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But the Common Black Mulberry h 

 the principal fort to cultivate for the ge- 

 neral fupply. 



The Mulberry tree grows twenty feet 

 iiigh, or more, dividing low into a large 

 branchy, widely-fpreading, full head ; 

 it produces its flowers and fruit on the 

 young wood ; very fhort robuft moots of 

 the fame year arifing from the ends of 

 others produced the Summer before, to- 

 wards the upper parts of the year-old 

 branches \ in which cafe they muft ge- 

 nerally be permitted to remain entire, 

 as fhortening would cut away the fruit- 

 ful parts, and retard their bearing. 



The trees are very hardy, and fncceed 

 in any common foil> trained both as com- 

 mon 



