FRUITS VARIETIES AND CULTURE. 533 



Professor L. II. Bailey, of Cornell University, makes 

 the following- classification of the mulberry: 



1. The White Mulberry group (Morns alba). 



(a) Russian Mulberry (car. Tartarica). 



(b) Nervosa Mulberry (var. Venosa). 



2. The Multicaulis group (Morns latifolia). 



3. The Japanese group (Morns Japonica). 



4. The Black Mulberry group (Morns nigra). 



5. The Bed or Native Mulberry group {Moms rubra), 

 (a) Lampasas Mulberry (var. tomentosd). 



Black Mulberry (Moms nigra) is a native of Persia, 

 and is a slow-growing, low-branched tree, with large, 

 tough leaves, often tive-lobed, producing largo and deli- 

 cious fruit, frequently an inch and a half long, and an 

 inch across; black, and fine flavored. Tree a very poor 

 grower. 



Red Mulberry (Moms rubra) is a native of our woods; 

 leaves large, rough, and generally heart-shaped; fruit an 

 inch long, sweet and pleasant, but inferior to the black. 

 The vigorous growth and fine spreading head of this 

 variety make it worthy of culture as an ornamental tree, 

 it is the most tenacious of life of any tree we have ever 

 seen. Twenty-seven years since we dug one up in our 

 garden, and annually up to the present time shoots put up 

 from fragments left in the ground, and thus far we have 

 been unable to exterminate it. If the cherry is planted 

 near the house, and the Mulberry a little more distant, 

 the latter will often attract the birds from the former. 



The varieties recommended for the South are: 



Dowxixg's Everbearing. — Originated by Charles 

 Downing, of Newburgh, New York, from the seed of 

 Morns multicaulis. Tree very vigorous and productive; an 

 estimable variety, and surpassed by none except the black 

 English, and possessing the same rich, subacid flavor. It 



