DR. J. R. 



I visited these seedling trees, now eighty years old, hoary 

 chroniclers of time, yet showing a vigorous growth. Mrs. 

 Gay Hoyden, of Vancouver, informed me she had eaten 

 fruit from these trees for fifty-four years. The fruit is not 

 large, but of fair quality. Fortunately Government does 

 not allow a tree to be removed or destroyed without an 

 order from the department. Capt. Nathaniel Wyeth, in his 

 diary of 1835, speaks of having grafted trees on his place, 

 Fort William, on Wapatoo Island, now called Sauvies' 

 Island. Grafts and stock must have come from the Sand- 

 wich Islands, then the nearest point to the cultivated fruits 

 which early missionaries had brought to these islands. 

 As Captain Wyeth left the country soon after, we have no 

 record of his success with these fruits. As Indians and 

 trappers had little care for trees or cultivated fruits, this 

 venture can not be considered in any historical record of 

 the introduction of grafted fruit in Oregon. 



The Hudson Bay Company introduced the first culti- 

 vated rose, as early as 1830, a pink rose, with the attar of 

 rose aroma. An occasional Hudson Bay rose may yet be 

 seen in the old yards in Oregon City and at Vancouver. 

 It is sometimes called the Mission rose. Miss Ella Talbot, 

 on Talbot Hill, just south of Portland Heights,, has one 

 more than forty years old. The Biddle rose the Chinese 

 Daly 1852, probably the second importation. The 

 Gillette rose, 1853, the third and most valuable, is now 

 widely distributed. The cut-leaved Evergreen blackberry 

 came from the Sandwich Islands. I first saw it early in 

 the fifties, covering a thirty-foot trellis in the dooryard of 

 J. B. Stevens "Uncle Jimmie Stevens," as he was known. 

 From him I learned that it came from the Sandwich 

 Islands, reported to be a native of one of the South Sea 

 islands. One of the Feejee islands is covered with it. 

 Seth Lewelling originated the Lewelling, the Black Re- 

 publican, and the Bing cherries, in the sixties. The Bing 



