The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-09-01
HORTICULTURAL NOTES
BY f. WALDEN

Lewelling very wisely judged that he
could render more valuable assistance
be starting these emigrants in line
of business that has since made Ore
gon famous as the "land of the big
red apple" Some few seeding apples
had been grown in what was then
Oregon territory, but this work of Lew
cling was the beginning of the raising
of grated apples in that vast country.
We may honor the name of John G.
Fremont 1.-The path finder" and that
of Marcus Whitman and his noble wife,
who gave their lives to help the red
man to lead a better life, but this
heroic and far-reaching act of Hender-
son Lewelling should never be for
gotten.
An eastern exchange recently styled
some of the Oregon apples found in
New York as ''copper-plated" fruit.
This was an unjust fling at Oregon ap-
pies and was without foundation. 1t
was claimed that the apple scab was
so bad that the fruit had to be con-
stantly sprayed with some form of
copper sulphate and that the result
was that at picking time these apples
were cODDGI- LII llC Ill ~
place, there are many sections in the
northwest where there is no apple
scab both in Oregon and Washington.
In the next place where apple scab
does exist there is no such thing as
constant spraying with the Bordeaux
mixture. If apples were so sprayed
during the summer they would at pick
ing time be as rusty as an old nall
and would be utterly unfit to sell in
any market. Our best informed men
recommend but two sprayings for the
apple scab, one before the leaves open
and the other soon after, and so far
as the editor of this department knows,
no one goes beyond these sprayings.
If any misguided man should spray
all summer not living man would
ever take his apples to ship to New
York So we conclude that this fling
at Oregon apples, which may also in
clude those from Washington, as cop
per-plated' was without foundation and
based on transformation.
1t seems that what was said in these
columns about the Oregon exhibit OF
last years apples has met with strenu-
Gus objection by Brother Williamson,
of the Oregon Agriculturist and Rural
Northwest, and w. K. Newell who has
charge of the state exhibit for Ore
gon. l regret that my reference to
their apples has offended these eX-
cellent men. | wrote as the matter
appeared to me. | was disappointed
with the Oregon state exhibit, with
few exceptions, and SO expressed my
self | could not in justice take back
what | wrote Had I thought of wound
ing the feelings of these good men l
might have expressed my disappoint-
ment in some other form and wish |
had if in this way | could have been
true to my convictions. | realize how
easily we may be mistaken and may
not see things as others do. L am
human and if these good people can
not see this as | do | must crave that
they conclude that l erred in judgment
and not that l was guilty OF "unkind
and untrue statements about the Ore
gon exhibit" | made no allusion to any
ones motives, but thought that there
might have been an oversight in get
ting ready for the exposition. II my
friend Newell or anybody else wants
to discuss my motives in what | said
he can have that all to himself.
much prefer to think that he stopped
over" and said more than he intended,
rather than to accuse me of unkindness
and untruthfulness. There is none OF
that in me eff the court understands
herself, and she thinks she do" I refer
the readers Of this paper to my desire
to do Oregon justice, even at the ex-
pense of Washington, to what | said
in a previous number of this paper,
and in fact to our files for three years
past. Parents are so fond of their
own children and so dote over them
that they can not see their defects as