1840.] SENATE— No. 36. Ill 



March, of this present year, two gentlemen of Windham 

 County, Conn., called and desired to look at my trees, and 

 brought me in a twig cut from the top of one of the trees, 

 which had ripened to the very tip, and had stood the last most 

 severe cold winter uninjured. Yet I have since discovered 

 that in some parts of the tops of these same trees, some of the 

 young wood did not wholly escape uninjured. Yet in all the 

 low valleys of the northern rivers which have their sources 

 near the boundaries of Canada, and in the low and extended 

 plains of New England, the Multicaulis is liable to be injured 

 in its tops by the extreme severity of the winter. In spring 

 they rise up with a luxuriance of vegetation the most extraor- 

 dinary. Hence the mulberry should be kept low like planta- 

 tion of raspberries, as is the case in China and in India. In 

 this last named country, the mulberry tree in all its varieties is 

 an ever-green tree, but a deciduous tree in temperate regions. 

 This same system is now extending itself in France, as has 

 already the system of close planting and of low training, been 

 adopted almost universally as to the vine in vineyard culture, 

 in all the north and middle sections of that country." 



Mr. Kenrick adds, '' In my frequent visits to Portsmouth in 

 lower Virginia, in lat. 37° 12', in the years 1838 and 1839, 

 both durii]g winter and summer, I have particularly observed 

 extensive plantations; the trees at that place, in their hardi- 

 hood, bearing perfect resemblance to the oak, the wood of the 

 second year ripening to the very tip. At Middletown, in Mon- 

 mouth County, N. J., lat. 40° 22', this same mulberry equally 

 defies the severity of all their winters. This is nearly opposite 

 Staten Island." 



" The Morns Multicaulis is the only species of mulberry 

 known which grows equally as freely from the cuttings as the 

 willow. The variety called Canton roots not near so freely 

 either from cuttings or from layers, while the Alpine, so called, 

 is still more difficult to strike root, either from cuttings or 

 layers." 



Mr. Kenrick has been a highly successful cultivator and 



