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who feed silk-worrns upon white mulberry leaves will 

 not be enabled to compete with those who feed on mo- 

 rns multicaulis, and they will be either compelled to 

 abandon the silk business, or adopt the multicaulis for 

 feeding. In relation to the hardiness of the morns mul- 

 ticaulis, I have to remark, that I have cultivated it for 

 seven years; never protected it in any manner whatever, 

 and never lost a tree by the cold of winter or in any 

 other way. I had fifty young trees in my garden last 

 winter, and not even a bud on the extremity of the 

 branches was injured. It is true about 50 yards west 

 from where the young trees stood, there is a grove of 

 oak trees, and on the north 50 yards distant, my dwell- 

 ing house stood ; and the garden has an exposure to the 

 south with a gentle declination. But my residence in 

 the winter of 1831-2 was very different. It was a farm 

 four miles in the country in a north-east direction ; the 

 situation at an elevation of 300 or 400 feet above tide 

 water, There my morus multicaulis had an open ex- 

 posure to the north-west wind ; yet none were injured. 

 During the whole time, I have had the white mulberry 

 of several varieties, and have observed that they were 

 all equally hardy none more so than the multicaulis. 

 I have seen the young unripened wood of all the vari- 

 eties destroyed by winter, and was very early led to 

 adopt measures to guard against it, and now I never 

 lose a bud." 



" None but the young trees are ever injured by win- 

 ter, and all we have to do is to give them such a start, 

 as to enable them to ripen their wood previous to the 

 approach of very cold weather. 



" After the first year, I have never seen any of them 

 lost by winter, except in some extra cases, and in these 

 cases, the white mulberry has suffered, and even the na- 

 tive mulberry, fully as much as the multicaulis. Last 

 winter, a white mulberry tree, seven or eight years old, 

 in the western part of the city of Baltimore, was killed 

 to the ground; while my morus multicaulis, not a quar- 



