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iobbi I, R. divaricatum, R. gracile, and others; the huckleberries, Vaccinium 
oaespitosum, V. ovalifolium, V. microphyllum, V. parvifolium and others; the 
barberry, Berberis aquilfolium, known as the Oregon grape, now the state 
flower of Oregon; the salal, Gaultheria shallon; the cranberry, Oxycoccus 
palusfris; the juneberry or service berry, Amelanchier alnifolia and A. florida; 
the black haws, Crataegus douglasii and C. Columbiana; the filberts, Corylus 
rostrata and C. californica; the western chinquapin, Castanopsis chrysop- 
hylla, and others of less value. 
The introduction of the first cultivated fruits in this country, in 1824, 
by employees of the Hudson Bay Company, is a pretty story with a touch of 
romance. At a dinner given in London in 1824 to several young men in the 
employ of the Hudson Bay Company bound for the far distant Pacific Coast, 
a young lady at the table beside one of the young gentlemen ate an apple, 
carefully wrapped the seeds in a paper and placed them in his vest pocket 
with the request that when he arrived in the Oregon country, he should 
plant them and grow apple trees. The act was noticed, and in a spirit of 
merriment, other ladies present, from the fruits of the table, put seeds of 
apple, pear, peach and grape in the vest pockets of all the gentlemen. On 
their arrival at the Hudson Bay Fort at Vancouver the young men gave the 
seeds to the Company’s gardener, who planted them in the spring of 1825. 
From these seeds came the trees and vines now growing on the Government 
grounds at the Vancouver Barracks. The Hudson Bay Company had im- 
ported the Catawba Grape, English Gooseberry and a cultivated Strawberry, 
which were fruiting that year. The apple and pear trees, and the grape- 
vines from these seeds are yet annually bearing medium size, fair quality 
fruit on the grounds where planted. 
The Hudson Bay Company had also introduced the first cultivated rose. 
This is now known as the Hudson Bay Rose and is large and red with the 
aroma of the attar of rose. 
Early History and Romance. 
The early history of our fruit growing presents to the student at once 
a most romantic and thoroughly practical matter-of-fact series of interesting 
pictures. It is related of some of the earlier settlers in the Willamette valley 
that nothing more thoroughly and painfully accentuated their lonely, isolated 
condition than the absence of fruit trees on the newly made farms. Half 
the beauty and pleasure that brightens the life of youth and childhood, it is 
not too much to say, is found in the orchard of the old homestead. The 
sight of the trees in blossom, the waiting and watching for the ripe fruit, 
the ingathering of the fruit in the autumn and the storing of it away in bin 
and cellar for use in winter around the ingleside, are all fraught with 
joyous delight and dearest anticipation. 
Then is it any wonder that when some of the early settlers were called 
to southern Oregon, to aid their fellow countrymen in repelling the attacks 
of Indians, and finding there wild plums and grapes, they brought with them 
on their return, roots of the former and cuttings of the latter in the hope 
that these foundlings of the southern forest would take kindly to a more 
