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Academy, of Dijon by M. Tilloy, of the Medical Jury of 

 the Department of Cote D'Or, August, 1834, it is stated 

 that in the same situation, time, and temperature, five 

 hundred silk-worms were fed on fifteen pounds of the 

 leaves of the White Mulberry, and five hundred other 

 silk-worms were fed on fifteen pounds of the leavesof the 

 Morus rnulticaulis ; both finished in the same time. Of 

 the cocoons produced from the White Mulberry it re- 

 quired four hundred and twenty to the pound, while of 

 those produced from the Morus multicaulis, it required 

 but 384; both gave two ounces of very fine silk to the 

 pound, of equal beauty; but it was remarked that in 

 winding the cocoons fed from the Chinese Mulberry, 

 not a thread was broken, which was not the case with 

 the others. 



It appears from the deliberations of the French Roy- 

 al Society of Horticulture, (as noted in the Farmer's 

 Register) that the Chinese Mulberry or Morus multi- 

 caulis is not a distinct species, and that as a new arid in- 

 valuable variety, it can only be preserved by multiplying 

 it from grafts, layers, and cuttings ; and that by these 

 means exclusively have the Chinese cultivators reared 

 the tree from time immemorial. And M. Maupoil a 

 Frenchman settled at Lombardy, who propagates the 

 Chinese Mulberry by every mode, has found that plants 

 raised from seed tend to approach in character the com- 

 mon White Mulberry; thence he recommends its propa- 

 gation by slips and grafting exclusively. Seeds sown 

 near Venice have, it is further stated, produced varie- 

 ties, but none like the true Morus multicaulis. 



For the following excellent remarks on the virtues and 

 mode of culture of the Morus multicaulis, the public 

 are indebted to the valuable " SILK MANUAL" of Mr. 

 Roberts, the editor of the Farmer and Gardener, which 

 is published at Baltimore This communication is from 

 Gideon B. Smith, Esq., who was formerly the editor of 

 the "American Farmer." Higher authority than Mr, 

 Smith, as a gentleman practically acquainted with his 



