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I WILL NOT SURVIVE YOU. 
BLACK MULBERRY TREE. 
Tue fruit of the mulberry tree, like that of 
the strawberry and raspberry, is said not to 
undergo the acetousfermentation in the stomach, 
and therefore may be safely eaten. As the 
tree becomes older, it increases in fruitfulness ; 
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 Thisbe, uarrated 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 article. Py- 
ramus, fearing that his beloved Thisbe had 
been devoured by an enraged lion, killed him- 
self in despair. 'Thisbe, having been alarmed, 
had fled from the appointed place of meeting, 
and returned only in time to see Pyramus 
expire. She would not survive him, but taking 
the poniard he had so effectually used, she 
destroyed her own existence. Thus in death 
these two lovers were re-united, 





