42 ON MULBERRY TREES AND SILK. 



the Perotted, or Morus Multicaulis, consisting of 

 about 8,000 plants. Most of the original trees were 

 raised by myself near Zanesville, Ohio, last year, 

 and taken up in October, while the leaf was still 

 green and flourishing, packed in boxes with a small 

 quantity of earth, and arrived here in December. 

 They were then placed in a cellar and the roots 

 covered with earth. The latter part of May last, 

 (not so early by a month as would have been best,) 

 the branches and stocks were cut into what are call- 

 ed " single bud cuttings," about an inch in length, 

 and planted separate from the roots. Every root, 

 and nearly every bud to the very extremity of the 

 green branches, vegetated and grew rapidly and 

 are now from three to over five feet high, with nu- 

 merous stalks and collateral branches covered with 

 foliage. 



These 8,000 trees include a few that survived a 

 long passage from the south, in the extreme hot 

 weather of June. They were then cut up and plant- 

 ed ; few of these vegetated at all, and those that 

 did delayed to start till some time in July. These 

 are not now more than six inches to two feet high. 

 This disaster, together with the loss of about fifty 

 ounces of eggs by premature hatching, frustrated my 

 design of feeding a large nuniber of worms the past 

 season. 



I fed about twenty thousand worms in the early 

 part of the season, which by accident had prema- 

 turely hatched, but owing to the misfortune that 

 happened to my southern trees, I was obliged to 

 have recourse to the white, and native mulberry, to 

 aid in bringing my worms to maturity. My Ohio 

 Perotted trees afforded foliage as early as the native 

 or white, were devoured more greedily by the 

 worms, and were procured from the trees with one 

 quarter part the trouble. 



I also present for premium, three small specimens 

 of silk, from the worms above-mentioned ; reeled 

 and manufactured in my family. No. 1, is a speci- 



