PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 327 
- according to the number of mulberry trees. I, 472 :—A bow 
of mulberry wood. [ See the quotation in 436.] Il, 141:— 
Aladle of mulberry wood. [See the quotation in 408.] 
Chou li, 11, 194:—Fire from mulberry wood. [See the 
- quotation in 528, note. ] 
Shu king, 99 [ Tribute of Ya] :—Province of 3 J Yen chou 
(Western Shantung). Yi made the mulberry grounds 
(& +) fit for silk-worms. 
Menctus, 336, 337 :—Wen wana (the founder of the Chou 
dynasty, 12th century B.C.) planted around the homestead, 
the space beneath the walls, with mulberry trees, with whieh 
the women nourished silk-worms, and thus the old men were 
able to have silk to wear. 
Shi king, 82:—The duke of Wan [7th century B.C.] 
surveyed Ts‘u and T‘ang, with the high hills. He descended 
and examined the mulberry trees [to see whether the ground 
_ Was well adapted for their growth}. 126 :—Do not break 
my mulberry trees. 184:—The wild geese rest on the 
_ bushy mulberry trees. 191 :—On the hillsides are mulberry — 
trees. 199 :—The yellow birds flit about and rest upon the 
mulberry trees, 222 :—The turtle-dove isin the mulberry tree. 
272, 301, 519 :—Mulberry tree. 337 :—The mulberry tree 
and the ts2* [v. infra, 508] must be regarded with reverence. 
~414:~In the low, wet grounds the mulberry trees are 
beautiful and luxuriant, the leaves are glossy, dark. Ali SS 
They gather firewood of branches of the mulberry tree. 
Pin *| With the spring days the warmth begins, and the 
baskets, and go along the small paths, looking for the tender 
leaves of the mulberry tree. Ibidem :—In the sillecworm e 
: month they strip the mulberry branches of their leaves, and — 
and high, only stripping the young trees of their loaves: | 
—164:—They gather the mulberry leaves. 228 [“Life in 
Oriole utters its song. The young. women take their deep 
take their axes and hatchets, to lop off those that are distant 
