Brief History of Early Horticulture in Oregon
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The Italian prune, German prune, the Petite d'Agen, Coe's Golden Drop, and all other varieties — just such fruit as we had been growing for these va- rieties — thus settling the matter of varieties beyond dis- pute. Whereupon, from 1871 to 1881, I set eighty acres to orchard near Portland ; six thousand prunes and plums, one thousand Royal Ann and Black Republican cherries, fifteen hundred Bartlett pears, five hundred Winter Nellis, and other pears and wintier apples.
This, I am told, was the f...irst commercial prune orchard on the coast. In 1876 I built a three-ton box drier, dried several tons of pitted peach-plums, sold at sixteen, cents per pound in fifty-pound boxes. The first yield of prunes dried in 1876 brought twelve cents and for some years did not drop below nine cents.
It was in August, 1853, in the then little village of Portland, we met our first surprise in the fruit product of Oregon. A small basket of peach-plums had attracted a crowd of fruit-hungry admirers. They were handed out, Dr.
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The Italian prune, German prune, the Petite d'Agen, Coe's Golden Drop, and all other varieties — just such fruit as we had been growing for these va- rieties — thus settling the matter of varieties beyond dis- pute. Whereupon, from 1871 to 1881, I set eighty acres to orchard near Portland ; six thousand prunes and plums, one thousand Royal Ann and Black Republican cherries, fifteen hundred Bartlett pears, five hundred Winter Nellis, and other pears and wintier apples.
This, I am told, was the f...irst commercial prune orchard on the coast. In 1876 I built a three-ton box drier, dried several tons of pitted peach-plums, sold at sixteen, cents per pound in fifty-pound boxes. The first yield of prunes dried in 1876 brought twelve cents and for some years did not drop below nine cents.
It was in August, 1853, in the then little village of Portland, we met our first surprise in the fruit product of Oregon. A small basket of peach-plums had attracted a crowd of fruit-hungry admirers. They were handed out, Dr.
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