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Of Thos. Wm. Coke, Esq. M.P, at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, there are two mulberry-trees trained to a trellis, upon a south wall. These trees are about 16 feet high, and the lateral extent of the branches of one of them is upwards of 94 feet, and the other exceeds 97 feet. They have been planted about 30 years ; and it is found that the fruit Oakley Sunglasses is much larger than that produced on standard trees, and their time of maturity much earlier, and affording an abundant succession from the middle of July until October. They are pruned twice a-year, leaving spurs of two inches long, which, at the winter pruning, is shortened to about an inch in length. It is both a common and a bad practice to make grass-plats under mulberrytrees, by this means retarding the ripening of the fruit by the coolness of the grass; whereas the heat reflected from the earth would greatly promote the ripening.The mulberry must have been a most valuable tree to the Persians and Chinese in ancient times, on account of it's leaves feeding the silk-worms, which enabled them to supply all the known world with silk, the price of which, in Europe, was an equal weight of pure gold, even as late as Justinian's time, A.D. 526. Madame de Genlis gives the Nike Air Max invention of Nike Air Max 90 silks to the Chinese : she relates in her work (La Botanique, Historique efc Litteraire) that the Empress Siling Chi, wif£ to Hoamti, was desired by that emperor to examine the silk-worms, and endeavour to turn their web Nike Shoes Australia to some useful purpose, which she did, after various trials and experiments; and by Moncler Jackets feeding them with mulberry-leaves, she discovered the means of winding the silks and the making of silk stuffs, which she embroidered with flowers and birds. Voltaire states, that the valuable insect that produces the silk, is originally from China; from whence it was carried into Persia, though not until very late, together with the art of weaving the down in which it is enveloped.Should a few spirited land-proprietors make the experiment of grubbing up their hedge-rows, and Polo Ralph Lauren Outlet planting fences of mulberrytrees, I have no doubt but that in a few years they would reap as great a profit from their hedges as from their corn. It would find im* mediate employ for many labourers, and would in time require the assistance of thousands of the lower classes Nike Australia to gather the leaves and attend to the breeding and feeding of the silk-worms, the
