the intense cold of winter, when the plant is 

 young, and before its exterior coating and wood 

 becomes hardened. 



A single remark with respect to the soil will 

 be sufficient. If it be not in good tilth, it should 

 he manured in the hole, if in standard trees, or 

 inthedrill if in hedge rows, with acompost com- 

 piised of one-eighth lime, three-eighths mould or 

 decomposed leaves from the woods, one-fourth 

 stable manure, half rotted, and the remaining 

 fourth, leached ashes, to be prepared in a heap, 

 and suffered to remain to mellow three or four 

 months, to be turned up and mixed two or three 

 times in the course of the process. If after the 

 young trees should be set out, a long continued 

 drought should occur, they should be watered 

 two or three times a week. 



VARIETIES OF THE WHITE MULBERRY. 



The white Mulberry is a tree not known by its 

 fruit. Two varieties bear white berries, one red 

 and another black, and trees have been known 

 to bear different kinds of fruit on the same tree. 



METHOD OF SAVING SEED- 



As the fruit ripens, the tree should be shaken 

 every morning, and the fruit that falls gathered 

 with that which may have fallen of itself. Put the 

 fruit into a tub and press and rub it till the ber- 

 ries are completely worked into a common mass. 

 They should then be washed in water until the 

 pulp is completely separated from the seed. Du- 

 ring the process of washing, the water must be 

 repeatedly changed, and in pouring off the dirty 

 water, the seed which swims must be suffered 

 to escape, as it is not good. When the seed is 

 thus perfectly cleansed and separated, it must be 

 spread on cloths in the shade to dry. When 

 perfectly dry, it should be put up in bottles, well 

 corked, which should be kept where they would 

 never be exposed to light, air, or dampness. The 

 White Mulberry seed are of an obtuse triangular 

 shape, and of a dull, dark yellow color, and ve- 

 ry full of oil. 



MODE OF TESTING SEED. 



Soak it in hot water a few hours, when the 

 seed which is really good will sink to the bottom, 



the worthless will continue to float on the sur- 

 face, the latter must be thrown away as it will 

 not vegetate. 



PREPARATION OF SEED BEDS TIME OF SOWING, 

 &C. 



1. To sow an ounce of seed, prepare a bed 

 50 feet long and 4 feet broad. Manure it well 

 with a compost composed of one-third stable 

 manure, one-third ashes, and one-third decom- 

 posed leaves from the woods, or garden mould ; 

 dig deep, pulverise finely, and then lay the bed 

 off in drills 12 inches apart, J or \ of an inch 

 deep; sow the seed as thick as you would that of 

 onions, or parsnips; cover with rich mould, press 

 the mould down gently, but sufficiently to cause 



the seed to come into contact with the earth ; and 

 should the weather be dry, water the seed bed 

 every other evening, it will assist in promoting 

 the germination of the seed and the vigorous 

 growth of the plants. 



2. The best lime for sowing the seed is from 

 the 1st of April to the beginning of May; and, 

 indeed, in favourable situations, if sown as late 

 as the beginning of June, they would succeed ; 

 but if sown in the spring, the earlier the better, 

 as the plant will thereby have time to grow to 

 such a size, anH the bark become so well har- 

 dened, as to offer something like a guaranty to 

 their getting over the-first winter, which is deci- 

 dedly the most critical period with the young 

 plants. If you should determine upon sowing in 

 the spring, turn up your plant-bed deeply the 

 preceding autumn, and let it remain in a rough 

 state, to derive advantage from the fertilizing ef- 

 fects of the winter's frosts, manure in the spring, 

 dig it again, pulverize and rake fine, lay off as 

 above directed in drills, and sow your seed. 



Should it not be convenient to sow in the early 

 part of the season, you may do so with perfect 

 security in the first week of August ; your bed 

 to be thorough!) perpared, by being well man- 

 ured, turned over with the spade two or three 

 times, and pulverized and raked well. Whether 

 sown in the spring, or summer, the bed must be 

 kept clean of weeds,the ground to be stirred occa- 

 sionally between the drills, receive a watering of a 

 weak solution of soot and water, diluted barn- 

 yard water, or soap suds once a week, or fortnight ; 

 and, in dry weather, twice a week in addition 

 with water, it being important to push the growth 

 of the young plants the first season. The wa- 

 tering should not be carried on after August. 

 By pursuing this nourishing and forcing course, 

 you may urge your plants so far forward as to be 

 able to transplant the stronger ones into nurse- 

 ry beds the ensuing spring after sowing the 

 seed. The fruit of the White Mulberry when 

 ripe, if put in the ground whole, in drills, will 

 vegetate immediately, and if the plants be kept 

 iveeded, and treated as directed above, will be 



sufficiently advanced to stand the winter with 

 the aid of a slight covering. The first fruit of 

 this tree ripens about June. 



The seed should be soaked forty-eight hours 

 in a solution of soot and hot water before sow- 

 ing, drained through a sieve, rolled in plaster and 

 then sowed. An ounce will yield from 5,000 to 

 8,000 plants. 



The first winter the plant-beds must be cover- 

 ed with long stable manure, leaves or straw, to 

 be confined with imall twigs of pine or ever- 

 green. Matting will also answer as a covering. 

 This should be put on as soon as the black frosts 

 come, and kept on until the middle of the ensu- 

 ing April ; to be then removed cautiously, so as 



