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was. named after a faithful old Chinaman. He also orig- 

 inated the Golden prune in 1876. The Silver prune was 

 a misnomer of Coe's Golden Drop, perpetrated by a nur- 

 seryman about 1875. The Lambert cherry was grown by 

 J. H. Lambert and presented by him to the Oregon State 

 Horticultural Society at the annual meeting of 1896. The 

 Bremen prune, the Imperial Precose, the Ickwort plum, 

 Reine-Claucle, Vert, and the favorite French table plum, 

 the Merabel, were in my importations from Germany in 

 1872. The Bullock prunes were seedlings of the seventies 

 grown by Mr. Bullock near Oswego. A. R. Shipley, some 

 time in the sixties, imported from the Eastern States forty- 

 five varieties of grapes, American and European varieties. 

 For some years he grew quite a vineyard, was an enthu- 

 siast in grape culture a business man retired to the 

 country for love of horticulture. A close observer and a 

 good cultivator, he did valuable work for the grape in- 

 dustry, and was the acknowledged authority on the sub- 

 ject. He discarded all European varieties, and advised 

 the cultivation of only the American varieties for the 

 Willamette Valley. In answer to my request to name the 

 three best varieties for the market, he- said, "If I were 

 setting o.ut three hundred grapes to-day, I would first set 

 one hundred Concords, then another one hundred Con- 

 cords, then another one hundred Concords," adding, " that 

 is, to make "money." 



In early days we had agricultural literature. The first 

 paper was the Oregon Farmer, August. 1858, published at 

 Portland by W. B. Taylor & Co., Albert G. Walling, editor. 

 A file of that paper in the rooms of the Oregon Historical 

 Society reads well to-day. It was published from 1858 to 

 1863. Then came 'the Oregon A griculturist, Salem, 1870 

 to 1872, by A. L. Stirison. E. M. Waite published a paper 

 for a time in Salem. The North Pacific Rural Spirit, W. W. 

 Baker, publisher and editor, Portland, started in 1867, is 



