46 THE CULTURE 



.{hike root from cuttings, the more of the* 

 branch muft lye under ground to make up 

 the defe6l, and the more fhould fuch other 

 artifices be ufed, as will make it put on 

 a rooty nature j for otherwife, though a 

 branch may bud and keep alive during the 

 beginning of fummer, yet when the leaves 

 are expanded, and perfpiring much, require 

 much fupply of fap, as they will do with 

 the advance of the feafon, the branch will 

 often, for want of due nourifliment, de- 

 cline apace and at laft die. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Of I'aiJtJig Mulberry^trees by layers, and othei* 

 methods. 



^HOUGH the two methods of raif^ 

 -*■ ing mulberry trees, from feeds, and 

 cuttings, are the quickeft and moil advan- 

 tageous, yet, where large plantations are to 

 be fuddenly raifed, all other methods may 

 be at the fame time ufed ; layers may be 

 made from low trees, and from fuckers, 

 which are fometimes produced plentifully 

 from the roots 3 but the method of mak- 



