168 TREATISE ON THE .CULTURE AN1 



Four large Mulberry-trees are dill (landing on the fite of am 

 old kitchen-garden, now part of the pleafure-ground, at Sion- 

 Houfe, which, perhaps, may have flood there ever fince that 

 houfe was a monaftery. The late Duke of Northumberland 

 lias been heard to fay, that thefe trees were above 300 years 

 old. 



At the Priory near Stanmore, Middlefex (the feat of the 

 Marquis of Abercorn), there are alfo fome antient Mulberry- 

 trees. The Priory was formerly a religious houfe. 



In a very old garden at Chelfea, which belonged to the 

 late John Browning, efq. (who was a very good botanift, and 

 had a large collection of trees and plants) there is one of the 

 largeft Mulberry-trees that I ever law, and which appears to 

 be extremely old. 



Gerard, who publifhed his Hiflory of Plants in 1597, fays, 

 in that book, that Mulberry-trees then grew in fun dry- 

 gardens in England. 



Thofe commonly cultivated in this Country are? 



1. The Common Black Mulberry- tree, which is much 

 efteemed for its delicate fruit. This is now common in 

 mofl parts of Europe, except where the Winters are very 

 fevere. There is a variety of this with jagged leaves, and 

 fin all er fruit ; but Mr. Miller fays, that it is a diftincl fpecies, 

 a native of Sicily ; and that the fruit has no flavour ; con- 

 iequently, it is not worth cultivating. There were fome of 

 thefe trees in Chelfea- gardens. 



2. The White Mulberry. This tree is raifed in great 

 abundance in Italy, and other fouthern countries, for the 



leaves, 



