as the youngest tree and produces the finest mulberries 

 in England. It is a regular bearer, and the gardener 

 assured me that he gathered more than eighty quarts per 

 day during the season. 



THE CHINESE MULBERRY. 



Besides the varieties of the mulberry tree heretofore 

 mentioned, there is one, which, if we may believe the 

 recommendations of it, is superior to all others for the 

 culture of silk : I mean the Chinese mulberry.* 



The following account of it I derive from the second 

 No. of the Silk Culturist, a valuable and useful work, 

 published by Dr Felix Pascalis, of New York. It is con- 

 tained in a letter to the author from Havre. 



* Samuel Perrottet, a member of the Linnasan Society 

 of Paris, employed by government as a travelling botanist, 

 returned to this port after a voyage of thirtyfour months. 

 He brought with him eightyfour boxes of various dimen- 

 sions, containing one hundred and fiftyeight species of 

 living plants, of at least eight feet in height, to the quanti- 

 ty of five hundred and thirtyfour individuals. All these 

 productions had been procured in the seas of Asia, or 

 gathered on the coast or in the lands of Cayena. From 

 the commencement of the present century, there had nev- 

 er before been so vast an importation one so extensive 

 in number, for rare genera, species and families, and 

 vegetable productions, or of their seeds. All of them 

 passed under my examination, and they rather appeared 



to have come out of a green house than from a ship. 



* See the leaf in Fig. 3, Plate 2, reduced to one twelfth of its 

 natural size. 



