CHAPTER XXX11. 



MULBERRIES. 



THESE are one of the most wholesome and enjoyable of 

 our later fruits, and ought to be more extensively 

 planted. They do not bear largely until the trees are 

 nearly twenty years old, when they carry throughout 

 the autumn almost continuous crops of the most tempting 

 of fruits. They require no cultivation, beyond thinning 

 out the branches, and are affected with no diseases, and 

 the fruit when thoroughly ripe will sell to the fruiterers 

 at 8d. to Is. per Ib. 



The Americans bottle or " can " this fruit to perfection 

 by simply scalding it a few minutes, and packing it in 

 its juice into tins, like tomatoes. 



For market they should be picked quite black, and 

 sent up in large punnets. 



