68 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
It makes a difference when a young 
man is planting an orchard for commer- 
cial purposes on which he expects to de- 
pend in the future for his living, and 
for a competence in old age, whether that 
orchard has to be renewed every quarter 
of a century, or whether it will live a 
hundred years. 
L. V. McWhorter, a writer of Indian 
history, says: 
“Klickitat Peter is about 80 years old: 
bought those trees on White Salmon at 
$2.50 per dozen, planted them 35 years 
ago. Planted 1877.” 
It makes a difference in the choice of 
a location whether a man feels that if he 
plants an orchard he ean gather fruit 
when he is old and that it will provide 
for his comfort, and that his children and 
grandchildren may gather fruit from the 
same orchard. 
Now let us study the age of this or- 
chard by comparison, for it is by com- 
parisons that we often get more correct 
views. We have here an orchard that 
was planted by Klickitat Peter in 1877. 
It was planted under conditions where 
there was sufficient moisture and soil 
Substance to furnish it food; it was 
planted on land where there was seepage 
from the higher lands above and beyond, 
and where the roots of the trees could 
get sufficient moisture. Because of this 
natural seepage or sub-irrigation there 
had been growing for centuries, perhaps, 
considerable crops of grass each year that 
rotted on the surface of the land and fur- 
nished sufficient humus. While it is true 
Wife of Klickitat Peter and One of His Old Apple Trees, 
