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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Stock, in which stock can be shipped out, is even more limited, 
as everyone who has bought throughout the entire year wants to 
plant during a few weeks in the early spring, or in the case of a 
limited number of things, two or three weeks in the fall. 
From all of this it is very evident to anyone who stops to 
think that the grower of nursery stock has his problem. The 
buying public as a whole has not taken these matters into con¬ 
sideration merely because it has not been informed concerning 
them. Too many buyers take the attitude that the nurserymen 
whose orders have been piling up for six or eight months should 
be able to get out an order as promptly as the corner grocery 
store, which is making deliveries fifty-two weeks in the year. 
All this has led to an impatient dissatisfaction on the part of 
many buyers which would not have existed had the facts been 
realized. 
CELASTRUS ARTICULATUS 
Two incidents last December suggested the thought of 
great possibilities in Celastrus articulatas as a popular 
ornamental plant. 
The first was a lady inquiring where she could procure 
some fruiting branches of the Ritter Sw^eet for indoor 
decoration, as it was the only berried plant she knew 
that held its fruit for any length of time when cut and 
brought into the house. 
The second one was the sight of a plant grown in stan¬ 
dard form and literally covered with its orange scarlet 
fruit. 
The Ritter Sw^eet, both the Celaslrus scandens, the 
American Ritter Sweet, and the Celastrus arliculatiis, 
Japanese Rittersw eet, are both trailing plants, or shrubby 
vines that form thick woody stems with age, like the 
Wistaria and it is only necessary to keep them staked* 
and pruned to grow them in any form desired. 
It would he w orth w bile for some enterprising growler 
to line out a good stock of young plants in the nursery 
rows, prune them to single stems, tie them to good 
straight stakes, some of them could he twisted around 
the stakes so as to get a corkscrew effect to the stem 
when the plants could stand alone, as they developed 
prune hack to form heads from two to five feet from the 
ground, covered with their brilliant colored fruit, they 
should he ready sellers at good prices around the Christ¬ 
mas holidays. 
EXPORTS OF APPLES FROM UNITED STATES 
The exports of apples, green or ripe, from the United 
States during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, wau’e 
as follows, by countries of destination: 
Country. 
Barrels. 
Value. 
Denmark . 
168 
<1^1,279 
France . 
5 
51 
Iceland and Faroe Islands . .. 
891 
5,874 
Italy . 
65 
563 
Russia in Europe. 
12 
180 
England . 
9,589 
Rermuda . 
. .. 1,695 
8,229 
British Honduras . 
399 
2,521 
Canada . 
.. 457,948 
1,721,424 
Costa Rica. 
142 
841 
Guatemala. 
929 
4,677 
Honduras . 
904 
6,089 
Nicaragua . 
295 
1,749 
Panama . 
.. 5,104 
34,844 
Salvador . 
803 
3,911 
Mexico . 
.. 57,465 
334,466 
Miquelon, Langley, etc. 
11 
44 
Newfoundland and Labrador . . 
1,344 
9,758 
Barbados . 
96 
664 
Jamaica . 
507 
2,780 
Trinidad and Tobago. 
661 
3,375 
Other British West Indies. 
348 
1,968 
Cuba. 
. . 30,854 
192,199 
Danish West Indies. 
228 
1,326 
Dutch West Indies. 
150 
1,085 
French West Indies. 
95 
579 
Haiti. 
586 
4,702 
Dominican Republic. 
1,355 
7,590 
Argentina. 
. . 29,176 
202,613 
Bolivia . 
2 
9 
Brazil . 
.. 15,347 
115,611 
Chile. 
20 
Columbia. 
726 
3,815 
Ecuador . 
4 
20 
British Guiana . 
233 
1,237 
Dutch Guiana. 
75 
459 
Peru . 
69 
Uruguay . 
26,345 
Venezuela . 
9,058 
China . 
8,722 
Japanese China. 
26 
160 
British India. 
14 
67 
Straits Settlements . 
109 
590 
Dutch East Indies. 
44 
991 
Hongkong . 
1,940 
8,986 
Japan . 
449 
Russia in Asia. 
32 
Australia . 
34,249 
Other British Oceania. 
40 
195 
French Oceania. 
114 
620 
German Oceania. 
63 
314 
Philippine Islands . 
. 8,297 
36,693 
British West Africa. 
17 
180 
Total. 
2,813,091 
Commerce Reports. 
THE NEW YORK STATE MOTOR FEDERATION AND 
THE STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY AT 
SYRACUSE COOPERATING IN THE DEVELOP¬ 
MENT OF ROADSIDE PLANTING IN NEW YORK 
Marked interest has been shown in the planting of trees 
and shrubs along improved highways of the state since 
the recent announcement of The New York State College 
of Forestry at Syracuse that a definite plan of procedure 
had been laid out in cooperation with the New York State 
Motor Federation for an initial demonstration planting of 
the section of highway between Syracuse and Utica. The 
preliminary survey has been completed for this entire 
