The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . wer, a vase-shaped, 4-lobed calyx, with two stigmasprotruding. Fruit fleshy calyx lobes, surrounding single seed;whole spike unites to form an aggregate fruit, sweet, juicy, darkpurplish red. Preferred habitat, rich well-drained soil. Dis-tribution, western Massachusetts to southern Ontario, Michigan,Nebraska, Kansas; south to Florida and Texas. Uses: Woodused in cooperage and for fencing. A worthy tree for ornament,but rarely planted. The Chinese mulberry (Morus alba), with white f
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The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . wer, a vase-shaped, 4-lobed calyx, with two stigmasprotruding. Fruit fleshy calyx lobes, surrounding single seed;whole spike unites to form an aggregate fruit, sweet, juicy, darkpurplish red. Preferred habitat, rich well-drained soil. Dis-tribution, western Massachusetts to southern Ontario, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas; south to Florida and Texas. Uses: Woodused in cooperage and for fencing. A worthy tree for ornament, but rarely planted. The Chinese mulberry (Morus alba), with white fruit, holds aunique economic position, as its leaves are the chosen food of silk-worms. No substitute has ever robbed this tree of its pre-eminencemaintained for centuries, in its own field of usefulness. The hardyRussian mulberries are derived from Morus alba. The red mulberry, discovered in Virginia in great abundance, inflamed the minds of early colonists who counted it one of thechief resources of the colony. A tree apt to feede Silke-wormsto make silke promised truly a commoditie not meanely profit- 240.