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and two more near the junction of Loring Avenue. 

 There is one in Beverly near Centreville, and others 

 on the Page estate in Dan vers, and elsewhere The 

 "Morns multicaulis," over which such a furore arose 

 many years ago when it was thought that silk culture 

 might be introduced into this neighborhood, is a variety 

 of this tree. 



The Russian mulberry (Morns tartarica) has recently 

 been introduced in Salem. Mr. Edw. S. Rogers has 

 it in his garden ; and a tree fifteen feet high, in the 

 rear of the museum building, has fruited abundantly 

 about the first of July for the past three years. 



The red mulberry (Morus rubra) is an American 

 tree and grows to large size. There is a fine tree 

 of this species, six feet and three inches in circum- 

 ference, in the garden of the Nichols estate on Federal 

 street. This tree is just about one hundred years old. 

 It begins to ripen its blackish fruit the first of 

 July. There is a red mulberry of very striking appear- 

 ance in Ipswich, in a front yard by the common, and 

 nearly opposite the Heard estate. Its head is almost a 

 perfect umbrella, and the trunk cannot be far from ten 

 feet in circumference. 



The black mulberry from Persia, common throughout 

 Europe, is not, so far as I have seen, cultivated here. 

 It is a small tree and its name is often used erroneously 

 for the red mulberry. The fruit of either of these 

 trees may be called black or dark red. 



Half hardy varieties of the tig (Ficus carica) are 

 cultivated here, and Mr. Robert Manning has succeeded 

 in carrying a large plant through the winter, out of 

 doors, in his garden on Dearborn street, by laying 



