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 .
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