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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Louis and the older private estates. The educational ad¬ 
vantages to the landscape gardener and nurseryman of 
such places are inestimable, in fact to all who are inter¬ 
ested in trees. 
Of extreme interest in this respect are many of the 
old colonial estates, especially in the south. A study of 
the trees around the colonial mansions of the south will 
reveal the fact that the proprietors were great tree lov¬ 
ers. 
At a period when travel was necessarily difficult and 
slow it is surprising how many kinds were imported 
from abroad and successfully planted. A trip along 
the by ways of the states of Maryland, Virginia and the 
Carolinas are well worth while, just to study the old 
gardens and see the box, yews and such like plants that 
were set out over a century ago. 
These plantings are in many instances proving to be 
more enduring monuments to the early settlers of the 
country, than those they left behind in wood and stone. 
QUESTION AND ANSWER COLUMN 
Kingsville (Baltimore Co.), Md. 
October 30, 1921. 
The National Nureryman, 
Hatboro, Penna. 
Gentlemen: 
Will you kindly advise me through your valuable 
paper what variety of cherry is best used for budding 
and grafting, Japanese cherries (flowering) and Weep¬ 
ing cherries? Also where can I purchase stock for same? 
I want small plants for budding. What thickness would 
you advise buying, and tall good set stems for grafting- 
weeping form? Thanking you, I am, 
H. J. H. 
The stock used for budding and grafting the flowering 
cherries upon is Prunus avium, known to the trade as 
mazzard stocks. 
You will find a source of supply in the advertising 
columns. 
As you wish to get standard stocks for top working 
with Japanese Weeping cherries it would be well to 
write to those offering Mazzard stocks, tell them what 
you want, then they will no doubt quote you. 
The stocks for top working with weeping forms should 
be 6 feet high and possibly % to 1-inch caliper. 
WANTED, CLINGING VINES 
With all our skill and triumphs in plant breeding, 
there are some things we have not done that would be 
well worth doing if possible. Doesn’t it strike one as 
strange, for instance, that no progress seems to have 
been made in producing new self-clinging Climbing 
Plants? Ampelopsis Veitchii is still about the only 
climbing plant, apart from Ivies, that can be grown on 
a wall without the necessity for continual use of nails 
and shreds. What would a good flowering Climber of 
self-clinging habit and rapid growth be worth to the 
Trade? Is it a case of having tried and failed to produce 
anything of this character, or is it that nobody has set 
himself to the task? When we look at some glorious 
varieties and races of plants that have been evolved 
from most meagre material, we may be encouraged to 
hope that useful additions to our self-clinging Climbers 
would not prove to be beyond the range of possibility.— 
The Horticultural Trade Journal. 
MONTHLY CROP REPORTER 
Estimated Farm Value October 15 
Apples Peaches Pears 
per per per per 
State bushel barrel bushel bushel 
1921 1920 1921 1920 1921 1920 1921 1920 
Cts. Cts. Dols. Dols. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. 
Maine . 125 133 4.00 3.50 . 210 
New Hampshire . 180 160 4.55 4.30 . 250 190 
Vermont . 195 144 6.00 4.25 . 275 200 
Massachusetts . 240 160 6.75 4.00 . 300 200 
Rhode Island . 250 190 6.90 6.50 . 225 300 
Connecticut . 160 115 5.10 4.00 . 200 125 
New York . 180 65 5.23 3.15 325 175 215 145 
New Jersey . 210 78 6.50 2.25 . 150 130 
Pennsylvania . 220 85 6.00 2.55 325 220 200 160 
Delaware . 225 80 6.00 3.25 . 
Maryland . 171 98 6.00 2.62 . 
Virginia . 180 85 7.20 3.25 . 175 100 
West Virginia . 278 110 8.00 3.25 300 200 300 180 
North Carolina . 195 52 7.25 1.05 265 181 153 149 
South Carolina. 128 176 
Georgia . 140 170 4.50 6.66 . 125 230 
Florida .. 300 . 150 
Ohio . 220 120 5.95 3.45 315 205 217 145 
Indiana . 223 147 7.34 3.97 375 257 189 115 
Illinois . 248 159 7.76 4.64 296 282 215 108 
Michigan . 170 70 5.15 2.40 330 220 160 130 
Wisconsin . 238 146 7.50 4.40 . 295 160 
Minnesota . 200 180 6.00 4.20 . 
Iowa . 302 167 9.20 5.33 . 
Missouri . 250 155 7.90 4.90 . 
North Dakota. 
South Dakota . 350 285 . 
Nebraska . 275 187 . 
Kansas . 235 230 7.00 7.30 . 275 230 
Kentucky . 195 121 6.50 3.17 300 230 240 144 
Tennessee . 200 115 6.70 3.50 250 175 190 160 
Alabama . 185 180 7.85 6.25 200 150 142 174 
Mississippi . 228 194 8.83 5.50 . 132 186 
Louisiana. 2 29 175 
Texas. 190 300 
Oklahoma . 200 200 . 
Arkansas . 260 180 . 160 220 
Montana. 300 275 
Wyoming . 300 285 . 
Colorado . 170 169 175 . .. 220 218 
New Mexico . 150 210 . 
Arizona . 300 300 . 
Utah. 115 140 . 
Nevada . 240 230 . 
Idaho . 125 145 175 ... 200 300 
Washington . 160 135 .. 170 150 
Oregon . 125 140 250 ... 225 175 
California . 150 150 180 225 180 240 
United States . 196.4 125.9 6.13 3.74 244.3 244.2 186.4 184.2 
H. F. Hillenmeyer & Sons, Lexington, Ky., have had 
a very satisfactory business this fall and if the present 
favorable weather conditions last it will be the best they 
have ever experienced. 
