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that too much moisture would injure the plants, 

 placing pans, containing a small quantity of flour 

 of sulphur, under each light, will go far to banish the 

 insect. 



In conclusion it may be added, that, in the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine, Mr. Harrison has described a 

 method of raising young melon plants from cuttings 

 of the points of the leaders or laterals, which he 

 asserts are very early fruitful, and answer full as 

 well as seedlings. The idea is feasible ; but as the 

 writer has not tried the plan himself, he cannot speak 

 of it from experience. 



SECT. XV. 



MULBERRY. 



This is so old and well known a fruit in this 

 country, that it needs no particular description : one 

 species only is cultivated for the fruit, namely, the 

 black. It is a very long-lived tree ; some now 

 standing have been known, as appears from old 

 deeds, for three hundred years ! 



The tree thrives best in a soft kindly loam of 

 good depth, and on a sand or gravelly subsoil. The 

 trees are usually trained as standards in the nursery 

 after being raised from layers. Sometimes trained 

 as dwarfs for walls in the northern part of the island. 

 The fruitfulness of the tree . depends very much on 

 the warmth of the weather at the time it is in 



