"White mulberry" Quotes from Famous Books
... their favorite food; and another species, called the Morus multicaulis—for Morus is the scientific name of the family—has more delicate leaves than any other, and produces a finer quality of silk. These trees are natives of China, and the white mulberry grows very rapidly to the height of thirty or forty feet. The paper mulberry is so called because in China and Japan—of which it is a native—its bark is manufactured into paper. In the South-Sea ... — Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church |