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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
long remember and cherish, for it should prove the finishing 
touches to their education. 
Eastern nurserymen who make the trip for the first time 
will in all probability be overcome, wonderstruck, with the 
immensity of the Great Northwest and some of the hardships 
that are being overcome in the reclamation of lands in parts 
of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. On his trip across the 
continent he will see first where the fights are now being 
waged, but as the train gets closer to Portland, it will wind in 
and through fertile valleys where the visitor will at first be of 
the opinion that the orchards were prepared for his coming, 
but as other valleys are penetrated and there will be found an 
exacting sameness in the care of the ground and the trees, 
the truth will finally dawn on the visitor that he at last is in 
the midst of the Great Northwest—the home of the big red 
apple and then he will realize perhaps for the first time why 
Northwest Apple growers receive more for a single box of 
apples than can be realized by many Eastern growers for a 
barrel of the forbidden fruit. He will see that the apple 
grower of the Northwest alone is responsible for the reputa¬ 
tion and faultlessness of his fruit and that the grower is not 
receiving more for his fruit than is deserved—but rather is 
receiving a return for his apples which he, the grower, makes 
possible by hard work and scientific knowledge. 
One hears more of apples in connection with the North¬ 
west than perhaps any other fruit, but these conditions are 
fast changing. The time is not far distant when Olympia, 
the capital of Washington and the district tributary to it will 
be known from Coast to Coast as a sm^l fruits country, to 
say nothing of pears, for which this district is especially well 
adapted. 
The Easterner, if on his return trip stops off at Olympia 
or any of the cities tributary to it, will learn that when the 
growers of berries found that no matter how fast an express 
was put on between the Coast and St. Paul that berries would 
not withstand the 99 hour journey, they did not give us grow¬ 
ing berries or agree to let the East want for the variety of 
berries which can only be raised in the Northwest, but 
through the citizens of Olympia induced the National Can¬ 
ning Company to erect its plant here and now the fruits of 
the soil are shipped East from this section of the Northwest 
on very much the same principle that Grand Opera Music is 
recorded on disks in New York and sent West. 
Grand Opera is demanded by Westerners, but Grand 
Opera cannot afford to come so far west and so the voice is 
canned and sent. In the other instance Northwest fruit is 
demanded by the Easterner, but the journey over the steel 
rail which binds this continent fast is too long a one and so the 
perishable Northwest fruits, every bit as rare to the Easterner 
as Grand Opera is to the Westerner, is canned and shipped 
East. 
Of late the huckleberry industry has grown to enormous 
proportions in this section of Southwest Washington. Until 
the coming of the cannery this fruit was allowed to grow wild 
and then perish on the bushes, but last year the National 
Canning Company of Olympia paid more than $20,000 for 
wild huckleberries and for the first time in the history of 
the State this fruit is now being cultivated and encouraged. 
Hundreds of acres of Loganberries are also being set out 
and at the present time it is impossible to get plants. 
Of late years the grape industry has grown to enormous 
proportions on the Islands and main-land between Olympia 
and Tacoma, the soil being especially adapted for the growing 
of many of the most high priced varieties. 
The visiting delegate perchance will also learn that last 
year the State of Washington imported over $7,000,000 worth 
of dairy products despite the fact that the dairy business in 
Washington has increased more than 25 per cent within the 
last two years. 
Then the visitors will realize that what first appeared to be 
a stage with the settings thereon especially for this advent, is 
nothing more than a vast field of opportunity, which though 
producing millions of dollars of wealth annually has not yet 
hardly been scratched, and this will be the message he will 
carry home from the land of the big red apple. 
Detroit, Wash. A. Eckert. 
BUDDING LILACS 
A correspondent would like to hear from any nurseryman 
who has had experience in budding Lilacs on the Amoor 
River Privet and what success was had, also what Privet 
stock can be used which is better than California Privet. 
Any readers being experienced along this line will confer a 
favor by addressing the Editor of the National Nursery¬ 
man. 
Agawam, Mass., March 13, 1913. 
National Nurseryman Pub. Co., 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sirs: 
Inclosed please find $1.00 to renew my subscription to the National 
Nurseryman. I certainly think that I get full value for my subscrip¬ 
tion price. Yours truly, 
C. W. Atwater. 
“THE MONTHLY SUMMARY OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE” FOR JANUARY, 1913, GIVES THE FOLLOWING REPORT OF 
IMPORTS OF PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES. 
ARTICLES 
JANUARY — 
SEVEN MONTlIS ENDING JANUARY—■ 
1912 
1913 
1911 
1912 1 1913 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Plants, trees, shrubs and vines: 
Fruit plants, tropical and semi- 
tropical, for propagating 
purposes^.free. . 
4,854 
55,738 
94,366 
1,217 
29,821 
126,043 
16,795 
1,663,080 
631,043 
1,612 
1,776,898 
713,734 
Bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, 
cultivated for their flowers or 
foliage.M. . dut. . 
All other.dut. . 
8,834 
2,696 
1,485,667 
495,153 
207,994 
282,976 
T otal. 
154,958 
157,081 
1,980,820 
2,310,918 
2,492,244 
