ItiS MACLUKA AURANTIACA. 



I>lack, rotten, aiul reduced to a li(iiiid. The cocoons were not formed till some 

 days after those of the worms which fed on tlic mulberry ; only five of them 

 being quite perfect, and several of iliem tolerably so, from all of which, the silk 

 reeled freely, and was of an excellent ([uality.* Other experiments have since 

 been made in Italy and other places, but with still less favourable results. 



The maclura, from its general form, its beautiful shining foliage, wliich it 

 retains longer tlian almost any other deciduous tree, and from its fine, large 

 golden fruit, well deserves a place m every collection wlierever it will grow. 



* Olto, Garten Zeilung, iii., p. 292. 



