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that the alliance of P. pedemontana is with P. viscosa and P. integrifolia, from 

 both of which, however, it conspicuously differs. "It is of easy cultivation in a 

 mixture of loam and peat, interpersed with bits of stone." M. 



THE MULBERRY TREE. 



AM very glad to find that the attention of your readers has at last been 

 directed to this valuable fruit tree. Allow me, then, to state that the reason 

 why the fruit is not seen at any fruit exhibition, why it is not found on the 

 dessert-table, and why it is not marketed like other garden produce, is 

 because it will not bear packing, either in large or small quantities. Therefore 

 it is always eaten from under or from off the tree. The fruit is most agreeable 

 and wholesome, in any form, either fresh or preserved. No garden or lawn, 

 where there is room, ought to be without a Mulberry tree. 



I have a tree of somewhat extraordinary dimensions, growing on a very stiff 

 clay soil. The trunk is 3 ft. 10 in. high, and 4 ft. 6 in. in girth ; the extreme 

 height of foliage from the ground is 28 ft., and the outside circumference 159 ft. 

 The form is a complete dome. It was planted by my father fifty years ago, and 

 has survived without injury the two first of its three stages of growth, which 



