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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
vou can buy three city blocks for around $200,000,000, and a 
new building 100 stories could be put up—a little thing like 
that wouldn’t stop theorists. 
The stock is mostly compressed in the cases by machinery. 
Does any sane man think that the inspectors could ever get 
the same stock back into the same cases or bales ? Of course, 
it wouldn’t matter that the varieties were mixed and re¬ 
packed in Government style; for the-stock would be as dead 
as Caesar before it was released. Would any Ameriean 
Nurservman pay two cents on the dollar for such stock, and 
would any French finn ship stock to go through this farce 
unless he had the cash first? 
And what good would such a law do? Would it benefit 
the nurserymen, florists, fruit growers, faimers, or the men 
in the street? What good does this official inspection do 
anyway? In my opinion, the only good such a law would do 
would be to provide some new fat jobs for inspectors and to 
give me the ehance to take a year’s vacation. 
New York. McFIutchison & Co. 
FRUITS AND NUTS IN THE FOREIGN TRADE OF 
THE UNITED STATES 
Exports of fruits and nuts from the United States aggregated more 
than $200,000,000 in the last twelve years, reaching their h'ghest record 
in the calendar year just ended, with a total of $29,000,000, or more 
than three times as much as a decade earher. The foregoing sentence 
summarizes the results cf a cempilatien just prepared by the Bureau of 
vStatist’CS, Department cf Commerce and Labor, suggested by the large 
exports cf fruits and nuts in January of the present year, which aggre¬ 
gated $2,537,432, or 50% in excess of those of the preceding January, 
giving premise that the high record exports of fruits and nuts last year 
will be exceeded by those of 1912. 
Not only arc the exports of fruits and nuts increasing, but their 
growth is far more rapid than that of imports under that head. In 
1901, imports were more than twice as much as exports; last year they 
were but 50% more than the experts of similar articles. The move¬ 
ments in each at intervals since 1901 are shown in the following table: 
Imports and Exports of Fruits and Nuts 
Calendar Year Imports Expoits 
1901 . $20,177,802 $ 8,279,213 
1904 . 24,385,220 17,992,719 
1907 . 40,455,067 I5T99,5«5 
I9II . 44,164,650 29,153,123 
The principal exports of fruits and nuts in the calendar year, 1911, 
consisted of apples, $9,000,000; prunes, $4,500,000; oranges, $3,000,000; 
canned fruits, $3,750,000; raisins and other dried grapes, $1,333,000; 
pears, $750,000; peaches, $500,000; and peanuts, a little over $250,000. 
The leading imports under the head of fruits and nuts in 
1911 included bananas, $14,750,000, or over one-third the total; 
walnuts, $4,666,000: almonds, $3,250,000; lemons, $3,000,000; grapes, 
$2,333,000; cccoanuts and copra, each about $2,000,000; olives, 
$1,500,000; and pineapples, figs, and filberts, each about $1,000,000. 
These figures are exclusive of $2,500,000 worth of pineapples shipped 
into continental United vStates from Hawaii and $2,250,000 worth of 
oranges, phieapplcs, and other fruits and nuts shipped from Porto Rico 
last year. 
The distribution cf exports and the sources of imports of fruits and 
nuts are shown in the December number of the Summary of Commerce 
and Finance, recently issued by the Bureau of Statistics. Uur exported 
apples, dried, go chiefly to Germany and Netherlands, those green or 
ripe mostly to the United Kingdom; dried apricots, chiefly to Germany, 
England, France, and Netherlands, and oranges, nearly all to Canada. 
American prunes are e.xported in large quantities to Germany, Canada, 
and the United Kingdom, other European countries being also important 
markets for this and various other fruits of domestic production. 
Our imported bananas are derived chiefly from the Central American 
States and Jamaica, and smaller quantities from Cuba and Colombia. 
Greece supplies practically all the 35,000,000 pounds of currants 
imported, and European Turkey the preponderating share of the 
approximately 20,000,000 pounds of figs and dates, respectively. 
Spain is the sole important source of imported grapes, of which nearly 
2,000,000 cubic feet were imported last year. Italy holds a like position 
with reference to lemons, all but 250,000 pounds out of 130,250,000 
pounds imported being from that country. Spain, Greece, and Italy, 
are, in the order named, the leading sources of imported olives. Despite 
the increasing domestic production, considerable quantities of oranges 
are still being imported from Jamaica, Mexico, Central America, Japan 
and Italy. Cuba supplies nearly all the imported pineapples; Spain 
over half the imported raisins, with Asiatic Turkey and Russia also 
important sources of supply. Europe, chiefly Spain, Italy, and France, 
supplies most of our imported almonds; the British West Indies, most 
of the cocoanuts; the Philippines, French Oceania, and the Straits 
Settlements, most of the copra; Brazil, practically all the cream nuts; 
Japan, Spain, France, the Dutch East Indies, and China, most of the 
peanuts; and France and Italy, most of the walnuts imported into the 
country. 
Catalogues Received 
Youngers & Company, Geneva, Neb. Bulletin No. 3. 
Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y. Bulletin No. 5. 
Yager Nursery Company, Fremont, Neb. Surplus list for spring. 
C. R. Burr & Company, Manchester, Conn. Special wholesale list. 
Bulletin No. 3. 
C. G. Curtis, Callicoon, N. Y. A very neat catalogue of native 
plants in carload lots. 
The Mt. Carmel Forestry & Nursery Company, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
Catalogue of Forest Trees. 
Conard & Jones Company, West Grove. Penn. Trade list of Roses, 
Gannas, Shrubs, and Miscellaneous Plants. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. Novelty Circular, advertising 
the St. Regis Everbearing Raspberry, in the form of a Night Letter. 
Kallen & Ltinneman, Boskoop, Holland. Catalogue of Plants and 
Nursery Stock, for the general wholesale trade. Prices in this catalogue 
are quoted in American currency. 
A. E. Robinson Company, Lexington, Mass. Handbook of Trees 
and Plants. Profusely illustrated, an attraction on every page. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala. Bulletin No. i, 
March 15. 
Fraser Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala. Surplus List, March 
14th. 
Horsford’s Nurseries, Charlotte, Vt. 1912 Catalogue. 
Chase Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala. Bulletin No. 3, Feb. 20th. 
E. W. Wooster, Junction Fruit Farm, Ellsworth, Me. Blackberry 
Plants. 
Peter Schott, Knittlesheim, Germany. “Forest Seeds and Forest 
Trees.” 
Rockmont Nursery, Boulder, Colo. D. M. Andrews. General 
Catalogue for 1912. 
Winfield Nursery Co., Winfield, Kans. Wholesale price list. Bul¬ 
letin No. I for Spring, 1912. 
The Wm. H. Moon Company, Morrisville, Penna. “Moon’s hardy 
trees and plants for every place and purpose.” 
Herbert Jackson, Portland, Me. Wholesale trade list of Hardy 
Evergreens, Deciduous Trees, Shrubs and Vines, etc. 
The Continental Nurseries, Franklin, Mass. High Grade Stock at 
Rock Bottom Prices. 
Chanute Nurseries, Chanute, Kans. Surplus and want list. 
Fremont Nursery, Fremont, Ohio. Catalogue of Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Roses and Plants. 
Willowdale Nurseries, Kennert Square, Penna. Wholesale trade list. 
The Morris Nursery Co., West Chester, Penna. Trade list. 
J. H. Skinner & Co., N. Topeka, Kans. Wholesale price list. 
Clinton Falls Nursery Co., Owatonna, Minn. Surplus list Bulletin 3. 
Thos. Meehan & Sons, Dresher, Penna. Trade list. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. Catalogue of Fruit and Farm 
Seeds. 
Rosedale Nurseries, Tarrytown, N. Y. Wholesale trade list. 
Stark Bros. Nurseries & Or. Co., Louisiana, Mo. Condensed Stark 
Year Book. 
D. Hill Nursery Co. Inc., Dundee, Ills. 1912 Catalogue and Plant¬ 
ing Guide. Also their wholesale catalogue. 
Leesley Bros. Nurseries, Chicago, Ills. Wholesale catalogue for 
Spring, 1912. ■ 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. General Catalogue. 
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