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dition, and as the fruiting season lasts a month or more the 

 nuisance is a serious one. 



The fact that the Russian mulberry is generally dioeciously 

 flowered makes it possible to avoid the fruit nuisance when this 

 species is desired as a shade tree. By using cuttings from 

 staminate flowered trees of desirable form and vigor a con- 

 siderable degree of uniformity may be secured. At the fair 

 grounds at Anthony, Kan., may be found a very fine illustra- 

 tion of the desirability of the "male mulberry" for shade and 

 ornament. The trees are sufficiently uniform to make the ap- 

 pearance of the rows very pleasing and the rate of growth has 

 been especially good, trees set four years ago having attained 

 a height of fourteen feet and a diameter of four inches. 



PLATE 23. Male mulberry at fair grounds, Anthony. 



While most of the Russian mulberry trees are more or less 

 irregular in form and many are decidedly crooked and ill- 

 shaped, an occasional tree is sufficiently symmetrical and hand- 

 some to suggest the possibility of securing a uniform type by 

 propagating from them by means of cuttings. One of the most 

 handsome trees seen in southwestern Kansas is a mulberry 

 tree, perfect in form and symmetry, on the farm of Jas. Lewis, 

 about midway between Bluff City and Anthony. 



One mulberry tree at Glover park, Bluff City, planted in 

 1888, has obtained the height of forty feet, a spread of forty- 

 two feet, with a diameter of twenty inches two feet from the 



