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from the bottom in the spring with great luxuriance. The 

 seed plant is undoubtedly best, both for food, for worms 

 and duration : it is also the most convenient mode of get- 

 ting the trees, as seed enough can be sent by mail to any 

 part of the Union to produce an orchard sufficient to 

 feed several millions of worms. I cannot believe that 

 any other mode can be pursued to much advantage in 

 this country ; but as some may be fond of trying experi- 

 ments in other modes of culture, the following are laid 

 down as sometimes used in Europe. 



MANNER OF MULTIPLYING MULBERRY TREES BY 

 CUTTINGS. 



The soil chosen to receive the slips of the mulberry 

 tree should be prepared much in the same way as has 

 been described for the seed. The cuttings of the mul- 

 berry are to be planted in the same manner as the cut- 

 tings of the vine ; that is, by making furrows by a line at 

 the distance of six feet from one to the other, and by cross- 

 ing them by furrows at the same distance, in order to form 

 squares. A two-year old branch of a mulberry tree, hav- 

 ing wood of four or five years at one end, must be select- 

 ed, and the extremity of the old wood must be interred 

 to the depth of about ten inches, The branches chosen 

 from the white mulberry must be taken off in the spring at 

 the first rising of the sap. Two or three incisions must 

 be made in the joints or knots of the old wood, because this 

 operation will facilitate the shooting of the roots, which 

 always put forth from the joints of the old wood. The 

 cuttings must then be covered with a well manured and 

 friable earth, and the end of the branch which rises from 



