CHINESE MULBERRY. 39 



ame Parmentier has found on trial at her late establish- 

 ment at Brooklyn, New York, that the silk-worms left 

 seven other species of the mulberry to feed on this. 



In Tuscany, so fine is their climate that two success- 

 ive crops of silk are annually produced by the common 

 mulberry; and Dr. Deslongchamps has proved, that by 

 aid of the Chinese mulberry, two crops of silk may be 

 annually produced even in the north of France. Our 

 climate is far more propitious than theirs, and at least as 

 favorable as that of Italy; since in the south of that 

 country, the pernicious sirocco, a dreadful south wind, 

 sometimes strikes whole communities of silk-worms dead. 

 The cocoons of the second crop which were produced 

 by Madame Parmentier, being fed exclusively on the 

 Chinese mulberry, were of a brilliant and snowy white- 

 ness. Those also which were exhibited at the fair of 

 the American Institute, in New York, in 1833, of the 

 first and second crops, both being fed exclusively on the 

 Morns multicaulis, completed their labors before mid- 

 summer ; these cocoons were also of a snowy whiteness. 

 At the government establishment near Montgeron, in 

 1835, there were 67,000 mulberries of different species, 

 set out and in a flourishing state, including a great num- 

 ber of the Chinese mulberries ; these were kept very 

 low by pruning. M. Beauvais founds his expectations, 

 his sanguine reliance, on this mulberry alone, for the 

 production of the second crop of silk. 



The prediction of the late Dr. Pascalis, in 1830, that 

 " after the discovery of this plant, a doubt no longer ex- 

 ists that two crops of silk may be produced in a single 

 season;" this prediction has since been accomplished 

 its truth fulfilled by experiment. The soil and cultiva- 

 tion, the habitations for the successive generations of 

 silk-worms, being yet the same, all thus converted to 

 double use, and the production of a twofold harvest, it 

 will be obvious that the actual profit, thus augmented, 

 must be manifold. 



In a report on this mulberry which was made to the 



