304 FRUIT-GROWING 



duction into that state is still to be classed as 

 almost recent history. 



In 1847, Henderson Lewelling set out from 

 Iowa to the Northwest, carrying with him a 

 fine lot of selected fruit trees of various kinds. 

 I presume he had a premonition that fruit would 

 do well in that then, new, territory, and his no- 

 tion certainly was well grounded. He settled at 

 what is now Milwaukee, Oregon, a few miles 

 south of Portland, and established his fruit 

 plantation. One of the interesting results of 

 this trip of Lewelling 's was a change in the 

 name of one of our best-known sweet cherries. 

 Among his collection of trees was a specimen 

 of the Napoleon, an old variety that has been 

 known by that name for many years. In the 

 trip across the mountains, the label was lost 

 from this tree and when it finally fruited he 

 did not know what it was so he gave it a name 

 of his own. From that time on the Napoleon 

 has been grown in the West as " Royal Ann,'* 

 and the error is now so firmly fixed that it will 

 probably never be corrected. Even eastern 

 buyers, who do not know about cherry vari- 

 eties, specify Royal Ann cherries when they 

 purchase their canned goods. Technically 

 speaking, from a pomological standpoint, there 

 is no such variety. 



Henderson Lewelling was succeeded by Seth 

 Lewelling, who carried on a nursery business 



