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varieties of the mulberry, one of which is the Morus mul- 

 ticaulis, and Mr Prince writes to me that he has them 

 for sale.* During my late visit to Madame Parmentier's 

 Nursery at Brooklyn, N. Y., in June 1831, I saw several 

 hundred of these plants which looked very thrifty, bore 

 very large leaves," seemed to take well to the soil, and 

 grow with uncommon rapidity. I picked several leaves 

 from them, each of which more than covered the crown 

 of my hat. The leaves were given to the silk worms in 

 my presence, and were devoured by them with great 

 avidity. This lady has also twelve different varieties of 

 the mulberry in her nursery, but this seems to be fast 

 taking the place of all others. 



I have two of the trees of this species growing in my 

 garden now (1833) which I obtained at that time and 

 brought home with me. They have stood the severities 

 of two of our northern winters, and survived without any 

 protection or shelter from the weather. 



Mr Richard K. Haight, an intelligent merchant of the 

 city of New York, has one hundred of these plants, which 

 were imported from France the present season, which I 

 saw in his nursery at Brooklyn in a flourishing condition. 

 He has also some Chinese mulberry trees of a different 

 character, which he has imported with great care, and 

 which may prove upon experiment to be valuable. 



* I have seen a few of the plants of the Morus multicaulis in 

 the Kenrick Nursery at Newton, which were transplanted from Mr 

 Prince's the present season, (1831) and are now in a flourishing 

 condition. Our nurserymen will find it for their interest to propa- 

 gate this plant as extensively as they can for the present, by inocu- 

 lation and grafting. 



