kinds, by a process in which the bark is reduced to a pulp, 
to be afterwards spread into sheets of greater or less thick- 
ness, upon similar principles, though by different contri- 
vances, to what are used in the manufacture of European 
paper, except that it appears that the Japanese employ 
vegetable mucilages only, and neither animal gluten nor 
alum, which is probably the reason that their paper is more 
bibulous than ours. A full description of the Japanese 
process for making paper from the Paper-Mulberry may 
be seen in Kamprer’s amenitates, which has been trans- — 
lated into several of the Encyclopedias and Dictionaries 
of the day. : : 
In young plants the leaves are more or less divided into 
lobes, but in adult shrubs they are generally entire, as 
seen in our plate, in which the upper figure represents a _ 
flowering branch of the female, and the lower one of a 
male plant. This tree has been long cultivated in our 
gardens ; poe the Hortus Kewensis before 1751, by 
_Perer Coxtutnson, Esq. It appears by M. Porrer’s account 
in Lamarcx’s Encyclopédie that it had been long cultivated 
also in the Paris gardens, but that the male plant only was 
known, till M. Broussoner, in his travels, met with the 
female in some garden in Scotland, and transmitted cuttings © 
of it. The fruit being from that time known, it was found 
not to belong to the genus Morus, though nearly allied to 
it. M. L’ Hererier gave it the name of Brovssoneria;” 
but his unfortunate death prevented its publication, till — 
adopted by Venrtenat, in his Tableau du Régne Végétal. 
Native of Japan and the South-sea islands. Flowers 
from February to September. Propagated by layers, 
cuttings, or seed. Communicated by Joun Waxxer, Esq. 
