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leaves of very various shapes. As in the Mulberry, 

 the younger leaves are more deeply cut than the older 

 ones. The text-books call attention to the peculiar 

 way in which the leaves on the lateral branches are 

 brought to face the light. 



The Paper Mulberry is common ; you will see it 

 in most gardens, and in open places. There is a row 

 of them at Vence Cagnes, by the high road, trimmed 

 in a peculiar manner. All the specimens which I 

 have examined on the Riviera, with one single 

 exception, are staminate. At the Nice Chateau I 

 discovered a pistillate plant. The fruits became 

 about the size of a small Hazel nut, and fell off with- 

 out ripening. I returned the next year to the same 

 spot, in order to ascertain whether this tree had been 

 more successful in fruiting, but I found that it had 

 been destroyed in widening the path. This kind of 

 vandalism is so common out here that unless a given 

 specimen is in your own garden, you can never count 

 upon seeing it a second time. I believe that if a 

 Niois were admitted into the Garden of Eden, he 

 would cut down the Tree of Life and sell the wood at 

 so much per hundred kilos ! 



By far the finest Broussonetia in Nice stands in 

 front of the Ecole Normale in the Route de Genes. 

 Dendrologists should not miss seeing this handsome 

 tree. 



The Fig (Ficw Carica) is said to have been intro- 

 duced into France by the Phoceans who founded Mar- 

 seilles and Nice. I read in a very old German book of 

 travels, written before Nice became known as a health 

 resort, that the Fig tree was at that time specially culti- 

 vated between Antibes and Vence Cagnes, and that this 



