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and Japan are ornamental, as are also 

 those from North America. These facts 



may be sliown more clearly by the follow- 

 ing table:* 



No. 



Name 



Nativity 



Cultivated or Not 



1 



2 



3 



11 



4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 10 

 8 

 9 



For ornament only. 



For ornament and for fruit. 



For ornament only. 



Eastern apple Eastern North America . . . 



Prairie apple Mississippi valley 



Southern apple Southern states 



Oregon apple Pacific coast of North 



America 



Smooth Wild apple. . Europe 



Hairy Wild apple. . . Europe 



Chinese apple China and Japan 



Ringo apple ' Japan 



Toringo apple j Japan 



Large Siberian apple Siberia, Tartary and China! Cultivated for its fruit 

 Small Siberian apple Siberia, Amur and China . . ; Cultivated for its fruit. 



Sparingly cultivated for ornament 

 Probably cultivated for its fruit. 

 Cultivated for its fruit. 

 Cultivated for ornament. 

 Cultivated for ornament. 

 Cultivated for ornament. 



•Charles E. Bessey. assisted by A. 

 Nebraska, 1894. 



Future of the Xatiye Crah 



Although the apple (Pints maJus) is 

 not a native of American soil, it seems 

 to find a congenial home here. It is true 

 we have some nearly related species in 

 our native crabs, and they give promise 

 in the hands of the experimenters of 

 better things in the years to come, but 

 as yet no specially valuable varieties have 

 been developed from this source. Our 

 cultivated apples and crabs are the lineal 

 descendants of the wild crabs of Europe. 

 Pyrus mains and Pyrus baccata, which 

 have had many years of careful culture 

 bestowed upon them to bring them to 

 our present standard of excellence. When 

 our American species have had as many 

 years of domestic life and as careful cul- 

 ture bestowed upon them they may rival 

 their foreign cousins in many of their 

 good qualities. G. B. Buackett 



BEGixxrvGS rv oregox 



The Oldest Apple Tree on the Pacific 

 Coast: There stands in the grounds of 

 Old Fort Vancouver, Vancouver, Wash., 

 an apple tree which dates back to the 

 earliest time in the history of white set- 

 tlements in the Columbia river valley. 

 Bancroft, the historian, tells the following 

 story of the tree: 



"At a lunch party in London, about 

 the year 1825, given in honor of some 

 young gentlemen who were about to em- 

 bark for Fort Vancouver in the employ 

 of the Hudson Bay Company, seeds of 

 fruit, eaten at the party were slipped 

 by some young ladies into the waistcoat 

 pockets of the young men who, upon 



F. Woods, Annual Report State Horticultural Society. 



their arrival at their destination, gave 

 them to Bruce, the gardener at the fort. 

 George H. Himes of the Oregon His- 

 torical Society is responsible for the fol- 

 lowing account: 



Old Vaucouver Tree 



Regarding the seedling apple which 

 grew near the Hudson Bay Company's 

 Fort Vancouver, now Vancouver, Wash., 

 from seed brought from London to that 

 place in 1S25: Mrs. Narciss Prentiss 

 Whitman, one of the two first American 

 women to cross the plains to Oregon, ar- 

 rived at Fort Vancouver on September 12, 

 1836. and her husband. Dr. Marcus Whit- 

 man, and her traveling companions — 

 Rev. Henry H. Spalding, Mrs. Eliza Hart 

 Spalding and William H. Gray — were en- 

 tertained by Dr. John McLoughlin, Chief 

 Factor of the Hudson Bay Company. 

 Mrs. Whitman, in her diary under the 

 date above mentioned, made the follow- 

 ing entry: 



"What a delightful place this is; what 

 a contrast to the rough, barren sand 

 plains through which we have so recently 

 passed! Here we find fruit of every de- 

 scription — apples, peaches, grapes, pears, 

 plums, and fig trees In abundance; also 

 cucumbers, melons, beans, peas, beets, 

 cabbages, tomatoes and every kind of veg- 

 etable, too numerous to be mentioned. 

 Every part is very neat and tastefully 

 arranged, with fine walks, lined on each 

 side with strawberry vines. At the oppo- 

 site end of the garden is a good summer 

 house covered with grape vines. Here 

 1 must mention the origin of these grapes. 



