CHINESE MULBERRY. 41 



subject, I need not name. From this communication I 

 have extracted largely, as I deem it very important. 



MORUS MULTICAULIS. 



" Editor Farmer and Gardener : 



g IRj Having seen many statements and sugges- 

 tions in the public prints, that the Chinese Mulberry, 

 Morus multicaulis, was not as hardy as the White Mul- 

 berry, that it would not bear the extreme cold of our 

 winters, &/c., I deem it proper to state my own obser- 

 vations on the subject. I was the first person south of 

 New York, who had the Morus Multicaulis. It was 

 sent to me by my old friends, William Prince and Sons, 

 in 1828, in a collection of seven other varieties of mul- 

 berry, but under another name. 



About a year after I received it, accounts were recei- 

 ved from France of the receipt there of the Morus Mul- 

 ticaulis, and of its great value for feeding silk-worms. 

 I immediately commenced feeding my silk-worms with 

 the multicaulis, and from experiment ascertained the 

 truth of all the French had said about it. From that 

 time to this, I have continued to urge upon all, the pro- 

 priety of cultivating this, in preference to the white 

 mulberry. 



Its advantages are: it is fully as hardy as the 

 white ; one pound of its leaves contains as much nutri- 

 tive matter as a pound and an half of the white; the 

 silk made from it is of a finer texture and more lustrous; 

 its leaves are so large, that a pound can be gathered at 

 half the expense and trouble that a pound of white mul- 

 berry leaves require; it can be cultivated with infi- 

 nitely more despatch than any other kind. These are 

 all great advantages, and I am so well convinced of the 

 correctness of this statement, that I do not hesitate to 

 say, that within ten years, no other mulberry will be 

 cultivated for feeding silk-worms ; simply because those 



