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states ; and as it ripens at the very period in midsummei 
when fruits are scarcest, there can be no more welcome 
addition 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 silkworms 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 
plantations ; among them the Chinese mulberry {M. multi- 
caulis) 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 valuable 
of all mulberries as food for the silkworm, 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. Urticaceee. 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 
gardens. It is remarkable for the great variety of forms 
exhibited in its foliage ; as upon young trees it is almost 
