THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
IOI 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition; St. Louis, 1904; two grand prizes, — high- 
est awards; seven gold medals; eighty-four silver medals; thirty-four bronze 
medals. 
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, 1905; one hundred and 
eighteen gold medals, — highest award; one hundred fifty-seven silver medals; 
three hundred and fifty-two bronze medals; and three hundred and ninety-two 
diplomas of honorable mention. 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909; seven grand prizes, — 
highest award; sixteen gold medals; twenty-one silver medals; eighty-two 
bronze medals; five diplomas of honorable mention. 
The award of the Wilder Medal at your biennial meeting, at the Pan- 
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, was a notable event worthy of record; 
the leading fruit-growing sections of America and Canada were competing: 
New York with 2000 plates, Wisconsin with 1600, Missouri with 1200, and 
many others 1000 plates or more, and Oregon 250 plates. 
Some of you will remember the keen competition of that occasion and 
that after two days of close examination and deliberation, your committee 
awarded the Wilder Medal to Oregon. It was quality and not quantity that 
won the Wilder Medal at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. 
This much for what Oregon has done with the old standard fruits. Now 
a word as to what she has done with the new fruits of her own origin. 
Oregon’s New Fruits. 
Oregon has the distinction of adding to the fruit industry two of the 
most attractive cherries yet produced — the Bing and the Lambert. They 
are of the largest size; of first quality; of the best shippers; always 
prize-winners, and now sought for by progressive nurserymen all over 
the world. The Bing, a rich dark black fruit, was a chance seedling 
with Mr. Seth Lewelling who named it for a faithful Chinaman who culti- 
vated and cared for the seedling tree on experimental grounds until it came 
to bearing age. The Lambert, a rich chocolate red fruit, was a chance 
seedling in the orchard of J. H. Lambert; after whom it was named by the 
Oregon Horticultural Society. 
Oregon originated the Clark strawberry, one of the most productive 
varieties and a best shipper. Carload quantities of this fruit are shipped to 
Chicago, New York and other markets annually. The Oregon and the 
Magoon strawberries, two of the largest, most beautiful and most desirable 
table berries, and prize-winners, also originated here. The Dosch, Pacific 
and Willamette prunes are Oregon seedlings. The Dosch prune originated 
with our first walnut grower and promoter, H. E. Dosch, and is of large 
size and first quality. 
We originated the Champion gooseberry, a most vigorous grower, healthy, 
prolific, very large, par-excellence. 
A new and luscious fruit, the Yakimine, which originated in Yakima is 
the result of an apricot crossed with a peach. lit is a fruit of great promise, 
and even now is used in carload lots by the canneries. A large acreage is 
being set. 
