Old Apple Tree
The Old Apple Tree was planted by the Hudson Bay Company. The seeds came
all the way from London in a pocket of a Hudson Bay officer named Lt. Aemilius
Simpson. He was at a dinner party when one of the ladies heard he was going
to Fort Vancouver. As a joke she gave him two apple seeds and said, "Plant
them." When he was at a Fort Vancouver dinner party he told the gardener to plant
them. He then planted them. The seeds
became apple trees. One year the Columbia River flooded really bad and
the guards had to cut them down. When they came to the last tree, the soldiers
saw a nest and said, "I will leave this one until they can fly."
He forgot about the tree and the tree is still standing today, the oldest
apple tree in this territory.
