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its fruit, which, when ripe, is of a black 

 colour, its leaves are very large and rough, 

 and of a darker green than the white fort, 

 its Item generally inclines to be warped and 

 crooked, and its bark rough. 



The white mulberry- tree is fo called, be- 

 caufe its fruit is either of a white, or a pale 

 grey colour j it grows with a ftraighter 

 flem and fmoother bark, which is alfo of 

 a lighter colour than that of the black 

 rnulberry, and its leaves are fmooth, thin, 

 and much fmaller. It is rarely met with 

 in gardens, for its fruit is of no value, be- 

 ing very fmall, and of an infipid fweetilh 

 talle. 



Some of the writers on filkworms men- 

 tion a third fort of mulberry-tree, which 

 they call the white mulberry-tree, bearing 

 little red berries. This is perhaps only a 

 variation occafioned by foil and climate, 

 for the white fort fometimes bears reddifh 

 berries. There may chance alfo to be dif- 

 ferent kinds, hy the forhiay or male- dull, 

 of one fort impregnating the {eed of ano- 

 ther, when the trees of different fpecies 

 grow near one another. Perhaps mulber- 

 ries, flriclly fpeaking, may be all of one 

 fpecies, and the varieties which appear 



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