.....and now a brief apple history of the west coast

In 1847, Henderson Luelling, his wife, and eight children came west on the Oregon Trail, bringing a wagon loaded with an assortment of 50 or 60 varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, quince, black walnuts, hickory nuts, gooseberries, currants, and grapes. All told, the wagon had about 700 young plants.

Settling in Milwaukie,Oregon..... Luelling started a nursery. He planted his "traveling orchard," and began grafting trees. By 1853, he had 100,000 trees for sale for buyers from Oregon, Ca and Washington. Next time you are gobbling down that apple pie...say thanks to the Father of the of the west coast apple industry .