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states ; and as it ripens at the very period in midsummer 
when fruits are scarcest, there can be no more welcome ad- 
dition to our pomonal treasures, than its deep purple and 
luscious berries. According to Loudon, it is a tree of great 
durability ; in proof of which he quotes a specimen at Sion 
House, 300 years old, which is supposed to have been planted 
in the 16th century, by the botanist Turner. 
The White mulberry, (M. alba,) is the species upon the 
leaves of which the silk worms are fed. The fruit is insipid 
and tasteless, and the tree is but little cultivated to embellish 
ornamental plantations, though one of the most useful in the 
world, when its importance in the production of silk is taken 
into account. There are a great number of varieties of this 
species to be found in the different nurseries and silk planta- 
tions ; among them the Chinese mulberry, (M. multicaulis ,) 
grows rapidly, but scarcely forms more than a large shrub, at 
the north ; and its very large, tender, and soft green foliage is 
interesting in a large collection. The fruit is we believe of 
no importance ; but it is the most valnable of all mulberries 
as food for the silk worm, while its growth is the most 
vigorous, and its leaves more easily gathered than those of 
any other tree of the genus. 
The Paper Mulberry Tree. Broussonetia . 
Nat . Ord. Urticacese. Lin. Syst. Dioecia, Tetrandria. 
The Paper mulberry is an exotic tree of a low growth, 
rarely exceeding twenty-five or thirty feet, indigenous to 
Japan and the South Sea Islands, but very common in our 
