170 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



wood. Plant them out in Autumn, if fine weather, or in the 

 month of March, in rows nine inches apart, and at the dis- 

 tance of two inches in the rows, leaving only two or three 

 buds above ground : mulch the ground with leaves or dung 

 well rotted, to keep it moift, and the plants will require little 

 watering. If they fucceed well, they may, next feafon, be 

 tranfplanted into a nurfery, and treated as directed for 

 layers. Thefe young trees, while they remain in the nurfery, 

 ihould be tranfplanted every three or four years. 



I would recommend planting of Mulberries in grafs or- 

 chards and pleafure grounds, becaufe the fined of the fruit, 

 when ripe, frequently drops, which, if it fall on dug or 

 ploughed ground, will be foiled and rendered unfit for ufe, 

 as the earth will adhere fo to the fruit as to render the 

 cleaning of it impracticable ; but if planted on lawns, or in 

 grafs orchards, the fruit can be picked up without receiving 

 any injury. Another reafon for planting thefe trees on lawns 

 or in orchards is, that, when full grown, they are too large 

 for a kitchen garden. The foil in which they thrive beft is a 

 rich, light, and deep earth. 



As the fruit is produced on the young wood, you fhould cut 

 out only fuch branches as crofs others, and fuch as are 

 decayed, or broken by any accident ; at the fame time apply 

 the Compofition. If, however, the heads fhould become too 

 full of wood, it will be neceflary to thin them, as the fruit is 

 larger and better flavoured where the heads are kept thin of 

 wood. 



I have found many of thefe trees in a very decayed ftate, 

 with the trunks quite hollow ; and have tried the efficacy of 

 the Compofition on feveral of them, cutting out all the dead - 

 wood and cankery parts of forne, and heading down others 



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