APP 
and Japan are ornamental, as are also 
those from North America. These tacts 
No Name Nativity 
1 | Eastern apple Eastern North Ameiica 
2 | Prauie apple Mssissipp1 valley 
8 | Southern apple Southern states 
11 | Oregon apple Pacific coast of North 
America 
4 | Smooth Wild apple | Europe 
5 | Hairy Wald apple Kurope.. .. 
6 | Chinese apple China and Japan 
7 | Ringo apple Jupan 
10 | Toringo apple Japan 
8 | Large Siberian apple! Siberia, Tartary and China 
9 | Small Siberian apple; Siberia, Amur and China 
Nebraska, 1894. 
Future of the Native Crab 
Although the apple (Pirus malus) 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 trom this source. Our 
cultivated apples and crabs are the lineal 
descendants of the wild crabs of Europe, 
Pyrus malus 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. Bracketr 
BEGINNINGS IN OREGON 
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 
LES 
may be shown more clearly bs the follow- 
ing table 
Cultivated or Not 
For ornament only 
For ornament and for fruit. 
For ornament only 
Spalingly cultivated for ornament 
Probably cultivated for its truit. 
Cultivated for 1ts fruit. 
Cultivated for ornament. 
Cultivated for ornament 
Cultivated for ornament. 
Cultivated for its fruit. 
Cultivated for its fruit. 
“*Charles E Bessey, assisted by A. F Woods, Annual Report State Elorticultural Soviets 
their arrival at their destination, gave 
them to Bruce, the gardene: at the fort. 
George H. Himes of the Oregon His- 
torical Society is responsible for the fol- 
lowing account 
Old Vaneouver 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 1825 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 
I must mention the origin of these grapes. 
