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and the number and thickness of its adventitious roots it would 

 seem to be much the most striking example of an economical tree 

 thus far described. The trunk is now about three feet or more 

 in diameter, and so much decayed as to leave merely a shell of 



Fig. 3. — Trunk of Mulberry, growing in Thomasville, Ga. (Sketched by the writer.) 



no great thickness. The adventitious roots are some of them as 

 thick as a man's arm. They all ramify through the disintegrat- 

 ing heart of the tree, and the longest of them appear to reach 



