DENDROLOGY. 



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agreeable, sweet taste. This fruit is ripe in the beginning of 

 June, before that of any other tree or shrub. 



The wood of the June berry is of a pure white, and exhibits 

 no difference between the heart and the sap ; it is longitudinally 

 traversed by small, bright, red vessels, which intersect each 

 other and run together. This wood is applied to no particular 

 use in the arts. 



MORUS. 



Monoecia Tetrandria. Linn. Urticeae. Juss. Tonic, anodyne. 



Red Mulberry. Mo 



rus ru 



bra. 



The northern extremity 

 of Lake Champlain and the 

 banks of the river Connecti- 

 cut, may be assumed as the 

 northern limits of this tree. 

 As a temperate climate is 

 favorable to its increase, it 

 is more multiplied farther 

 south ; but in the Atlantic 

 States it is proportion ably 

 less common than many 

 other trees which still do 

 not constitute the mass of 

 the forests. In the lower 

 part of the Southern States, 

 it is much less frequently 

 seen than at a distance from 

 the sea, where the soil and vegetable productions wear a different 

 character. It is most abundant in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, 

 Kentucky and Tennessee, particularly on the banks of the 

 Wabash, the Illinois and Missouri, which is attributable to the 

 superior fertility of the soil. 



In situations favorable to the growth of the red mulberry, it 

 attains the elevation of 60 or 70 feet, with a diameter of two 



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PLATE lvii. 

 Fig. 1. A leaf. Fig. 2. The fruit. 



