mulberry. The tree is very vigorous and upright ' 

 in its growth. The leaves, in a light, friable, 

 rich, and humid soil, are large and cordiform, but 

 in a dry and arid soil, they are of less size, elipti- 

 cal, and without the heart-shaped indentation ; 

 their breadth is stated to be six inches, and their 

 length eight; but in rich soils they are sometimes 

 eight inches in breadth, and ten in length, or 

 even more. They are curled or convex on their 

 surface, of a deep shining green, and eminently 

 beautiful. 



Some account of this plant so lately introduced 

 to Frajxce and to Europe, is contained in the Silk 

 Culturist, No. 2, a valuable work published by 

 Dr. Felix Pascalis, of N. Y. It is contained in a 

 letter to the author from Havre, and is as follows. 

 " Samuel Perrottet, a member of the Linnrcan 

 Society of Paris, employed by Government as a 

 travelling Botanist, returned to this port after a 

 voyage of thirty-four months. He brought with 

 him eighty-four boxes of various dimensions, 

 containing one hundred and fifty-eight species ol 

 living plants, to the number of five hundred and 

 thirty-four individuals. All these productions 

 had been procured in the seas of Asia, or gather- 

 ed on the coast, or in the lands of Cayenne. From 

 the commencement of the present century, there 

 had never before been so vast an importation 

 one so extensive in number, for rare genera, spe- 

 cies, and families, and vegetable productions, or 

 their seeds. All of them passed under my exam- 

 ination, and they rather appeared to have come 

 out of a green house than from a ship. 



" In this immense collection was the Morus 

 Multicaulis, thus called by Perrottet ; for the firs 

 lime ascertained to be the real Chinese Mulberry 

 Morus Jllba Sinensis, of which every silk grow 

 er and culturist should endeavor to multiply the 

 species. It has been deposited in the Royal Gar 

 den. Monsieur Perrottet says that it grows will 

 many shoots from the roots, with tender stems 

 and large foliage, of a much more nourishing na 

 ture than the European mulberry. 



" Chinese inhabitants assured him, that to thi 

 tree, the disciples of Confucius are indebted fo 

 the prosperity and solidity of their empire. 



"The Morus Multicaulis is already propaga 

 ting in France and probably will be substitute 

 and preferred to all the other varieties. Amonj 

 the other qualities of the plant, it is affirmed i 

 China, that a less quantity of this foliage is re 

 quired for the precious insects, than of that whici 

 we are obliged to provide for them. Monsieur P 

 has left the tree in Cayenne, where it is now 

 flourishing in dry and barren soils." 



Remarks on the culture and uses of the Moru 

 Multicaulis by M. Perrottet, Agricultura 

 Botanist, and Traveller of the Marine an 

 Colonies From the ' Jlnnals of Fromont.'' 

 "The Morus Mullicaulis, which we notice 



for the first time in the Jlnnales de la Societie 

 "innenne de Paris for 1824, appears to have 

 riginated in the elevated regions of China; from 



hence it has been disseminated throughout the 

 ow plains near the sea shore. It is believed it is 

 ultivated in all parts of that vast empire, where 

 culture of the silk worms is an object of 

 ommercial importance. From Canton it was in- 

 roduced into Manilla and all the Islands in the 

 Asiatic Archipelago, where it was only cultivated 

 or ornamenting gardens. The Chinese are en- 

 itled to the credit of this introduction, who in 

 emigrating from their country have from motives 



f industry, endeavored to multiply it, that they 

 might render it useful to them, in the new coun- 

 ry of their adoption. 



"The fortunate discovery of this precious shrub 

 occurred in the garden of a Chinese cultivator at 

 Manilla, who, after having informed us of its pro- 

 jerties, and the important purpose for which it 

 was used in his own country, yielded to our so- 



icitations and sold us two bushels for ten Spanish 

 piastres, assuring us that he had introduced it in- 

 to Manilla, where it had been considerably extend- 

 ed. 



"In August we brought it from Manilla, the 

 capital of the Phillipine Islands, and first intro- 

 duced it into the Isle of Bourbon, from thence in- 

 to Cayenne and France. At a later period it was 

 sent from Cayenne to Martinique,and from France 

 to Guadaloupe, and also to Senegal, where it has 

 been considerably multiplied. The numerous 

 plants which are already disseminated in the di- 

 vers climates of Africa, America, and Europe, have 

 been all produced from the two individuals, which 

 we procured at Manilla. 



* * * " Among the number of mulberries now 

 cultivated by the Chinese, for the education of 

 silk worms, the Morus Multicaulis appears to be 

 the most esteemed of all, not only for the facility 

 with which it is propagated and grows, but still 

 more for the essentially nutritive property which 

 the leaves possess. We have been enabled to 

 verify this important fact during the five years 

 which we passed in Senegal. * * * The charac- 

 ters which essentially distinguish this mulberry 

 from the other varieties, are those which result, 

 1st, from the remarkable property which the 

 roots possess of throwing up numerous small flexi- 

 ble stalks, without forming a principal trunk ; 2d, 

 from the remarkable development which the 

 thin, tender, and soft leaves speedily acquire, and 

 the promptitude with which they are renewed ; 

 * * * and 4th, and lastly, from the extraordinary 

 facility with which the stalks and branches strike 

 root, as cuttings, without particular care, even be- 

 fore they have acquired a ligneous consistence, 



* * * "Besides the advantages which we hare 

 already named, we may still add, that they are ad- 

 mirably calculated for forming regular plantations-, 



