During the first three years after planting the leaders or one-year-old end growths of the branches are usually cut back by half to just above a wood bud.
The medlar will put up with the normal cultivations done, for instance in a vegetable garden.
Branches that droop close to the ground may be pegged down into the soil in October and they usually root quite well.
Some nurserymen in the past used to graft the Morus nigra on to the Morus alba for reasons I have never been able to discover. No special feeding seems to be necessary for mulberries. They will grow happily in almost any soil. They just like a sunny position and well-drained good earth.
Wait until the fruits have been touched by the frost and then pick them during a nice clear day after the middle of November. Two weeks after storage the fruits will start to soften and may turn yellow. They may be eaten as dessert or may be made into jelly or `cheese'.
There are three common varieties which are Dutch. This produces very large, good-flavoured fruits. The flowers are particularly beautiful, while the leaves are larger than other kinds. The tree is a spreader and slightly droopy. It is perhaps not such a heavy cropper as the two other kinds; Nottingham. Produces a smaller fruit but a better flavour than the Dutch. A heavy regular cropper. Somewhat of an upright grower. Leaves not so large as Dutch. Incidentally, has been called The Narrow Leaved Dutch; Royal. A medium grower and heavy cropper. The only variety, as far as I know, which received a First Class Certificate in the R.H.S. The fruit is about the same size as Nottingham, and nicely flavoured. - 15266
The medlar will put up with the normal cultivations done, for instance in a vegetable garden.
Branches that droop close to the ground may be pegged down into the soil in October and they usually root quite well.
Some nurserymen in the past used to graft the Morus nigra on to the Morus alba for reasons I have never been able to discover. No special feeding seems to be necessary for mulberries. They will grow happily in almost any soil. They just like a sunny position and well-drained good earth.
Wait until the fruits have been touched by the frost and then pick them during a nice clear day after the middle of November. Two weeks after storage the fruits will start to soften and may turn yellow. They may be eaten as dessert or may be made into jelly or `cheese'.
There are three common varieties which are Dutch. This produces very large, good-flavoured fruits. The flowers are particularly beautiful, while the leaves are larger than other kinds. The tree is a spreader and slightly droopy. It is perhaps not such a heavy cropper as the two other kinds; Nottingham. Produces a smaller fruit but a better flavour than the Dutch. A heavy regular cropper. Somewhat of an upright grower. Leaves not so large as Dutch. Incidentally, has been called The Narrow Leaved Dutch; Royal. A medium grower and heavy cropper. The only variety, as far as I know, which received a First Class Certificate in the R.H.S. The fruit is about the same size as Nottingham, and nicely flavoured. - 15266
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