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berry produces a double quantity of foliage. Other va- 

 rieties however are known, which have obtained a prefer- 



ence over the Morns nigra. 



SECTION VII. 



RED MULBERRY. (Menus RUBRA.) 



A NATIVE of America. The tree rises to the height 

 of from thirty to forty feet; the leaves large, cordate, 

 often palmated, and more often three lobed, but usually 

 entire, dark green above, downy beneath, rugged. The 

 fruit is of a very deep red or black color and excellent. 

 This variety is esteemed superior to the black mulberry 

 as a fruit, and the tree is more hardy. The leaves may 

 be used in feeding silk-worms, but they are of an inferior 

 quality for this purpose, when compared with the com- 

 mon white mulberry, or the new Chinese black mulberry, 

 otherwise called the Morus rnulticaulis, and some other 

 species. 



SECTION VIII. 



JAPAN PAPER MULBERRY. (BROUSSONETIA PAPYRIFERA.) 



THE tree is of rapid growth, and rises to a large size, 

 with a round head ; the leaves are rough, either cordate, 

 entire, lobed or palmated. It is a native of China and 

 Japan, and the liber or inner bark, by being beaten to 

 render it pliable, serves for paper and as an article of 

 clothing in those countries. The fruit is round and cu- 

 rious, but not edible. The leaves are eaten by the silk- 

 worms; and for this purpose, it is now successfully cul- 

 tivated in France. 



