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The Valley of the Loganberry 



By C. A. Lisle, Pheasant Northwest Products Company, Salem, Oregon 



THERE are several hundred farmers 

 in Oregon who do not care a hoot 

 whether it was Luther Burbank or 

 Judge Logan or Christopher Columbus 

 who discovered the loganberry. They 

 have discovered that this new hybrid 

 fruit, this wonderberry of the fruit 

 world, is a money-maker for them right 

 on their own farms; and that's all the 

 geneology they need. However, there 

 is no doubt that the loganberry came 

 from California. Away back in 1883, 

 Judge John H. Logan, of Santa Cruz, 

 certainly did plant tame red raspber- 

 ries — the Texas Early — and the Califor- 

 nia Dewberry, a trailing wild black- 

 berry, together; and the resulting hy- 

 brid was the loganberry — a fruit larger, 

 more prolific, juicier, redder than either 

 of the parent stocks. And there is no 

 doubt that Burbank, the plant wizard, 

 only a year or two later crossed the 

 Cuthbert red raspberry and the Aughin- 

 baugh, an improved wild blackberry, 

 producing a hybrid berry which was 

 at first sold under the name of the 

 Humboldt, but later sold as the Phe- 

 nomal. Mr. Burbank claims that his 

 variety was the better of the two; and 

 that the luscious fruit now grown in 

 Oregon under the name Loganberry is 

 really the Phenomenal, which he dis- 

 tributed by the thousands through the 

 berry-growing section. If so, it's an- 

 other case of Columbus and Amerigo 

 Yespucius, as to who should first get 



his brand upon the big thing he had 

 discovered. Mr. Logan won the name. 

 But the discovery itself is the really 

 important matter. 



The loganberry as produced in its 

 native California was about the size of 

 the dewberry or wild blackberry; an 

 inch in length, juicy, but with the color 

 and the delicate flavor of the raspberry. 



int NorthwtfNt Products Co. 



Copyrljihtcd to I'h 



JUDGE LOGAN, 

 The originator of the famous loganberry. 



It was tried all over the United States, 

 being disseminated by nurserymen and 

 orchardists who believed it to be a 

 wonderful addition to the list of civil- 

 ized fruits. Almost everywhere the 

 vigorous plant will grow, but it has 

 failed to produce adequate returns of 

 fruit east or south of the Cascade range 

 in Oregon. In the Willamette Valley 

 of Oregon, however, it has made up for 

 its coy vagaries elsewhere. Here it 

 grows to twice the size of the parent 

 California berry; berries two inches 

 long, three-quarters of an inch in diam- 

 eter, each one containing a tablespoon- 

 ful of the daintiest red juice — a single 

 fruit almost a full drink for a thirsty 

 man. Loganberry, Burbankberry, Won- 

 derberry — here it is at its best. 



The climate of the Willamette Valley 

 has much to do with making this a 

 berry country. The annual precipita- 

 tion is about 45 inches; about 22 inches 

 of rain fell during December, 1917, with 

 only four or five nights during the win- 

 ter that froze ice. The temperature has 

 not in years gone lower than 10 degrees 

 above zero. Blackberries are hardy, 

 able to stand 30 degrees below zero in 

 the Eastern and Middle States; raspber- 

 ries, too, go through the same ferocious 

 winters. But they must pay for their 

 exposure, like the man who gets the 

 rheumatism, and the pneumonia; for 

 government statistics credit the fruits 

 back there with a yield of hardly one- 

 third what the loganberry reaches in 

 Oregon — and some, like the loganberry, 

 will not bear at all under those hard 



