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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



1 I-css than 1 acre. 



Orchard Fruits, Grapes and Nuts: 1909 

 and 1899. The following table presents 

 data with regard to orchard fruits, grapes 

 and nuts. The acreage devoted to these 

 products was not ascertained. In com- 

 paring one year with the other the num- 

 ber of trees or vines of bearing age is on 

 the whole a better index of the general 



changes or tendencies than the quantity 

 of product, but the data for the censuses 

 of 1910 and 1900 are not closely compar- 

 able and the product is therefore com- 

 pared, although variations may be due 

 largely to temporarily favorable or un- 

 favorable climatic conditions. 



' Expressed in bushels for orchard fruits and pounds for grapes. 



* Included with "unclassified." 



' Consists of products not separately named by the enumerator, but grouped under the designation "all other." 



* Includes hazelnuts, black walnuts, almonds, hickory nuta, butternuta, chestnuts and filberts. 



The total quantity of orchard fruits 

 produced in 1909 was 591,000 bushels, val- 

 ued at $609,000, apples contributing more 

 than 95 per cent of this quantity. The 

 production of grapes and of nuts in this 

 state is unimportant. 



Mountain Asn. See Apple, liolany of. 



Mulberry 



The mulberry belongs to the genus 

 Morus, the order Moraceae. About 100 

 species have been catalogued, but only 

 five are now generally grown. The mul- 

 berry belongs to the same family as figs, 

 bread-fruits, elms, etc. 



The Moraceae include three sub-fam- 

 ilies, of which the typical genera are: 

 Dorstenia, which is almost a fig: Brous- 

 sonetia, the paper mulberry of Japan, the 

 East Indies, and the South Sea Islands, 

 and Morus, the mulberry proper, of which 

 the few species now catalogued are all 

 native to the temperate regions in Asia 

 and America, or to the mountain regions 

 in the tropics, but are readily cultivated 

 in similar climates in Europe, Africa and 

 Australia. 



In the Old World various species are of 

 economic importance, principally because 

 their leaves supply the food of the silk- 



