532 GARDENING FOB THE SOUTH. 



Pear, ship well and find ready sale; the Avocada 

 Pear, has brought good prices in the New York market. 

 Some, like the foregoing, the Star Apple and the Hog 

 Plum, are agreeable to most palates upon first acquaint- 

 ance; others, like the Sugar Apple, Cherimoya and Sour- 

 sop, which are much esteemed by those accustomed to 

 the fruit, require an acquired taste to be appreciated. A 

 number are grown for home use, almost or quite exclu- 

 sively, either because too tender to transport, like the 

 Sugar Apple and Pawpaw, or for their value for culinary 

 purposes; of the latter, the Otaheite Gooseberry is a 

 valuable acid fruit for cooking and preserving. The 

 Jamaica Sorrel is not a fruit in the proper sense of the 

 term, but produces a pulpy calyx, which makes an excel- 

 lent substitute for cranberries. The acid Soursop is used 

 for flavoring, preparing drinks, etc., and is much esteemed 

 in sickness. The Tamarind bears a pod with a pleasant 

 acid pulp which, preserved in sugar, finds ready sale in 

 the general market." 



MULBERRY.— (Morus.) 



This genus includes two species worthy of cultivation, 

 both hardy, deciduous trees, ripening their fruits in May 

 with the later strawberries. The fruit is of very agree- 

 able flavor, and of abundant subacid juice. An agree- 

 able wine may be made of the juice. All the species of 

 Mulberry are of the easiest culture, and are generally pro- 

 pagated by cuttings of the branches or roots. The former 

 should be shoots of the last season, having one joint of old 

 w r ood; they may be three feet long, and buried half their 

 length in the soil. The tree requires little or no pruning. 



The soil should be a rich, deep, sandy loam. The fruit 

 falls when ripe; hence, wdien the tree commences bearing, 

 the surface below should be kept in short turf, that the 

 fruit may be picked from the clean grass. 



