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MULBERRY. MORUS. 



Natural order, Scabrida. A genus of the Monacia 

 Tetandria class. 



" The mulberry-tree was hung with blooming wreaths ; 

 The mulberry-tree stood centre of the dance ; 

 The mulberry-tree was hymn'd with dulcet airs ; 

 And from his touchwood trunk the mulberry-tree 

 Supplied such relics as devotion holds 

 Still sacred, and preserves with pious care." 



Coivper. 



In the Persian language this tree is called Tut ^cuy'J. 

 The Greeks called the treeMopsa, and the fruit Mopov, hence 

 the Latin name Morus. The Dutch call it Maulberham, 

 from whence probably the English name. The derivation 

 of the generic name seems most probably from fuopof, 

 stultus, per antiphrasin ; the mulberry-tree being reputed 

 the wisest of trees, in not budding till cold weather is fully 

 past. Pliny says, if you want a sign that the winter is 

 past, and all the cold entirely gone, when you see the 

 mulberry-tree bud and put out leaves, fear no more frost 

 nor hard weather, to do harm for that year. 



" This fruit, in Heraldry, is an hieroglyphic of wisdom, 

 whose property is to speak and to do all things in oppor- 

 tune season." Guillim. 



The mulberry-tree is mentioned in the 2nd book of 

 Samuel, where we read that David came upon the Phiiis- 



