MULBERRY.-MORUS. 



In Botany, a Genus of the Monacia Tetan- 

 dria Class. 



THAT the mulberry-tree is a native of other 

 parts of Asia besides China and Persia, we 

 have the authority of the Bible, where, in 

 the 2nd book of Samuel, we read that David 

 came upon the Philistines, and smote them 

 over against the mulberry-trees. Again, in 

 the Psalms, we read, " He destroyed their 

 vines with hailstones, and their mulberry- 

 trees with frost." 



This fruit was first brought from Persia 

 into Greece and Rome, and was more es- 

 teemed by the Romans, even in their most 

 luxurious days, than any other fruit. 



Ovid has celebrated this tree in his story 

 of Pyramus and Thisbe : 



The berries, stain'd with bloody began to show 

 A dark complexion, and forgot their snow ; 



