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I WILL NOT SURVIVE YOU. 
BLACK MULBERRY TREE. 
The fruit of the mulberry tree, like that of 
the strawberry and raspberry, is said not to 
undergo the acetous fermentation in the sto¬ 
mach, and therefore may he safely eaten. As 
the tree becomes older, it increases in fruit¬ 
fulness ; and, when fully grown, its fruit is 
much larger and better flavoured than that 
of the young ones. 
From the circumstance of this tree being 
mentioned in the affecting story of Pyramus 
and Thishe, narrated by La Fontaine, and 
which nearly all the world has read, it has 
been selected by the French floral linguist to 
express the sentiment at the head of this ar¬ 
ticle. Pyramus, fearing that his beloved 
Thisbe had been devoured by an enraged lion, 
killed himself in despair. Thisbe, having been 
alarmed, had fled from the appointed place of 
meeting, and returned only in time to see Py¬ 
ramus expire. She would not survive him, 
hut taking the poniard he had so effectually 
used, she destroyed her own existence. Thus 
in death these two lovers were re-united. 
