a large extent by the individual members of this board. To 

 show how earnest the board have been in the matter, the fol- 

 lowing resolution, which was unanimously passed by the 

 board, explains the strong interest taken in the work. It is 

 well to state that the board did not stop with the passing of 

 the resolution, but have contributed liberally ; as evidence, we 

 have as fine specimens of fruit on exhibition in our room as 

 can be found anywhere in the world. 



At the semiannual meeting held in October, 1901, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted : 



Besolved, That we, the members of the State Board of Horticulture, deem 

 it to the interest of the fruit growers of the state, that a permanent exhibit 

 of all fruits grown in the state be kept on exhibition at the room of the 

 board ; and that each member of the board will work earnestly in their 

 respective districts to secure a creditable exhibit, in order to give visitors 

 to the room a reasonable idea of the horticultural possibilities of Oregon. 



The room is visited constantly by newcomers, whether they 

 be homeseekers or tourists, seeldng information on and study- 

 ing our resources. On the register can be seen such compli- 

 mentary remarks as these — "grand," "never saw its equal," 

 "marvelous," "excellent," "first class," and so on without 

 end. 



From several hundred letters of inquiry sent out through 

 the state in June, 1901, the following estimates were made of 

 the season's fruit crop : — 



