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Madame Parmentier's Nursery at Brooklyn, N. Y., I 

 saw several hundred of these plants which looked very 

 thrifty, bore very large leaves, seemed to take well to the 

 soil, and grow with uncommon rapidity. 1 picked sev- 

 eral leaves from them, each of which more than covered 

 the crown of my hat. The leaves were given to the silk 

 worms in my presence and were devoured by them with 

 great avidity. This lady has also twelve different varie- 

 ties of, the mulberry in her nursery, but this seems to be 

 fast taking the place of all others. 



Mr Richard K. Haight, an intelligent merchant of the 

 city of New York, has one hundred of these plants, 

 which were imported from France the present season, 

 which I saw in his* nursery at Brooklyn in a flourishing 

 condition. He has also some Chinese mulberry trees of 

 a different character, which he has imported with great 

 care and which may prove upon experiment to be valu- 

 able. I have brought this valuable plant into Massachu- 

 setts and intend to inoculate some thousands of the com- 

 mon white in my nursery with buds the present season 

 if possible. 



The following statistics of a mulberry orchard of 

 two acres, are by the late Andrew Parmentier, Esq. of 

 New York : 



650 standard trees in the low parts of the ground, each 



20 feet apart* 



250 standard trees on the rising places, 12 feet apart. 

 650 dwarf trees on suitable portions of the ground. 



3550 



This ground to be fenced by mulberry hedges. The 

 purchase money for about two acres, with cost of manure 

 and necessary tillage, is estimated at $500. 



