How I boasted of my first 50 trees of Russian mulberry ! They had just been offered to the public, and I was taken by those catalogue cuts which look for all the world like a brace of grubs for bait, and the execution of which always calls to my mind a school boy and a jack-knife. Not content with the first 50, I have now an extra lot. Many have borne for two or three years, and I have had a figure made to represent as good fruits as I have yet secured. It is said that these fruits are good for the birds, even if not respectable enough for human food, but I confess that I should look with distrust upon any bird which should eat my Russian mulberries in this land of plenty. If the reader looks close he will discover four fruits on this sprig. I had intended to insert a copy of the catalogue cut alongside this, labelling one "The Russian ulberry as it Grows." and the other "The Russian Mulberry as it is Said to Grow ;" but the trade cut is so abominably mean and crude and libellous that I could not bring myself to the point of using it. But they tell me that the Russian mulberry makes a good windbreak.

This may be true, but for all I have yet seen I will take any rapid growing native tree in preference. - L. H. Bailey.