The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-06-11
Cherry Growing ON this Coast.

1.-The Royal Ann. She ,s not leg
itimate queen, pOmologically speaking
In fact, the name does not appear in
the lists Of cherry royalties except
upon this coast In newer regions ot
the earth which have drawn names
from ouI coast. For this cherry, re.
versing the course OF favors among
men, fell into royalty, not from 1t.
1t was In this way, as the story goes
The pioneer introduoers of grated
fruit tress upon this coast crossed the
plains with wagon load OF little
trees set in earth In a wagon box,
watering them as streams we're crossed
and keeping them alive and growing
en- route quite as we'll az they expect
ed to. But when almost at their des-
tination In western Oregon, and
climbing steep hill with their out
tit, the tailboard of the wagon gave
out and trees and earth plid to the
ground in great mixup. The trees
we're put back as we'll as possible, but
1t was not possible to get all the trees
in exactly the same places they ocou-
pied before and opposite their names,
which had been written on the side
of the wagon box. Thus 1t came
about that though the trees grew well
and were successfully trsnsplanted
from their tourist berths to Oregon
coil, their names we're lost. One
cherry showed peculiar value hut II
had been disconnected from Its name.
Pioneer gallantly concluded that sc
good thing must be a lady, and 90
they called it Royal Ann. After a
time, of course, the identity Of the
variety as determined by comparison
with later introductions which had
brought their proper names With
them, and though for forty years II
has been known that Royal Ann ID
Napoleon Bgarreau, the real Napol-
con Of cherry finance on this coast Is
still masking In petticoats as Royal
Ann and probably always will, for she
holds the throne on this coast, than
which there is no greater sweet cherry
territory in the world.
"Royal Ann ,reigns by virtue OF
commercial suitability. There are
two great lines of cherry suitability
Cherries to eat as they grow, and
cherries to eat from out-glass dish
tIled from a tin can. To eat as Ii
grows Royal Ann is not delicious; 1t
lie too hard and cold beauty; but,
having been processed In the can, and
lying afterwards la cut glass In a clear
syrup, It's pallid beauty is charming
and Its flavor adequate. Though
there are other white cherries which
are rivals OF osnner's flavor, none has
yet displaced Napoleon Ann.
"Flavor is, however, rather fickle
thing 10 cherries, as elsewhere When
supply of red and black cherries is
little above the fresh eating aud ship
ping demand, the price may fall bel
low cost OF picking and packing, be-
cause Gamers can use but few OF
them. When the Gamers are keen the
prices of their favorites may 90 to
twice the current prizes of the dark
varieties; when the Gamers are shy,
the situation may be exactly reversed,
and Royal Ann may drop TO half the
price OF the test blacks for though
Royal Ann goes for shipping, it has
such small local eating demand that
depression owing to Gamers attitude
cannot be cured. Last week this con-
dition prevailed; the blacks were so
per cent ahead OF the whites. This
may be reversed even before tbe
present season ends, although there is
OF course chance that the passion