PLANTATIONS OF MULBERRY TREES. 49 



soil, and the ground trodden hard. Cuttings are planted 

 early in spring. 



Comte Dandolo and others have recommended to graft 

 the Common White Mulberry, with the large leaved and 

 finer varieties, those which produce abundant crops of 

 leaves; and especially the male plants, as these, produc- 

 ing no fruit, yield larger leaves, which are not soiled and 

 disfigured by the bruised fruit in gathering. Many of 

 the wild varieties are bad, the trees thorny, the leaves 

 small or feu' in number. They should be inoculated 

 near the ground, or they may be engrafted at the sur- 

 face of the earth in the third spring. 



M. Bourgeous also states that those grafted with the 

 better kinds, such as the Rose leaved, and the Spanish 

 Mulberry, produce leaves not only more beautiful," but 

 of more nourishing quality and greater number. The 

 same is stated by M.Thome, a name of equally high au- 

 thority, and one who had devoted to the culture of silk- 

 worms 40 years of his life. 



The Morus multicaulis is propagated with great ra- 

 pidity in all the northern and middle States by the fol- 

 lowing mode. The ground being suitably prepared, the 

 whole tree, divested of a portion of its lateral shoots, is 

 planted horizontally in the furrow ; the root placed at 

 suitable depth and trodden hard, the whole top of the 

 tree is covered with an inch in depth of light soil, ren- 

 dered compact with the hoe ; from every lateral and up- 

 per eye, shoots will be produced which form fine trees 

 by autumn. From every eye roots are emitted in abun- 

 dance, even before the eye reaches the surface. No tree 

 hitherto known is propagated more rapidly. 



SECTION XVII. 

 PLANTATIONS OF MULBERRY TREES. 



Whoever would enter extensively on the culture of 

 silk, must first of all provide an abundance of the ma- 



