or three years ; and with regard to that, the good sense 

 of every cultivator will direct him how to form a tree the 

 most beautiful, as well as the most productive. June is 

 the best season for doing this, and the young branches 

 that are taken off will afford their leaves for the worms.* 



GROWTH OF THE MULBERRY TREE. 



Standard trees, when once well rooted, will thrive in 

 any soil that is not too wet ; the gigantic size to which 

 tfie wild native mulberry attains in the western country, 

 and numerous examples of large and thrifty trees in the 

 Atlantic states, furnish abundant evidence of this. The 

 mulberry tree attains to a very great age, and no other 

 tree of equal growth and beauty resists so well the influ- 

 ences of the sea atmosphere. Two or three grand 

 specimens of this beautiful tree, says Mr Phillips, stand- 

 ing on the most exposed situation of the northeast coast 

 of England, not only defy the enemy, but delight in their 

 situation : throwing out their noble limbs in all direc- 

 tions, and assuming a foliage rich, full, and tufted to its 

 topmost boughs : one of them is of the greatest magni- 

 tude, though some of its vast limbs have been torn from 

 it ; it is still in vigor, and in point of richness of effect, 



* For taking off the small branches of larger trees which could 

 not be reached by hand, I saw an ingenious contrivance at Balti- 

 more by G. B. Smith, Esq. It was nothing more than a pair of 

 pruning shears attached by one of the handles to a ten foot pole, 

 which is held in one hand, and operated upon by means of a cord 

 passing through a pulley, and attached to the other handle with the 

 other hand; by this simple contrivance the twigs and branches 

 were taken off with ease, and so smoothly as not to lacerate the 

 bark or injure the appearance of the tree. 



