56 ON 3IULBERRY TREES. 



TEiMPLE CUTLER'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Mulberry Trees: 



Gentleaien — I offer for premium a nursery of one 

 sixth of an acre, containing about 2000 multicaulis mul- 

 berry trees, now of two seasons growth. These trees 

 were planted in June 1840, in single bud cuttings, on a 

 very poor soil, without manure. Being planted late, 

 very few of them attained to more than 6 or 8 inches 

 high. So small were they, that I did not offer them 

 for premium last year, being in a separate lot from those 

 I did offer. I left part of them standing in the field 

 through the winter without covering of any kind. My 

 object was to ascertain their ability to bear the rigor 

 of winter in this climate. Every tree, and every 

 branch, was as sound in the spring as those taken up in 

 the fall and put in the cellar, or, as our common fruit 

 trees. 



Many of these trees, together with the remainder of 

 the same lot from the cellar, were transplanted last 

 May to a better piece of ground, but which had no ma- 

 nure last year, and half a cord only of compost manure 

 was strewed in furrows 3 feet apart into which the 

 trees were set, the roots covered 2 or 3 inches deep. 

 The whole labor on this nursery was one day plough- 

 ing, transplanting and manuring, and half a day plough- 

 ing between the rows and hoeing twice, including all 

 pulling out of weeds. Every tree is alive and flourish- 

 ing, averaging about 4 feet, none being less than 

 2i, nor more than 5 feet high. 1 herewith exhibit 

 several leaves from these trees, without having taken 

 pains to select the largest. 



I wish those who condemn the mulberry orchards of 

 our County as not worth preserving, to examine for 

 themselves the one now presented, which, after having 

 been stripped of its foliage to feed two successive crops 

 of worms in the fore part of the season, of 10,000 at 



