468 MACLURA AURANT1ACA. 
black, rotten, and reduced to a liquid. The cocoons were not formed till some 
days after those of the worms which fed on the mulberry ; only five of them 
being quite perfect, and several of them tolerably so, from all of which, the silk 
reeled freely, and was of an excellent quality.* Other experiments have since 
been made in Italy and other places, but with still less favourable results. 
The maclura, from its general form, its beautiful shining foliage, which it 
retains longer than almost any other deciduous tree, and from its fine, large 
golden fruit, well deserves a place in every collection wherever it will grow. 
* Otto, Garten Zeitung, iii., p. 292. 
