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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
enough to stand alone. It is also an excellent subject to 
plant on banks, rough ground or train on fences and over 
walls. 
The native or False Bitter-sweet, Celastrus scandens is 
very similar to the Japanese one hut perhaps is not quite 
so showy the fruits being produced in terminal panicles 
while that on the Japanese kind is in cymes along the 
branches hut both are well worth growing. 
The Celastrus is a vine that could be recommended a 
great deal oftener by the nurserymen for trellises and 
BABY BAMBLEBS 
THE NEWARK PRODUCTS 
Paul V. Fortmiller. 
Newark, N. Y. 
Just “Fort”—Be sure to address his mail to Newark, Wayne 
County, N. Y. as he is a Jackson & Perkins product, you know, 
preferred stock stands for select stock, etc. etc. “nuf sed.” He 
is all wool and a yard wide. 
Win. H. Mastin, 
Newark, N. Y. 
Just “Bill”—Another Newark, Wayne County product, only 
the firm’s name is C. W. Stuart & Co,, whio are good growers of 
good goods and good graders. 
fences instead of the ever present rose and clematis, the 
foliage is handsome, it is free growing, will thrive in 
dryish places and has the added advantage of being at¬ 
tractive in the Winter which most other vines lack. It is 
readily propagated from seed, which should be gathered 
in the Fall and sowm at once or else stratified and sow n in 
the Spring hut it is a plant that is easily jiropagated from 
root cuttings, and layers. It is one of those plants that a 
nurseryman can take hold of, grow properly, advertise 
and make very popular if properly handled. 
F. Burnett Kelley, 
Newark, N. Y. 
Just “Kell”—One of this year’s crop of Baby Ramblers. 
These Newark fellows are all off the same piece of cloth; live 
wires, every one of them. “Kell” is connected with the Gould 
Growers Corporation of Newark, N. Y. 
Remember when in the Finger lake district to visit Newark; 
it’s 32 miles from Rochester, 16 miles from Geneva and 54 miles 
from Syracuse, and see “Fort” “Bill” and “Kell.” 
Miles W. Bryant, son of A. J. Bryant, Princeton, Ills., and Ruth 
Amanda Kaar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kaar of Prince¬ 
ton, Ills, were married on August 30th. 
AGE OF SEED DOES NOT CAUSE DETEBIOBATION 
OF TYPE 
According to the Australasian International Nursery¬ 
man, an interesting law-suit case has recently been de¬ 
cided in the New Zealand Courts. 
A seedsman sold to a chickory grower, a seed wdiich 
both seller and purchaser understood to he old seed, the 
purchaser taking the risk of germination. When the 
crop grew, a large proportion of the roots proved inferior, 
the seller contending that the old seed was the cause of 
the inferior roots, wdiile the purchaser contended that 
age of the seed did not cause deterioration of type. 
The Commission took evidenee that the Supreme Court, 
Melbourne, and leading seedsmen, chickory growers, uni¬ 
versity professors and Government officials, gave evi¬ 
dence on both sides, finally decided in favor of the plain¬ 
tiff agreeing that age of seed had no deteriorating effedls 
on the growth of plants or roots. 
