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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE, 1913 js 
OREGON 
By F. H. STANTON, Hood River, Oregon 
PORTLAND, OREGON AND MOUNT HOOD 
Oregon will interest every nurseryman, his wife and the 
ehildren. The state is of great historieal interest and is 
an important seetion for fruit growing. 
The Hudson Bay Company of England early in the last 
eentury located a number of trading posts in the Northwest, 
for the purpose of controlling the fur industry. In 1842, 
through the heroic efforts of Jos. Meek and a few other 
enthusiastic citizens of the United States, assembled at a 
mass meeting in this territory, which was called for the 
purpose of deciding whether the tendtory should belong to 
England or the United States. By a small majority it was 
decided in favor of the United States. 
The State of Oregon with its early .settlers is responsible 
for the great country then known as the Oregon country 
and now known as the states of Oregon, Washington, 
Idaho, and Montana. 
