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quantity of land, is more than double, than from stand- 

 ard trees in their best state, when the labor is much les- 

 sened. Seventh, women and children can gather the 

 food with perfect convenience from low trees, which they 

 cannot so easily do at all from large trees. 



Hosier and other modern writers of France, particu- 

 larly recommend this mode in preference to all others. 



John P. Gushing, Esq., of Belmont, in Watertown, a 

 gentleman who has resided many years in China, has 

 stated that the most approved mode of cultivating the 

 mulberries, as practiced in that country, consists in 

 keeping them low by annual prunings, like plantations 

 of raspberries. The same mode, according to Mr. Lou- 

 don, and also Mr. Bonafoux, is practiced in India. 



This system of keeping the trees low is certainly tho 

 best, and the only one we can follow with advantage for 

 our California silk culture. 



CHAPTER IX. 



MULBERRY TREES EVERYWHERE. 



The mulberry tree is the lest, the most useful, and, 

 consequently, the most valuable of all the trees known ; 

 more particularly in California, where it grows so easily 

 and so rapidly. I will try to demonstrate here, and 

 show how and why we ought to plant it everywhere, in 



