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Old Time Gardens 
that others there sought gold. He was a devoted 
promoter of the native silk industry, having vast 
plantations of Mulberries in many cities ; for one 
at Norfolk, Virginia, he was offered $100,000. It 
is a curious fact that the interest in Mulberry cul- 
ture and the practice of its cultivation was so uni- 
Garden at Prince Homestead, Flushing, Long Island. 
versal in his neighborhood (about the year 1830), 
that cuttings of the Chinese Mulberry {Morns multi- 
caulis ) were used as currency in all the stores in the 
vicinity of Flushing, at the rate of \i\ cents each. 
The Prince homestead, a fine old mansion, is 
here shown ; it is still standing, surrounded by that 
forlorn sight, a forgotten garden. This is of con- 
siderable extent, and evidences of its past dignity 
