Chapter III. 



PUI.PY FRUITS, BORNE BY SHRUBS AND TREES, CON- 

 TINUED. — mulberry; currant; gooseberry; rasp- 

 berry; stra\yberry; barberry; elder; bramble; 

 cloud-berry; bilberry; gualtheria shallon. 



a. Currant. 



b. Gooseberry. c. Raspberry. d. Strawberry, 

 e. Mulberry, 



The Mulberry — Moms nigra. 



The mulberrj'-tree appears to have formed an ob- 

 ject of cultivation at a very early period in the western 

 parts of Asia, and in Europe. The attention there 

 bestowed upon it must have been solely on account 

 of its fruit; for the knowledge of the mode of rearing 

 silk-worms was confined to the people of central and 

 southern Asia till the sixth century. We read in 

 the Psalms that the Almighty wrath destroyed the 



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