"White mulberry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grove of large orange-trees, and behind it an extensive tract of down, covered with that peculiar close, short turf which creates South Down and Pre Sale mutton: and overshadowed by some magnificent live-oaks and white mulberry-trees. By degrees, however, the tide, which rises to a great height here, running very strongly up both these channels, has worn away the bank, till tree by tree the orange grove has been entirely washed away, and the water ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... their favorite food; and another species, called the Morus multicaulis—for Morus is the scientific name of the family—has more delicate leaves than any other, and produces a finer quality of silk. These trees are natives of China, and the white mulberry grows very rapidly to the height of thirty or forty feet. The paper mulberry is so called because in China and Japan—of which it is a native—its bark is manufactured into paper. In the South-Sea ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... Murray (p. 109) in the village of Alan, half-way between Montelimart and Grignan, "there existed down to 1802 the first white mulberry tree planted in France. It was brought from Naples by Guy Pope de St. Auban, seigneur of Alan, one of the soldiers who accompanied Charles VIII. on his Italian campaign, in 1494." The mulberry tree occupies a much wider zone in the south ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black |
