The Black Mulberry, 149 



polis there are several, especially about 

 Chelsea and Fulham. One in Cheyne Walk, 

 Chelsea, has the honour of having been 

 planted by Queen Elizabeth claimed on its 

 behalf; and so have one or two others, 

 sooth to say. 



It is scarcely likely, indeed, that any of 

 the original trees planted at the commence- 

 ment of the seventeenth century are now in 

 existence ; but that may be what the writer 

 of an excellent paper on the subject in the 

 revised edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia 

 (1874) means, when he refers to living 

 specimens which had weathered three 

 centuries. 



Even in the city of London itself they 

 had the mulberry. Until the ground was 

 devoted to the formation of wharves, the 

 garden of Vintners' Hall, in Upper Thames 

 Street, ran down to the river, and contained 

 some of these trees, under which the mem- 

 bers and their friends sat and smoked. 

 The mulberry is reared from seedlings or 

 from truncheons. 



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