ON MULBERRY TREES AND SILK. 41 



B. Perry, for his orchard of mulberry trees, number- 

 ing between five and six hundred, and being over 

 three years' growth. 



That a gratuity of s^5, be awarded to Mr. Joseph 

 Foster, of Beverly ; of $3, to William C. Richard- 

 son, and $3, to Moses P. Atwood, for their nurseries 

 of mulberry trees, which the committee think have 

 been cultivated with good success. 



With this report of their doings the committee 

 present to the society the statements made by the 

 several claimants, and it is only justice to say, that 

 the committee, as far as they have been able to 

 examine the articles presented, have found these 

 statements fully sustained. 



The committee would have accompanied this 

 report with some more extended remarks, but for- 

 bear, so as to give place for the communication of Mr. 

 Cutler; observations, coming as they do, from one 

 whose opportunities for experiments of his own, and 

 of gaining information from the experiments of oth- 

 ers, are fully entitled to high consideration, and will 

 no doubt be justly appreciated by the Society and an; 

 enlightened community. It would not however be 

 just to themselves nor to the community at large, to 

 send out that communication, without observing that 

 there exists in the committee a diversity of opinion 

 in respect to the comparative value of the hardy 

 mulberry trees and those of the multicaulis, in a cli- 

 mate and soil like those of the county of Essex. 

 For the Committee, 



December, 1840. 



G. B. PERRY. 



TEIMPLE cutler's STATE :M EN T, 



To the Committee on Mulberry Trees, ^c. 



Gentlemen — I offer for premium a Nursery of 

 Mulberry trees, raised from roots and cuttings of 

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