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SILK GROWER'S MANUAL. 15 



[From the California Farmer, December 25, 1857. J 



Mons. Prevost has a large plantation of the mulberry, 

 of different kinds, for feeding silk worms. There is no 

 tree that grows so rapid, and the large rich leaves make 

 the limbs hang pendant like the weeping willow. It is 

 certainly important that the mulberry should be brought 

 into extensive cultivation, both for its merits as food of 

 the silkworm, for fruit, and as an ornamental tree ; for 

 each the tree is valuable. 



Neatness, order, and good taste are manifest in these 

 gardens. Mons. P. has made a fine entrance to his 

 grounds over the river, by a new bridge, and it will pay 

 the purchaser of a quantity to visit this garden it 

 will well repay them ; and Mons. P. is truly worthy of 

 patronage, as one skilled and reliable in his business. 



[From the California Farmer, Aug. 17, I860.] 

 THE TRIUMPH OF THE SILKWORM IN CALIFORNIA. 



Nearly seven years since we announced in this jour- 

 nal that this climate was peculiarly adapted to the grow- 

 ing of the mulberry and the successful raising of silk- 

 worms, and the manufacture of silk, and asserted that 

 in coming years the women of California would wear 

 garments made of California Silk. Each year since 

 that time we have called public attention to this very 

 ^portant subject, and we have urged upon our Legis- 



