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ularly recommend this mode in preference to all others ; 

 and especially have they recommended that the M. mul- 

 ticaulis be cultivated by this mode alone : and M. Bona- 

 foux, who has introduced the Morus multicaulis to Mi- 

 lan in Italy, recommends both the plant and this mode 

 of culture, as productive of crops both sudden and more 

 abundant than any other before known. 



In Persia, as we are informed, the trees are kept low 

 and not suffered to rise over six or eight feet in height. 

 Broussa, a city of Turkey, at-the foot of Mount Olym- 

 pus, is famous for its silk, and is surrounded by mulberry 

 plantations ; the trees, says Com. Porter, are planted in 

 rows, not more than two or three feet apart, and kept 

 pruned low for use, in the season for gathering the 

 leaves, so that a man may reach the top. At other pla- 

 ces in this great silk district, the same system is pursued. 



The ground being enriched and duly prepared to a suit- 

 able depth, the trees may be set in rows eight feet asunder, 

 three feet distant in the row ; two thousand trees will 

 thus be required to the acre ; the cart-ways transverse ; 

 and the ground being cultivated as a garden ; but four 

 feet distance would be required in the first years, and 

 other plants may be cultivated between. The leaves 

 may be gathered either in the second and third years, or 

 in the fifth and sixth,, according to the variety. In strip- 

 ping the leaves, those at the tip ends of the twigs are 

 always left. In hot countries the silk-worms are fed 

 wholly on primings, as the leaves thus for a longer time 

 preserve their needful freshness and moisture. 



John P. Gushing, Esq. of Belmont in Watertown, a 

 gentleman who has resided many years in China, has 

 stated that the most approved mode of cultivating the 

 mulberry, as practised in that country, consists in keep- 

 ing them low by annual prunings, like plantations of 

 raspberries. The same mode, according to Mr. Loudon, 

 and also M. Bonafoux, is practised in India. This sys- 

 tem of close planting and low pruning is in perfect con- 

 formity with the highly approved mode of management, 



