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who is said to have obtained it from Thomas Elkins of Effingham county, 

 Georgia. Mr. Elkins " planted it in avenues, on his lanes, in his fence 

 corners, and many other favorite places on his plantation, for his hogs, 

 and it is said that he always had pork or bacon to sell." At the present 

 time it is much used in parts of the south as a food for swine. Mr. 

 Berckmans says that " the value of mulberries as an economic food for 

 hogs is beginning to be appreciated by many farmers, who have planted 

 large orchards of the Hicks for that purpose." It is also one of the very 

 pest varieties for poultry. It is a most profuse bearer, producing a con- 

 tinuous and bountiful crop for three and four months. The fruit is medium 

 to large, very sweet and rather insipid. 



Stuhhs. — The original Stubbs mulberry tree was found growing in a 

 wood near Dublin, Laurens county, Georgia. Col. John M. Stubbs of 

 that place gave scions to Mr. Beeckmans some 15 years ago, and Mr. 

 Beeckmans introduced it to the public. It is probably the most productive 

 of all mulberries, even exceeding the wonderful prolificacy of the Hicks. 

 The fruit is deep black, with a very rich sub-acid vinous flavor. It is fully 

 two inches long and over a quarter as thick in well developed specimens, 



5. (a) The Lampasas Sub-Geoup. — Morus rubra var. tomentosa Bureau. 



{M. tomentosa of Bafinesque.) 



Leaves very soft-pubescent and whitish beneath, often glossy but rough 

 above. 



Lampasas. — This variety was found in the woods in Lampasas county, 

 Texas, by F. M. Kamsey, and was introduced in 1889 by T. V. Munson of 

 Denison, Texas. It has a somewhat spreading and shrub-like habit. Mr. 

 Munson writes as follows concerning it: "The Lampasas mulberry, 

 although a native of the region only 200 miles southwest of here, is so 

 tender here as to winter kill, I have ceased to propagate it on that 

 account. I have never been able to fruit it," 



There are three varieties of fruit-bearing mulberries which I have not 

 seen, and I do not know to what species they should be referred. One is 

 Bigert (Bigerfs Everbearing), which I know only from the following note 

 in the first volume of Gardener's Monthly, 1859: "A friend sends us some 

 specimens under the above name, which he says continues in bearing from 

 June till frost. It is very much in size and appearance like Downing's 

 Everbearing, but the leaves are very different." 



Another variety is the Paine, which, I think, has not been mentioned in 

 print. All I know about it is the following description sent me by the 

 venerable Isaac Hicks of "VVestbury, Long Island: "Fruit about the size 

 of Downing, not so large as New American. A very excellent variety, 

 bearing a long time. Found on the lot where TnojfAS Paine, the religious 

 reformer, was buried. Two very fine trees, which are great bearers, are on 

 the place of the late Wm. S. Carpenter at Marmaroneck, Westchester 

 county, NY." 



The third variety is the Black American, which I know only from the 

 following entry in the catalogue of the Bloomington (Illinois) nursery: 

 " Native, hardy, productive, valuable." 



The cultivation of the mulberry is very simple. I^ thrives upon any 

 ordinary well -drained soil. At full maturity, the trees are as large as an 

 apple tree. The fruit falls as soon as it is ripe, and it is readily shaken off 



