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entire branches untouched. At the commencement of 

 the third year, the plants will have branches to form 

 a hedge. 



" The height, form, &c. of a hedge, may be regu- 

 lated according to the taste of the cultivator, by cut- 

 ting off the branches, when covered with leaves, and 

 feeding the silkworm upon them. Some cultivators 

 are permitting their standard trees to grow up out of 

 their hedges at the distance of ten or twelve feet from 

 each other. This is doubtless an improvement, as by 

 cutting away the hedge, an orchard of standard trees 

 would be left, should it ever be found desirable so to 

 do. Rails might also be inserted into the standards, 

 and a good fence easily made." 



CUTTINGS, LAYERS, &C. 



Having treated upon*seed, as one of the modes of 

 cultivating, or rather of propagating the Mulberry, I 

 shall now proceed to speak of the other methods, 

 without, however, observing any particular order, 

 taking them as they occur to my mind. 



In propagating the Chinese Mulberry, I consider 

 the cutting as the best and the surest means of ob- 

 taining the genuine* Morus Multicaulis. This tree, 

 it 5s said, cannot be propagated from the seed without 

 producing hybrid varieties ; as the pollen of the na- 

 tive Mulberry, will mix with its own when in blos- 

 som, and hence a mongrel class is produced. 



I have some experience in planting the cutting, and 



