534 OF MULBERRIES, 



at the same time apply the Composition. If, how- 

 ever, the heads should become too full of wood, it 

 will be necessary to thin them, as the fruit is larger 

 and better flavoured where the heads are kept thin 

 of wood. 



I have found many of these trees in a very de- 

 cayed state, with the trunks quite hollow; and 

 have tried the efficacy of the Composition on several 

 of them, cutting out all the dead wood and cankery 

 parts of some, an^ heading down others that were 

 stunted and sickly. After these operations they 

 put forth vigorous branches, and bore excellent 

 crops of fruit, more than d^ ble the size of that 

 which they produced in their former state. 



I would advise those, who have any old decayed 

 Mulberry-trees, to treat them in the same manner; 

 but those which are very much decayed should be 

 headed down ; this will throw them into a healthy 

 bearing state, and in two or three years they will 

 produce plenty of fine fruit. 



In the lawn in front of the house of John Grove, 

 Esq. at Little Chelsea, there are four old Mulberry- 

 trees, which a few years ago were so very much de- 

 cayed, and so full of wounds and dead wood, that 

 they produced very little fruit, and that of a small 

 size. I had all the decayed and rotten wood care- 

 fully cut out, and the branches trimmed, and then 

 the Composition applied. In the first season they 

 sent forth fine shoots, and in the second produced 

 plenty of fruit, of a better flavour, and double the 

 size of that which they formerly bore. 



