. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. plantations are formed of graftedtrees. Each plant is grafted from a foot to twofeet above the ground, and rarely higher. Thetrees are planted in rows from five to six feetapart, and are allowed to grow from six to tenfeet high only, for the convenience of gatheringthe leaves. In training them they are kept openin the centre; the general outline is circular, andthey are not unlike some of those dwarf apple-trees which are common in Euro
. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. plantations are formed of graftedtrees. Each plant is grafted from a foot to twofeet above the ground, and rarely higher. Thetrees are planted in rows from five to six feetapart, and are allowed to grow from six to tenfeet high only, for the convenience of gatheringthe leaves. In training them they are kept openin the centre; the general outline is circular, andthey are not unlike some of those dwarf apple-trees which are common in European accompanying sketch gives a good represen-tation of the habit and form of one of those treeswhich has attained its full size. The different methods of gathering the leavesin these districts are curious and instructive, andshow clearly that the cultivators well understandthe laws of vegetable physiology. Leaves are nottaken at all from plants in their young state, asthis would be injurious to their future productive- Chap. XVI. THE MULBERRY. 345 ness. In other instances a few leaves only aretaken from the Irishes, while the remainder are. Mulberry Tree. allowed to remain npon the shoots until thesummer growth is completed. In the latter casethe leaves are invariably left at the ends of theshoots. When the bushes have attained their full size,the young shoots with the leaves are clijoped closeoff by the stumps, and shoots and leaves carriedhome together to the farm-yard to be pluckedand jjrepared for the worms. In the case ofyoung trees the leaves are generally gathered by 346 THE MULBERRY TREE. Chap. XYI. the hand, while the shoots are left to grow ouuntil the autumn. At this period all the planta-tions are gone over carefully; the older bushesare pruned close in to the stumps, while the shootsof the younger ones are only shortened back alittle to allow them to attain to the desired ground is then manured and well dug remains in this state unt
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