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remains are still seen in England. Mr Phillips found a 

 black mulberry tree in a garden adjoining Greenwich 

 Park, which is supposed to be one of the oldest in 

 England. ' It throws out,' says Mr P., ' ten large branch- 

 es so near the earth, that it has the appearance of half a 

 score of large trees rather than one, and notwithstanding 

 many of the projecting branches have been sawed off, it 

 completely covers a circumference of one hundred and 

 fifty feet ; and although the elder trees have fixed their 

 abode in some parts of the trunk, and other parts are 

 covered with ivy, it continues to give shoots as vigorous 

 as the youngest tree and produces the finest mulberries 

 in England. It is a regular bearer, and the gardener 

 assured me that he gathered more than eighty quarts per 

 day during the season. 



THE CHINESE MULBERRY. 



Besides the varieties of the mulberry tree heretofore 

 mentioned, there is one, which, if we may believe the 

 recommendations of it, is superior to all others for the 

 culture of silk : I mean the Chinese mulberry.* 



The following account of it I derive from the second 

 No. of the Silk Culturist, a valuable and useful work, 

 published by Dr Felix Pascalis, of New York. It is con- 

 tained in a letter to the author from Havre. 



' Samuel Perrottet, a member of the Linna?an Society 

 of Paris, employed by government as a travelling 1 botanist, 

 returned to this port after a voyage of thirty four months. 

 He brought with him eighty four boxes of various dimen- 



* See the leaf in Fig. 3, Plate 2, reduced to one twelfth of its 

 natural size. 



