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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1889)
WKST SIIOKK. 171 these plums nnd prunes, whether canned or dried, in a uniformly attractive marketable slm Mneh ha leen done in this regard, an will N shown in these notes. The history of prune growing in Oregon, if it were written out in full, would form not only an inter esting study to the hortienltnral world, hut would Im of pregnant interest to the new lieginner and future exM'rimentaliHt. The man thoroughly "up" on thin subject, who will furnish a reliable monograih on it, will confer a hinting licnelit on the state. Some fifteen yearn ago Dr. Cardwell devoted KHt acres, within two and a half miles of the city limits, to the culture of the prune and plum. Highly-live acres of this tract are already planted ami contain .'t,(KKI trirs. The work of planting the remaining fifteen acres is well under way. On an average, his selected rie fruit yields thirty-three and one-third per cent, of dried fruit, except the peach plums, in which the average is less. His product of dried fruit this year amounts to ahoiit thirty tons. In the inception of his enterprise ho met with not only the discouragements and dicup Niintments usual in such cases, hut hail the pleasure of meeting any number of the descendants, seemingly, of Jolt's comforters, who not only predicted failure ami the loss of the money invested in the enterprise, hut ridiculed the very idea of success in his venture. As the Doctor says, "he laughs Irst who laughs last," and his splendid orchard gives him the right to laugh in triumph, lie was not content to plod along and trust to luck, hut, in order to Is- sure that he had the true stock of the prune of commerce, sent to the cde hrated nursery, the largest in the world, of August Itaughman, on the Rhine, and iinirted scions, which he grafted upon native st.s k. Comparing the fruit from the iniMirted wood with that raised on the st.u k in his own orchard, he found that he was right and then went ahead. Much other demonstrative work has Inimi done hy him. tjuite recently he has had the pleasure of Wing assured hy distinguished Kuran poniologists, after they hud inspected the result fr..m his and other orchards, that Oregon fruit could be taken to Kuroc and he sure of king recognized " strong competitor for popular and men ial fv..r with the best F.uro.ean product. Mr. Pluinmcr' ' pericnecH an' of a similar nature Few departments of tl ihihiti.m are n...re at tractive than these two collection to li-ine f.-lk. and certainly none distinctively h-al in their character call forth more admiration and m-re Haltering com ments from visitors fr abroad, than tin- 'l'" of the achieved results of Oreg-.n fruit " " ' the same time recognized a. a sure pr. ph-v ( gal er ami better things to conic A special feature of the fair, and one that attract, a steady throng of interested visitor. '" rt ''al j lery. In accepting contribution for the gallery and ; in arranging them, die art committee wa governed chielly by a desire to hang nothing hut meritorious. i works of art and to give them sulhcicnt room and light ! to show them to the best advantage. An eye was had to the general clVcct as well, and that this Is a pleasing 1 one can Ih readily seen from the accompanying sketch j of a portion of the gallery. The largest and finest of the oil paintings is "Circe," by Marina Vasselon, which ! was exhibited in the Paris Salon In hH. Other works-of art that would attract attention In any gal- lery are "A VeneMan Sunset," by the late Hdward Kssy ; "Oil' the Straits of Fu.a," by ('apt. Cleveland Rockwell ; " lleranca llondii, of Carnu lo Valley," by j Julian liix ; " Incident in the Franco Prussian War," by K. Heme Relic ('our; " Mount II.h." by A Unrr, radically different from the traditional " II.nmIs" that : till our art windows; "The Sculptor and the King," ; by J. IVFonst Itrush; "SI p," by Kug VefUwrk j hoveii ; and a marine sunset seme by Mr Fpey. There is also a tine collet lion of cngrav lugs and etch- ings, one collivtion of which was a heftiest of the late j M S. Iturrell to the Cortland library A.lation. A i number of very excellent water colors are also dis played. The magiiillcent llowers and fruit of Oregon ' oiler the limst jsissihle subject of that kind t' our ; lady artists, and several very excellent (minting" of this nature are on the wall Taken all together, the art gallery is a most interesting Hirtion of lheex. sition A serially i made of the work of the pupil of the ! public sch.sils, and the xvlmeiia of drawing, U'th In cravoii and N'iicil, are most admirable. Near these are the exhibit of photographer, which are wjr large and contain mine of the lim st product i.f the lamera The work of Portland photographic artist is certainly most excellent, and rival that of any city in the eountry In the same gallery I another department, devoted to the handiwork of the alo lu thi the display I very largf and elegant. It would be difficult to i le of a greater arlcty of fancy work than can I seen lo re, or of mater, more taste, ful or more artistic rxe ulmn than thi wrk how It is one of the rvideucr of Mined and cultivated taste that our eastern friend are always, but unrea sonably, urprised t.i And in the "wild and dy West At one end of the west hall I l' lrd Iherligllie r..iiii, where the large engine that upplie .wer to the machinery, the engine that orale the dynamo for producing the rle. trie light that brilliantly II luminale the entire building, and the dy nam. them ee may I "n The are all nbjmti of Interest to isitor ami are not rmtlal factor In lheri .hi The failure of iIik dytiaue4 to maintain (loir