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The silk- worm feeds upon the leaves of almost every variety 

 of mulberry, but the white-fruited kinds, with the very large- 

 leaved Morus Multicaulis, are chiefly fed for silk. 



VARIETIES. 



Morus Kubra, or common wild red Mulberry (Fig. 221). 

 Morus Johnsonii, or Johnson's Mulberry. 

 Morus Nigra, or European Mulberry. 



THE NECTARINE. 



The Nectarine is a mere ^ 222. 



sub-variety of the peach, 

 from the pits of which new 

 kinds of the nectarine are 

 sometimes "accidentally" 

 produced. It has a smooth 

 skin, and also some pleas- 

 ant peculiarities of flavor, 

 which render it a desirable 

 fruit ; but it is exposed to 

 the attacks of the curculio 

 and other insects to such 

 an extent as almost entire- 

 ly to discourage its culti- 

 vation. 



It is treated in all re- 

 spects like the peach, tak- 

 ing the same precautions 

 against the worm in the 

 root, and adding, as paving 

 can not be resorted to, the 

 practice of jarring the cur- 

 culio into sheets, as direct- 

 ed for the plum, page 279. 



In those districts of 

 country where the latter 



fruit is Successfully raised, &. Medium Nectarine. 



the nectarine would probably succeed also, and would be found 

 a pleasant acquisition. 



