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ous carriers. Yet they have persevered, and succeeded in introducing about seventy varieties 

 of Apples, forty of Pears, fifteen of Peaches, as many of Plums, twenty of Cherries, several of 

 Quince ; besides Nectarines, Apricots, Almonds, Currants, Gooseberries, and the Walnut and 

 Hickory nuts. They are doing well in their business. 



Several varieties of their Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, and other fruit, have borne 

 the three last seasons. In general terms, they may be said to promise ■well, both in the size and 

 quality of fruit. Our trees fruit from one to three years younger here than in the Northern 

 States, and produce more abundantly. No doubt your shy bearers would, with us, load them- 

 selves heavily with fruit. This peculiar characteristic of our climate leads us to anticipate that 

 our trees will be short lived, unless they receive a high state of culture. Is this a logical deduc- 

 tion? What peculiar treatment will be necessary to supply trees with nutrition, where they load 

 themselves beyond their capability of support, without breaking?" E. F. — Oregon City. 



Maintain a vigorous growth by good culture of the soil around tlie trees, by occasional 

 dressings of compost, and if necessary, thin the fruits. Pruning, also, stimulates tlie 

 growth of over-fruitful trees. The following is an extract of a letter from J. W. Ladd : 



" Fruit growing is attracting a lively interest throughout Oregon. The farmers are generally 

 planting out large orchards of the choicest kinds of fruit. We have most of the leading varieties 

 cultivated in the Northern States. In the summer of IS-ll Messrs. Lewellex &. Meek, from Iowa, 

 brought across the plains most of the leading varieties of fruits cultivated in the West, and now 

 have a large nursery and orchard of bearing trees at Milwaukie, eight miles below this place. 

 Some of their Pears sold at a dollar each. Apples at twenty -five cents, and some, I believe fifty 

 cents. I brought from New York in the fall of 1850 some twenty-three hundred fruit trees, em- 

 bracing most of the leading varieties cultivated there. These were, I believe, the first trees ever 

 brought to this coast by the Isthmus that lived. Fruit trees make an astonishing growth here, 

 and bear early, and the fairest fruit that I ever beheld. Some fifteen difle'cnt kinds have borne 

 fruit this year, on small trees only one year from the bud. 



Our climate seems peculiarly favorable to the growth of trees. I have not seen ice thicker 

 than window glass tiiis year. We have had only three hard frosts ; just enough to stop the 

 growth of trees. All kinds of hardy grass is yet growing finely, so that the loose stock are fat 

 witliout being fed. J. W. L. — Oregon City, Dec. lOth." 



Fraud in Fruit Trees. — The trade in trees has now grown to be so extensive, that a 

 large number of persons are atti'acted to it who are mere dealers, buyers, and sellers. 

 Many of these are honest, responsible men, who aim at doing a fair, honest business ; but 

 on the other hand, many of them are notoriously dishonest, and are perpetrating gross 

 frauds upon the community. By deceitful means they procure the catalogues of respectable 

 concerns, and represent themselves as agents authorized to solicit orders. They obtain 

 their orders, and then fill them with whatever trash tliey can buy cheapest. People every- 

 where should be on their guard. We copy the following sensible article on this subject 

 from a late issue of Moore's Rural New Yorker : 



"In a late number of the Rural, we find an article quoted from the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, 

 under the heading, 'Fraud in Fruit Trees;' upon which, together with the editorial comments, I 

 wish to make a few remarks. Such frauds as here spoken of, have been extensively practiced in 

 this part of the State, the sellers invariably representing themselves as agents of the ' Rochester 

 Nursery.' The purchasers, in most cases, appear to think there is but one nursery in Rocliester, 

 and do not even know the name of the person with wliom tlicy contracted. Of course, nobody is 

 accountable, and no person's reputation Lis suffered hy tlie transaction. A single examj 

 show liow this business is done up here. A neighbor engaged a few trees, and among them 



