Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer

From the United States Gazette.
MORUS MULTICAULIS.
Letters received by the last packet from France, state that the sales of trees and cuttings of the Morus Multicaulis has ceased, in consequence of the greatly increasing orders from this country. The nurserymen there had not been prepared for such unusual and unexpected demands; and, after increasing their prices 200 and 300 per cent. they finally quit selling their plants, at any price in order to cut them up, to propagate an additional supply for next season.
It has been frequently stated in the papers that the Morus Multicaulis is too tender to withstand the severity of the winters in Pennsylvania, and that the Alpine, and Moretti, or Morus Macrophylla, were better adapted to this climate. It is believed that this opinion is erroneous, as there are now growing, in the Bartram Botanic Garden, three miles S. W. from Philadelphia, several trees of the two last varieties, which were received from France ten years since (soon after the Morus Multicaulis had been procured from Manilla.) The plants were slightly protected from the cold of the first winter, since which they have never been sheltered, nor suffered the least injury from the frost. The largest tree of the Multicaulis is 18 feet high, and ten inches in circumference. The leaves are larger than those of the Macrophylla, and of a smoother and finer texture; they are preferred by the silk worms. Both varieties appear to be quite as hardy as the white mulberry (Morus alba.)