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from seed, and may, undoubtedly, be greatly improved by re- 

 peated reproduction in this way. As it forms a large orna- 

 mental tree with a fine spreading head, 40 feet high, it is well 

 deserving a place on the lawn, or near the house, in ornamental 

 plantations. 



JOHNSON MULBERRY. We have lately received from Profes- 

 sor Kirtland, of Cleveland, one of the most intelligent horticultu- 

 rists in the country, this new variety of our native Mulberry, 

 the fruit of which is said to be of extra large size and superior 

 flavour. 



Fruit very large, oblong, cylindric ; blackish colour, sub- 

 acid, and of mild, agreeable flavour. Growth of the wood 

 strong and irregular. Leaves uncommonly large. 



The BLACK MULBERRY, or English Mulberry, (Morus nigra, 

 L.) is a very celebrated old fruit tree, originally from Asia, 

 more or less commonly cultivated in all parts of Europe, but 

 yet quite rare in this country. Its growth is slow, and it seldom 

 attains a height of more than 12 or 15 feet, forming a low, 

 branching tree, with lobed leaves, but it is very long lived, and 

 there is a specimen in England, at the seat of the duke of Nor- 

 thumberland, 300 years old. In this country it is scarcely 

 hardy enough for the eastern states ; but it thrives pretty well 

 here, and we have seen very fine crops on a tree in a sheltered 

 position, at Hyde Park, on the Hudson, 80 miles above New- 

 York. The fruit is incomparably larger and finer than that of 

 the Red Mulberry, being an inch and a half long, and nearly 

 an inch across black, and of delicious flavour. 



There are many varieties of the White Mulberry, commonly 

 cultivated for silk, but which produce fruit of no value. 



The best soil for the Mulberry, is a rich, deep, sandy loam. 

 The tree requires little or no pruning, and is of very easy cul- 

 ture. It is usually propagated by cuttings, three feet long, 

 planted in the spring, half their depth in the ground ; cuttings 

 made of pieces of the roots will also send up shoots and become 

 plants. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



NUTS. 



The EUROPEAN WALNUT, (Juglans regia, L. ; Noyer, of the 

 French ; Walnaussbaum, German ; Nocil, Italian ; and Nogal, 

 Spanish ;) better known here as the Madeira Nut, is a fine lofty 



