APPLES 65 
SuvMeR Pears—Bartlett, Early Butter. 
AuTuUMN Pears—Seckel, Flemish, Fall 
Butter. 
Winter Pears—Winter Nellis 
Curerrics—Royal Anne, Black Tartar- 
jan, Black Heart, May Duke, Kentish. 
Pracues—Crawford’s Harly, Crawford’s 
Late, Golden Cling. 
Grapes—lIsabelle, Delaware, Concord. 
Also Siberian Crab Apple and Orange 
Quince 
In this connection it may be stated that 
the first peaches in the Willamette valley, 
so far aS now known, were grown from 
pits brought across the plains to Oregon 
in 1844 by Rev Edward Evans Parrish, 
who came from Ohio. 
Greer’s Apple and Pear Seeds 
Ralph C Greer, already mentioned, 
started to Oregon from Knox county, 
Illinois, and deserves a place in connec 
tion with any mention of early fruit 
growing in Oregon—that is, the original 
“Oregon County.” He brought with him 
one bushel of apple seeds and half a 
bushel of pear seeds. These went far 
towards supplying this coast with trees. 
He supplied Luelling with stock and Lu- 
elling supplied him with buds from his 
“Traveling Nursery”; thus both were en- 
abled to furnish cultivated trees in great 
numbers at an early day. 
Whitman Apple Trees 
Regarding the “Whitman apple trees” 
in Walla Walla valley, il is the current 
idea in many quarters that there were 
fruit trees there at an early date, but in 
my opinion there is no foundation for 
that view I have heard it stated that 
Whitman brought apple seeds across the 
plains in 1836. I do not think that was 
so. It is probably true that he brought 
garden seeds of various kinds, as men- 
tion is made of numerous garden products 
—corn, vegetables, wheat, squashes, ete 
—but I have never found any mention 
of fruit growing at the Whitman mis- 
Sion at any time in any one of the 50 or 
more letters written by Mrs. Whitman 
or Dr. Whitman between their arrival 
at the point selected for their mission 
station—Wai-il-at-pu, six miles west of 
the present city of Walla Walla—Decem- 
ber, 18386, and on October, 1847. In a 
letter dated October 22, 1842, Mrs. Whit- 
man alludes to receiving a keg of fresh 
apples from Vancouver, and also ex- 
presses a wish that dried fruit might be 
sent out from the East. On April 2, 1846, 
reference is made by Mrs. Whitman in a 
letter to buying dried berries from Indi- 
ans To my mind these references indicate 
that no apples were grown at the mission. 
Of course it is possible that there might 
have been seedling trees there, secured 
from Fort Vancouver, which had as yet 
not begun to bear, and that it is these 
trees that have been referred to in later 
years. Rev. Cushing Eells acquired the 
Whitman mission site early in 1860, and 
started to that point from Forest Grove, 
Oregon, on March 10, 1860, arriving 
there 16 days later The conditions he 
found are described but no mention is 
made of fruit trees. From the foregoing 
you can readily see why I am in doubt 
about any early apple trees in the vicin- 
ity of the site of the Whitman mission. 
Early Orehards on Puget Sound 
The early orchards in the Puget sound 
basin, that is, prior to 1854, as a rule were 
supplied with stock secured at the Lu- 
elling & Meek nursery at Milwaukee. I 
know of one exception, however, and 
there may be others My father brought 
with him from Illinois a quantity of ap- 
ple seeds, and we arrived at our destina- 
tion, four miles east of Olympia, October 
21, 1853 He removed from his tempo- 
rary location to his permanent home on 
November 9th following The seeds he 
brought were planted in boxes that month 
and set out the following fall in rows, 
and a year later grafted. A nursery was 
established at “Hden Farm,” near Cow- 
litz Landing—(in the vicinity of Toledo, 
Wash., of today)—by Edward D. War- 
bass, in August, 1854. He got his stock 
from Morton M. McCarver’s nursery, two 
miles south of Oregon City, Ore, and Mc- 
Carver got his start from Luelling & 
Meek. In September, 1854, Hugh Patti- 
son began the nursery business on ‘““Wash- 
ington Plains,” six miles east of Steila- 
coom, Pierce county, Washington. He se- 
cured his stock from Henderson and Seth 
ing, Milwaukee. 
Lewelling, Milwau Gro. H. Hires 
