Show from the plough the loom and the anvil THE MULBERRY BYN THE bois darc or 0 07 cage 0 ange ange b having attracted of late so much i sprite depute for hedging some soine account of it in its lalive native locality may not be 1 uninteresting ill i I 1 te to your readers this tree is of the ge us morus or the family of 0 the mulberry malberry and I 1 would be much more appropriately terman the thorny mulberry it is dice cious the male and fl fi male blossoms being produced on separate trees the sap is a milky juice and stains a brown color silkworms silk SR worms thrive on the leaves the roots have a yellow bark similar to all other mulberries and have a tendency to spread spi ead a great distance near the sur fuce of the soil wherever cut with the plough I 1 or hoe send up lip sprouts the fruit is a ball from three thre e to six inches ili diameter fibrous in its structure turey the seeds resembling those of apples apple mingled among the fibres fabres ane findt amit when fresh is id eaten with avidity by horse and cattle and is torn in pieces tor for the seeds by birds and squirt squi nels els tae native loc locality ail of this tree is in the rich valleys and borders border s of prairies of southern arkansas and northern texas above the raft of red river awer where it t f frequently ly attains the height of forty feet and three feet in eted though in genei general al it is not inclined to tower up tor for being of a thrifty growth bends with will its own owl weight and becomes ci oukei the timber is proved of inestimable value for wagon wagon and carra cabrae e for though very hard when seasoned it is worked without difficulty and is easily cut when green the wood shrink but slightly in ill seasoning a and iid when dry will not leave the iron when put on though exposed to the weather I 1 know a heavy rodd road wagon that has bas now been in hard service twenty years e aars the wheels of which ringa ring under tinder the knuckle rik like e a piece of solid cast iron if I 1 am not mi taken our friend porter of the spirit oatlie of the tims tim u drives a buggy with wheels of this wood shiell I 1 sa saw ff shipped tzi to him from here a few years ago it is well adapted to some kinds of furniture and tur 1 ners ware as it receives a fine polish and acquires a beautiful nut brown color it also afford a good dye ye equal to logwood or bostic fl for knotty walking sticks the sprouts are much esteemed but for fence posh no timber can equal it and it is is now freely wed used for that purpose at a high p price r ire the name bis BAs B is dal da or bow wood was given give 11 to 0 o i ii from the indians making use of the tha touge elastic youngwood young wood for bows when the first french settlers exploit ed the country I 1 have about lial half a mile ol oe this wood in hedge hede that is twelve years old some of the trees are now bearing fruit for the he fourth time i and ai aie e twenty feet high and six inches in diameter it is a perfect defense against man and beast for an outside boundary to a large plantation where space is no object nothing can call be more lupei superb b or ornamental but the shade and the green roots will leave space for a wide wagon boad on each side unless for cultivation by the time the trees are ten years old this is the he case in our cl climati imatt but as the trees may n not 0 t grow r ow so at north I 1 would bot willingly willingly suggest any idea that would have a tendency to check tile the spirit 0 of f imp movement in in this age of progress have you not on the south side of long 11 island there were when I 1 saw them thein forty years ago some barren ban en sandy superior to the black locust and adapted dd ad darted ap fed to every purpose to which that timber is is applicable and andis is of a quicker growth A circumstance respect nj this wood may not be out of place here oa 01 the trunk ti unk of the large tree excrescence is is ti found w which i ch when sawn into exhibits a rufface beautifully curled and variegated gated in in color and hard as ivory some twenty years ago ago an ingenious 11 blacki blacksmith mith of our village who possessed considerable skill in in ng knife blades used these knots tor for handles jamea jame s bowie afterwards colonel bowie who full fell in the battle of the alamei in in texas then a ti aveling sportsman apoi asman stopping among us its engaged the son sm tn bi to make yin h m a hunting I 1 knife to be handled with this wood and ornamented with silver tius th s baj done and after leaving bowie showed this fe to many of his f lend fr for the beauty of the liaa dle die and soon the blacksmith th was well furnis furnished lied with orders from a distance for bowie knives with the bois dare darc handle thus tile babie knife had its it origin in guillotine and the fate of oe the inventor enough less melancholy omit that of I 1 the benevolent frenchman is is sufficiently sad he has been many years a pauper on the county to tally wind a vie vie im of intemperance wash washington i n g ark july 18 1852 |