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The MULBERRY TREE. 



THE Mulberry Tree (Moras) is in 

 high eftimation for its fine juicy 

 berries, very refrefhing to eat in the hot 

 weather of Autumn, as well as for fomc 

 culinary ufes, and makes a fine fyrup ; 

 it is likewife eminent for its leaves to 

 feed filk- worms, and belongs to the clafs 

 and order Monoecia tetrandria> i. e. male 

 and female flowers apart on the fame 

 tree, the males having four flamina. 



There are feveral fpecies of Mulber- 

 ries; but there is only one fort com- 

 monly cultivated as a fruit tree in Eng- 

 land 3 viz. 



Morns 



