ON MULBERRY TREES, &£C. 55 



There are ten by the highway near the wall, and designed as or- 

 namental trees. The residue being the smaller ones,with a par- 

 cel of seedlings are in a nursery. 



The Committee think very favourably of this experiment of 

 Mr. Perry to introduce the cultivation of the sugar maple. It is 

 a tree very valuable for timber, unusually free from insects and 

 beautiful as an ornamental tree, and in many parts of our country 

 it is esteemed highly valuable on account of the sugar which is 

 manufactured from its sap. On referring to the list of premiums 

 offered by the Society, for forest trees, it does not appear that 

 the sugar maple is among those enumerated, nor is the 

 number of trees set out by Mr. Perry so large as prescribed by 

 the Society for the trees particularly specified. Your Commit" 

 tee are however of opinion that Mr. Perry is entitled to much 

 credit for his attempt to cultivate this tree, and they would sub- 

 mit for the consideration of the trustees, whether Mr. Perry 

 may not be considered as equitably entitled to some gratuity 

 from the trustees for his services. 



Samuel Eaton exhibited to your Committee a plantation of 

 white mulberry trees occupying about three acres of ground and 

 containing about 4000 trees. They are set in rows twelve feet 

 apart and two feet apart in the rows. About 3300 of the 

 trees are of five years growth, two in the nursery and three 

 where they now stand, and seven or eight hundred are of 

 four years growth, two in the nursery and two where they 

 now stand. The trees appeared thrifty and well, but the 

 Committee regret that Mr. Eaton should have neglected 

 pruning them the present year. The Committee recommend 

 the second premium of twenty dollars to Mr. Eaton for his 

 plantation. 



Mr Eaton also exhibited to your committee about 8000 co- 

 coons, weighing about 23 pounds, which he had obtained from 

 his worms the present season. The leaves were gathered and 

 fed out by two boys, one eight and the other thirteen years old, 

 assisted by their mother in the cleansing. The eggs were hatched 

 during the first week in June, and each day's hatching kept in 

 separate stands. During the two first stages they were cleaned 



