THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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ever before. There will not be the demand for our 
meats, for our wheat and beef eattle do not pay too great 
a dividend at present. 
From information from Washington I gathered thesesta- 
tistics, that in the last eleven months we have imported of 
Almond nuts shelled 12,675.282 pounds, not shelled 
2,785,127 pounds. Of Filberts not shelled 9,715,254 
pounds, shelled 1,078,391 pounds. Of Walnuts not shell¬ 
ed 22,205,389 pounds, shelled 12,742,781 pounds. This 
makes a total of imported nuts 61,201,224 pounds. This 
point is made to show that the United States needs a few 
million more pounds of pecans than she is growing. 
There is more publicity to the southern grown pecan today 
than ever before. There are more organized selling agen¬ 
cies and more large crops sold today than ever before by 
this time. The pecan growers of the South are taking ad¬ 
vantage of the many shoals hit by the other fruit growers 
and profiting from the successful Georgia Fruit Growers’ 
Exchange, the Walnut Growers’ Exchange, and the Cit¬ 
rus Growers’ Exchange, of both California and Florida, 
and they have their best men formulating plans so as to 
aid the growers in securing remunerative prices for their 
products. 
The improved pecan industry looked good in the begin¬ 
ning, looks better at the present, and looks best for the 
future. 
SEED IMPORTATION ACT AMENDED 
The seed importation act of August, 24, 1912, prohibits 
the importation into the United States of those seeds sub¬ 
ject to the act when they are adulterated or contain 3 per 
cent, or more of weed seeds, or when clover and alfalfa 
seed contains more than approximately 90 seeds of dod¬ 
der per pound. 
This act was amended on August 11, 1916, by includ- 
ng the seed of rye grass and vetch in addition to those 
seeds enumerated in the original act and by prohibiting 
the importation of seeds which contain less than 65 per 
cent, of pure live seeds, except that the seed of Kentucky 
blue grass and the seed of Canada blue grass may be im¬ 
ported when it contains 50 per cent, or more of live pure 
seed. The amendment fixing a minimum quality for im¬ 
ported seed is intended to keep out of the United States 
seed of low germination as well as seed containing large 
proportions of chaff, both of which have been imported 
in large quantities in recent years. 
The regulations for the enforcement of the seed impor¬ 
tation act published at Treasury Decisions No. 35363 
on May 6, 1915, and as Service and Regulatory An¬ 
nouncements, Bureau of Plant Industry, No. 2, May, 
1915, are being revised to conform with these amend¬ 
ments, and it is expected that they will be promulgated 
to be in effect on and after November 1, 1916. 
CLINGING VINES 
Nurserymen are ofen asked to recommend the best 
clinging vines for walls. In reality there is not very 
much choice. The one vine that can always be de¬ 
pended on is the Ampelopsis Veitchii, popularly known 
as the Boston Ivy. The Ampelopsis Virginica, or Vir¬ 
ginia Creeper does not adhere so closely to the wall and 
unless the stone work is rough or it can drape over a 
cornice, it is liable to become detached and is not nearly 
so good. 
The English Ivy is the best evergreen vine and is to be 
seen covering walls of a large area in the latitude of 
Philadelphia and south, but it is rather difficult to get it 
to climb on a wall with a southern exposure. The 
walls get too hot and the small tendrils will not adhere 
to it. In starting the English Ivy, and in fact any of the 
clinging vines, it is better to either cut the tops back and 
let them make a fresh start right from the ground up or 
else peg the tops along the base of the wall so that the 
new shoots can adhere to the wall surface from the 
ground up, as however carefully they are nailed or ar¬ 
tificially fastened to the walls, there is always some 
movement and it is not an easy matter to get the vines 
started, and even when they do start there is always a 
loose portion of the old stem not properly attached. 
Euonymus radicans is sometimes suggested as a good 
clinging vine. It is to be recommended for low walls, 
bases and copings, but is hardly to be recommended 
where height is expected, as it is very unusual to see it 
get more than eight or ten feet high, and being some¬ 
what subject to Euonymus scale, it is objectionable on 
that account, as when once an old plant is infested it is 
rather difficult to treat. 
A somewhat rare clinging vine is the Hydrangea scan- 
dens or Climbing Hydrangea. This, however, is very 
uncertain in its growth, but when it does get a position 
that suits it, it is remarkably free, making as much as 
eight and ten feet in a year. There are several plants 
in the vicinity of Philadelphia, covering the sides of two 
and three story houses, and it is remarkably pretty, es¬ 
pecially in the spring when the tender green of the fo¬ 
liage is unusually attractive. 
It does not flower while it is growing freely, but has 
somewhat the habit of the English Ivy when the growth 
becomes bunchy and it cannot climb any more, it will 
flower very freely. The flowers are white and flat, but 
it is the color of the foliage and pleasing habit that is its 
greatest attraction. 
It can be grown either from layers or from cuttings 
made from half ripened wood put in gentle bottom heat 
during August. 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO. BUY ANOTHER FARM 
An important real estate transaction was the sale of 
the D. P. Smith farm to the Jackson & Perkins Company. 
This is one of the finest farms in this vicinity and has 
been owned in the Smith family since pioneer days. It 
is located about three miles southwest of Newark in the 
vicinity of another of the Jackson & Perkins Company 
farms. It will be used in the propagaton of roses and 
nursery stock by the Jackson & Perkins Company. The 
farm consists of 170 acres. 
