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onions aie attached to ropes, when they 
are exposed tor sale in our markets.” 
On December 6, 1835, Dr. Samuel Par- 
ke1, who arrived at Fort Vancouver sev- 
eral weeks before that date, says’ “Fruit 
of various kinds, such as apples, peaches, 
grapes and strawberries, for the time 
the, have been introduced, flourish, and 
prove that the climate and soil are well 
adapted to the purposes of horticulture ” 
These references antedate Mrs Whit- 
man one and two years. Somewhere I 
have a reference from another source 
substantially confirming what Mrs Whit- 
man says about the first introduction of 
fruit seeds. At the same time, I think 
it is unsafe to say these seeds were 
planted before the year 1825 Dr Mc- 
Loughlin did not arrive until late in De 
cember, 1824. 
B. F. Brown established a Nursery on 
“Puget Sound two miles below Olympia,” 
September 27, 1854 
The Hudson's Bay Company estab- 
lished a branch known as “The Puget 
Sound Agriculture Company” at Fort 
Nisqually, Pierce county, now known as 
Dupont, in 1838. Soon after that date, 
probably within a year or two, seedling 
fruit trees were taken there, one or two 
of which can still be seen or could be 
seen up to Six years ago. 
The first grafted fruit in the Puget 
Sound country was taken there by David 
J. Chambers in 1849 and 1850, all of 
which was bought of Luelling & Meek, 
Milwaukee. 
This firm was composed of Henderson 
Luelling and William Meek, who came 
across the plains in 1847. Meek was a 
nursery man and was doing business in 
Van Buren county, Iowa. He made the 
acquaintance of Luelling in 1846, and 
thus learned of his plans for taking a 
stock of selected fruit trees to Oregon; 
and not only that, but he made the ac- 
quaintance of Mr. Luelling’s daughter, 
and was deeply impressed by her appear- 
ance. He returned home and decided 
that he, too, would take a small stock 
of fruit trees to Oregon. Accordingly 
needful preparations were made, and 
on April 1, 1847, he started to Oregon 
across the plains and arrived at Oregon 
City September 9 following He diove 
on at once to the “Forks of the Santiam,”’ 
a section of countiy a few miles east of 
Albany. Here he “heeled in” his trees 
for the winter <A few weeks late: he 
made it “convenient” to call on Mr Luel- 
ling, below Milwaukee, primarily to see 
the condition his trees were in, but 
really to renew acyuaintance with the 
daughter. To his surprise he found Mr. 
Luelling’s trees properly set out and all 
in good condition. An arrangement was 
then made to add his trees to the Juel- 
ling stock, and thus the firm of Luelling 
& Meek was formed. And not long after 
that, having found favor in the eyes of 
the young lady already alluded to, a sec- 
ond co-partnership was formed, the high 
contracting parties being Mr. Meek and 
Miss Luelling. 
The partnership with Mr. Luelling con- 
tinued from 1848 to 1854, when the lat- 
ter sold out to his brother, Seth, and H. 
W. Eddy, and removed to California, 
where he died on December 28, 1878. In 
1859 Mr. Meek sold out to J. H. Lambert 
and removed to Alameda county, Cali- 
fornia, and carried on fruit growing and 
general farming until he died in 1882. 
Henderson Luelling was born in Greens- 
boro, N. C., April 23, 1809, and his ances- 
tors were Welsh who removed from Wales 
to North Carolina before the Revolution- 
ary war. His father was a nurseryman 
in North Carolina, and taught his boy 
Henderson how to graft as soon as the 
latter was old enough to whittle. Early 
in 1831 Henderson Luelling removed ta 
Henry county, Indiana, in the eastern part 
of the state, not far from Newcastle, 
and began the nursery business. Soon 
after establishing himself he acquired a 
book containing an account of the Lewis 
and Clark exploring expedition to Ore- 
gon in 1804-06, and the reading of that 
work was what caused him to begin his 
plans to go to Oregon at some future time. 
In 1839 he removed to Iowa and engaged 
in the nursery business, as already in- 
dicated, still cherishing the idea of re- 
moving to Oregon. At length a plan was 
evolved which he began putting into exe- 
cution in 1845, that of making a selec- 
tion of seeds of what he considered the 
