THE MULBERRY. 
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considerable size, ought to contain one or two trees. The fruit 
ripens in July, very soon after the season of cherries. It is 
rarely picked from the trees, as it falls as soon as ripe, and it is 
therefore the custom to keep the surface below it in short turfj 
and the fruit is picked from the clean grass. Or, if the surface 
is dug ground, it may be sown thickly with cress seed, six weeks 
previously to the ripening of the fruit, which will form a tem- 
porary carpet of soft verdure. 
The Red Mulberry (. Morns rubra , L.) is a native species, 
more or less common in our woods, with large, rough, heart- 
shaped or lobed leaves. The fruit is about an inch long, and 
very pleasant and palatable — though much inferiour to the 
Black English. It bears transplanting well, or is easily raised 
from seed, and may, undoubtedly, be greatly improved by re- 
peated reproduction in this way. As it forms a large orna- 
mental tree with a fine spreading head forty feet high, it is well 
deserving a place on the lawn, or near the house, in ornamental 
plantations. 
Johnson, a Seedling from Ohio. Fruit very large, oblong, 
cylindric ; blackish colour, sub-acid, and of mild, agreeable 
flavour. Growth of the wood strong and irregular. Leaves 
uncommonly large. 
The Black Mulberry, or English Mulberry, [Morus nigra , 
L.) is a very celebrated old fruit tree, originally from Asia, more 
or less commonly cultivated in all parts of Europe, but yet 
quite rare in this country. Its growth is slow, and it seldom 
attains a height of more than twelve or fifteen feet, forming a 
low, branching tree, with lobed leaves, but it is very long lived, 
and there is a specimen in England, at the seat of the Duke of 
Northumberland, 300 years old. In this country it is scarcely 
hardy enough north of New York, except in sheltered situations, 
An occasional extreme cold winter kills them ; they are also 
subject to canker and die off. 
The fruit is incomparably larger and finer than that of the 
Red Mulberry, being an inch and a half long, and nearly an 
inch across — black, and of delicious flavour. 
There are many varieties of the White Mulberry, commonly 
cultivated for silk, but which produce fruit of no value. 
The best soil for the Mulberry, is a rich, deep, sandy loam. 
The tree requires little or no pruning, and is of very easy cul- 
ture. It is usually propagated by cuttings, three feet long, 
planted in the spring, half their depth in the ground; cuttings 
made of pieces of the roots will also send up shoots and become 
plants. 
Everbearing . Originated here from seed of the Multicaulis. 
Tree very vigorous and very productive, an estimable variety, 
and surpassed by none except the Black English, and possesses 
the same rich subacid flavour. It continues in bearing a long time. 
