. 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. Gardening. P^^^ AA. £,vs. dull (jrecH, iiwsllit rough or i>ubescent. B. FiiU-grou-n lis. more than 4 in. long. multicaaiia, Perr. (,y&,hovidon. M. alba, var. latifblia. Bureau. M. Sinensis, Hort. M. 1430. Morus alba (XJ<). nigra, Linn. Black Mulberkt. Lvs. dark, dull green, rather large, tape
. 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. Gardening. P^^^ AA. £,vs. dull (jrecH, iiwsllit rough or i>ubescent. B. FiiU-grou-n lis. more than 4 in. long. multicaaiia, Perr. (,y&,hovidon. M. alba, var. latifblia. Bureau. M. Sinensis, Hort. M. 1430. Morus alba (XJ<). nigra, Linn. Black Mulberkt. Lvs. dark, dull green, rather large, tapering into a prominent point, commonly very rough above, usually not lobed, the base equal or very nearly so on both sides, the teeth rather small and close, the branches brown: fr. large, comparatively thick and fleshy, mostly dark-colored. The black Mulberry is a native of Asia, probably of Persia and adjacent regions. -This is the species which is cultivated in the Old World for its fruit. In America it is very little grown. It is not hardy, except in pro- tected places, in New England and New York. The Black Persian Mulberry of the South and of California is probably of this species. ribra, Linn. Native Red Mul- berry. Fig. 14:!3. Lvs. usually large, very various, those on the young shoots deeply lobed with very oblique and rounded sinsues, in the base of which there are no teeth, the upper surface rough and the lower one soft or variously pubescent, the teeth medium op comparatively small and either rounded or bluutish: fr. deep red, or when fully ripe almost black, variable in size, often very good, nearly always having an agreeable slight acidity. Mass. to Fla., Kans. and Tex., mostly in rich soils and bottom lands. 7 native Mulberry has been tried for the feeding of silkworms, but with indifferent success. At least three of the named fruit-bearing Mulberries be- long to it, and a yellow-leaved Mulberry, which is. Please note that these images are extracte
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