The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15


gon, Idaho, Mon
tana, Utah, and British Columbia in
Canada. e. l.. Smith, of Hood River,
Oregon, is president; G. A. Tonne
son, of Tacoma, is secretary; w. S.
Offner, of Walla Walla, is treasurer.
Each one of the states and the prov
iEce represented in the Association
has a vice president. E. M. Gordon,
CT Seattle, is chairman OF the local
committee. The horticultural editor
of The Ranch has been asked to pre-
pare and read a paper on the topic:
Past Years Experience with the Cod
ling Moth" and has agreed to do so.
Hood River is preparing to make a
fruit display and other important fruit
growing sections are asked to do the
same. Chelan, Yakima and Kittitas
counties can make very fine showing
if the matter is only attended to. Who
will take the lead in each OF these
counties? The counties on Puget
Sound ought to make fine showing.
Such exhibits are educational and do
much good The probabilities are that
awards will be offered for the best
display of fruits, as well as the best
methods of packing. Purchasing mer-
chants are expected to be present and
will doubtless be willing to pay hand
some prices for any samples that may
be sold.
Some grocerymen near where | live
in Seattle have been handling some
arples from our orchard in the YAK
ina valley. These apples were bought
through one of the commission houses
on Western avenue. One of the apples
here referred to is called the Smoke
house" and is an apple of excellent
oualitv. It is not generally known,
so inquiry has been made about thls
fine ample. 1t is quite mistake to
suppose that this is new apple. AS
early as 1852 the American Pomologl-
cal Society listed the Smokehouse as
an apple worthy of trial. In Apples
of New York" the history OF this ap-
pie is given: "Originated with William
Gibbons, Lampeter township, Lancas-
ter county, Pa. 1t took its name from
the fact that the original tree grew
near his smokehouse 1t was brought
TO notice about 1887 by Ashbrldge,
though it had long before been propa-
Gated in a nursery near the LOCALITY
of it's origin 1t is supposed to be
Seeding of the old VandeVere OF Della
ware and Pennsylvania, as it much re-
sembles that variety in fact, Elllott
in 1854 fell into the error Of calling
il identical with the VandeVere. 1t
has been grown more extensively in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania than
il has in New York
This apple, like many another ola
ample has been known under a num-
her of names, such as English Vande-
we're. Gibbons Smokehouse, Millcreek,
Mill-creek Vandevere, Red VandeVere,
etc. 1t is surprising how many syno-
nyms almost any of our old apples
have. The Ben Davis, for instance, mas
been known in some localities under
the following local names: Baltimore
pippin. Baltimore Red, Baltimore Red
Streak, Carolina Red Streak, Funk
houser. Kentucky Pippin, Kentucky
Streak. New York Pippin, Pepin de
New York, Red Pippin, Victoria ZIP
rim and Victoria Red" Much contus'
ion comes from the fact that there are
so many names for the same apple
The American Pathological society
has done much toward helping to eradi
cate this confusion by settling on some
one of the many names by which dir'
ferent apples are known. Generally
the dictum of this society is accepted
as final. But this is not always the
case. In fact, sometimes this veneer
able society has only added to the con
fusion above mentioned by giving some
well known apple name that the pup
lie will not accept. The apple common
ly known as the Mammoth Black Twle
vas thought to have too long a name