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could not be explained by environment. When 

 I have seen them grown together they were 

 identical. 



Lambert 



The work of the Lewelling brothers in Or- 

 egon was mentioned in connection with the Bing 

 cherry. Although they did not originate the 

 Lambert they were indirectly connected with 

 its appearance. The tree appeared as a seed- 

 ling under a Napoleon tree that Henderson 

 Lewelling had planted in the orchard of J. H. 

 Lambert, Milwaukee, Oregon. This seedling 

 was grafted to May Duke and later was trans- 

 planted. Some years later, about 1880, the 

 May Duke top died and a sprout from the seed- 

 ling root formed a new top. All those years 

 that seedling root had been furnishing strength 

 for the old May Duke top and had been held 

 down by the top. When its chance came it thrust 

 its sprouts heavenward and produced the first 

 Lambert cherries — a sort that shares the pop- 

 ularity of the Bing in the Northwest. I have 

 often wondered how many other good varieties 

 have been lost to the world because the seedling 

 roots were prevented from growing by the 

 vigor of some old top of an established sort. 

 There have been any number of " hair- 

 breadth" escapes in the annals of horticulture 

 and several of them have been mentioned in 



