. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. aits. The most striking variations are in thelobing of the leaves. A. Lis. mostly bright and glabrous above, a7id Style very short or practically , Linn. White Figs. 1430, 1432 light green, rather sitiaii. siiiuoth or very nearly soabove
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. aits. The most striking variations are in thelobing of the leaves. A. Lis. mostly bright and glabrous above, a7id Style very short or practically , Linn. White Figs. 1430, 1432 light green, rather sitiaii. siiiuoth or very nearly soabove and often sliining, the veins prominent beneathand whitish, variously lobed or divided, the basal lobesunequal, the teeth large and for the most part roundedor nearly obtuse, the branches gray or grayish yellow:fr. variable, usually narrow, 1-2 in. long, white or violet,very sweet. China. —J/on(.s alba has been cultivatedfrom the earliest times, chiefly for feeding the silkworm. It is a frequent tree along roadsides and in theold yards in the eastern states, where the trunk some-times attains a diameter of two feet. This half-wildform usually has rather small rounded shining leaveswith very large rounded teeth, and bears little whitishor violet fruits, which are very sweet. Sometimes the 1034 MORUS MORUS. -- iSti. >tijii2u^/i. -* 142S. Teas Weeping Mulberry fruits are an inch long, but they are oftener only halfthnt length and one sometimes finds trees on which thefruits are bareh a quarter of an inch in length. Nowand then atiet bears fruit neailj orquite black. Birds,poultrj and hogs arefond of these Mulber-ries The trees are usu-ally very thick-toppedand bushy growers,but occasionally one isseen which, when\ oung has branches asstiaight and trim as aNoithern Spy half-wild treesaie seedlings, and thisi( ( ounts for their var-labihtj Vir ( 1/ latdrica, Linn.).Klssiin vs 1422-25, 14ai. Ah ird> type of Mornsalba which was intro-duce
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