SUPPLEMENT TO THE CULTIVATION 



MULBERRY TREES. 



GRAFTING OF MULBERRY TREES.* 



In the work of Kouo-tko-tho, we read : If a mulberry 

 tree be grafted upon the tree of Kou, its leaves will be large 

 and thick. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE TRANSLATOR. 



This tree is the same the modern naturalists call Brous- 

 sonetia papyrifera. The Abbe Grozier speaks of it in his 

 description of China in the following manner : 



u This tree is so much more precious to the Chinese, be- 

 cause it furnishes them with a great quantity of paper, which 

 they consume. When its branches are broken, the bark de- 

 taches itself and peels off like long riband. To judge of the 

 species by its leaves, it would be thought a wild mulberry 

 tree ; but, by its fruit, it resembles more a fig tree. The 

 fruit adheres to the branches without a stem ; it produces 

 milk like the fig, if pulled before it ripens. Its resemblance 



* We are not ignorant that the agriculturists of Franca are very superior to the 

 Chinese, in the practice of different kinds of grafting ; but we have thought, that 

 we ought to print this article, to presarve the original text in all its integrity. 



[Sr. JULIEN.J 



