I do not know whether this has been tried yet.

The most interesting part of the paper mulberry is its bark, which is used in the manufacture of paper both in China and Japan.

The beautiful India paper used for engravings is made from it, and so, too, is the fine white cloth worn by the natives of the Society Islands, and which so much astonished Europeans when they first saw it.

It would be interesting to detail the process of manufacturing this cloth as well as the paper, but it would take up too much of our time at present.
"There is another genus of trees which resembles the mulberries very much.

They are valuable for their wood, which produces a fine yellow dye, known by the name of `fustic-wood.' The tree that produces the best of this dye is the _Morus tinctoria_, and grows in the West Indies and tropical America; but there is a species found in the southern United States, of an inferior kind, which produces the `bastard fustic' of commerce.
"So much, then, for the mulberry-tree; but I fear, brothers, I have left but little time to describe the others." "Oh! plenty of time," said Basil; "we have nothing else to do.