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seller of the Perottet mulberry. His character, where he is 

 known, is a guaranty against any intentional misrepresentation 

 on his part. His good fortune in the sale of his trees has 

 enabled him, if so he pleases, to change the plain steel bows 

 of his spectacles into golden ones ; but whether it has had 

 any effect upon the glasses themselves, we must submit to the 

 judgment of others. 



The Northampton cultivators, as far as I know, universally,, 

 and Timothy Smith, of Amherst — upon whose careful judg- 

 ment and experience much reliance may be placed, as well as 

 Calvin Haskell, of Harvard, who has been a long time engaged 

 in the cultivation of the mulberry — unite emphatically, in the 

 opinion that the Perottet is not sufficiently hardy for our cli- 

 mate ; and that to cultivate it with any view to leave it ex- 

 posed to the rigors of our climate would be a hazardous, and in 

 all probability an utterly futile attempt. The testimony of 

 many other cultivators of the Perottet mulberry, in this State, 

 entirely concur in the opinions expressed above. 



With respect to the value of the Multicaulis leaf as feed for 

 the worms, D. McLean, of New Jersey, expresses the opinion 

 that it may be too succulent for the health of the worms ; 

 though it does not appear that the worms fed by him on the 

 Multicaulis or Perottet mulberry suffered in this way. This is 

 the opinion of other cultivators of silk ; but farther experiments 

 are desired before this point can be established. 



Miss Gertrud Rapp, of Economy, Penn., in a letter to the 

 editor of the American Silk Journal, says : 



" In regard to the mulberry, I would earnestly recommend, 

 especially to the silk growers of the northern and middle states 

 not to neglect the cultivation of the white Italian or a similar 

 mulberry tree, as by raising the Multicaulis only, the best crops 

 (which are produced in the fore part of the summer,) are lost. 

 The Multicaulis is a most excellent addition to, but not a per- 

 fect substitute for, the other kinds. They ought to go together. 

 Several years ago, we received among others a kind of mul- 

 berry under the double name of morus broussa or expansa, 



