DENDROLOGIA 



THE SECOND BOOK 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the Mulberry. 



1 . Morus, the mulberry : It may possibly be won- 

 der'd by some why we should insert this tree amongst 

 our forest inhabitants ; but we shall soon reconcile 

 our industrious planter, when he comes to understand 

 the incomparable benefit of it, and that for its timber, 

 durableness, and use for the joyner and carpenter, 

 and to make hoops, bows, wheels, and even ribs for 

 small vessels, instead of oak, ?c. though the fruit 

 and the leaves had not the due value with us, which 

 they deservedly enjoy in other places of the world. 



2. But it is not here I would recommend our 

 ordinary black fruit bearers, though that be likewise 

 worth the propagation ; but that kind which is call'd 

 the white mulberry (which I have had sent me out 

 of Languedoc) one of them of a broad leaf, found 

 there and in Provence, whose seeds being procured 

 from Paris, where they have it from Avignon, should 

 be thus treated in the seminary. 



3. In countries where they cultivate them for the 

 silk-worm, and other uses, they sow the perfectly 

 mature berries of a tree whose leaves have not been 



