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Mulberry, which is very ornamental, called Broussonetia 

 papyrifera ; though a low tree, it has vigorous shoots, 

 furnished with two large leaves ; the fruit, which is small, is 

 surrounded with long purple hairs, changing to a black 

 purple colour when ripe, and full of juice. " In China and 

 Japan, it is cultivated for the sake of the young shoots, 

 from the bark of which the inhabitants of the Eastern 

 countries make paper. The bark being separated from the 

 wood, is steeped in water, the former making the whitest 

 and best paper. The bark is next slowly boiled, then 

 washed, and afterwards put upon a wooden table, and beat 

 into a pulp. This pulp being put in water, separates like 

 grains of meal. An infusion of rice, and the root of man- 

 hiot are next added to it. From the liquor so prepared, th 

 sheets of paper are poured out one by one, and when 

 pressed, the operation in finished." 



"The juice of this tree is sufficiently tenacious to be used 

 in China as a glue, in gilding either leather or paper. The 

 finest and whitest cloth worn by the principal people at 

 Otaheite, and in the Sandwich Islands, is made of the bark 

 of this tree. The cloth of the Bread Fruit tree is inferior 

 in whiteness and softness, and worn chiefly by the common 

 people." 



NECTARINE. 



PECHERA FRUIT LISSE, ou BROGNONS. Amygdalus nectarine*. 



THE varieties of this fruit resemble the Peach in every 

 respect, except that the skin is perfectly smooth, of a waxen 

 appearance, and the flesh generally more firm ; although 

 of the same genus as the Peach, which is so plentiful in this 

 country, the fruit of the Nectarine is quite a rarity, and 

 seldom appears in our markets. There are seventy-two 

 varieties cultivated in the Horticultural Garden of London ; 

 and Nicol says, that i: no varieties of the Nectarine are at 

 present known to have originated in North America, except 

 "the Boston," 



