This is one of the big years in apricots and the fruit is really of larger size and 
better quality than normal. Much attention continues in regard to the offering of 
the "Champion” apricot which is being distributed to growers. It grows unusually 
large fruit of long-keeping quality and excellent flavor. In the picture Florence 
McDonald of the Oregon Nursery Company is shown with fruit going 9 V 2 inches for 
four apricots. The parent tree is in the Wenatchee country. 
Oregon Journal, July 12, 1940. (Fruit from the Lincoln Wheeler orchard at 
Scappoose, Oregon.) 
Perfection tree planted in spring 
of 1937, now bearing a heavy 
crop. 
