li6 THE GARDENER** VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
the latter part of May, and flower nearly about the 
fame time, or foon after, fucceeded by the fruit in 
June, increafing ingrowth till Auguft, then ripens ; 
■continuing advancing to maturity in daily fuccefliori 
till September, which, in the Moms nigra, or Com¬ 
mon Black Mulberry, becomes ot a deep, black-red 
colour, when in full perfection, and lhouldbe gathered 
accordingly. 
The propagation, or way of raiffng the Mulberry 
trees, is principally by layers and cuttings of the young 
fhoots, and occaiionally by grafting, and fometimes 
by feed. 
But by layers and cuttings, is the mod: general me¬ 
thods ; the laying may be performed in autumn or 
fpring, either from young trees that have been headed 
down to the bottom, to form llools to furnilh lower 
fhoots near the ground, convenient for laying down in 
the earth, or the lower branches of grown-up trees, 
having pots of earth placed upon Hands, elevated 
near enough to admit of laying the branches therein; 
and, in either method, laying the young (hoots in the 
earth, they will be rooted in one fummer, for planting 
off in autumn following: cuttings of the young (hoots, 
planted in the fpring, in a (hady border, will grow, or 
may be planted feveral together in pots, and plunged 
in a hot-bed, it will forward their rooting fooner; alfo 
ftrong (hoots of the year, planted in fummer, in a 
north border, will emit roots the fame feafon ; and 
when the layers and cuttings are properly rooted, tranf- 
plant them into nurfery-rows, and trained up each with 
a clean, Angle item, three or four, to five or fix feet, 
for ftandards; or any of the Common Mulberry, de- 
figned for walls and efpaliers, train them with fhort 
Hems, and low-branching heads accordingly, as di¬ 
rected for peaches, &c. 
Or by grafting. &c. may propagate particular fpe- 
cies, upon (locks of the Common Black Mulberry. 
Orlikewife, to raife Mulberry trees from feed, it 
fhould be faved from the ripe fruit in autumn, and 
preferved dry till the fpring, then fowed in March or 
April, in a bed of light earth, half an inch deep; 
and when the feedlings are a year old, prick them into 
nurfery-beds, in the fpring, in rows a foot afunder, 
and after having advanced to two years growth, 
tranfplant them in wider nurfery-rows, and trained to 
proper fizes for final tranfplanting. 
When the young Mulberry trees, raifed by the 
above methods, are advanced four or five, to fix or 
eight feet growth, they are proper for tranfplanting, 
either the common forts as fruit-trees, or this, and the 
others, in pleafurable plantations, for variety, each 
agreeable to the foregoing intimations. 
BEAD TREE, of the 
Clafs and Order 
Decrndria Monogynia, 
1 en Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having test 
Stamina, or Male Genitals, and one Pijlillum, or Fe¬ 
male. 
IN the Family of Mf, li a is one tolerably-hardy, 
deciduous, curious, ornamental tree, of moderate lla- 
ture, with a fpreading, branchy head, adorned with 
large, doubly-pinnated, winged leaves, elegantly beau¬ 
tiful, and long bunches of quinquepetalous, blue 
flowers; having fmall, five-pointed cups; a corolla of 
five long, fpear-lhape, fpreading petals, and a mo- 
nopetalous nedlarium, as long as the corolla; ten lta- 
mina, a conical germen, fupporting a cylindric ilyle ; 
and the germen grows a globular, drupaceous, foft 
fruit, including a roundilh, five-furrowed nut, of five 
cells, furniihed with five feeds, by which the tree is 
commonly propagated. 
One Species, viz. 
Melia Axcdarach —(Azedarach) or Bi-pinnated- 
leaved Bead Tree.- 
A fmall, or moderate, deciduous tree, growing 
twelve or fifteen feet high—the leaves (large, dark- 
green') bi-pinnated, or doubly-winged; and long 
bunches of blue flowers.—Native of Syria. (Warm, 
dry fstuation.) 
Varieties .—Common, Deciduous, Bi-pinnated Bead 
Tree. 
Ever-green, Ever-flowering Bead Tree, 
of Ceylon. (Fender, requiring con- 
Jiant protection in winter.) 
This curious, ornamental tree, highly merits a place 
in principal (hrubberies, but mull have a (helcered, 
warm, dry fituation, or planted againft a fouth wall; 
and fome kept in pots, to move under (helter of a 
frame, or green-houfe, in winter; and is alfo retained 
in the green-hpufe colleftions, to have conllanc thelter 
in winter, along with other exotics in that conferva- 
tory; but admits of planting in the full ground, in a 
(heltered compartment, as before obfexved; in which 
it will make a fine, ornamental appearance in fummer; 
the ever-green variety requires the conilant proteftion 
of a green-houfe, or Hove, in winter. 
They flower ornamentally in fummer, but do not 
always produce ripe fruit, or feed, in this country. 
