"Mulberry tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is asserted that frost ceases as soon as the mulberry tree bursts into leaf, with which may be compared the words of Autolycus in ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... led in mathematics; it boasts of Newton and Byron among its graduates. Milton belonged to Christ Church College; the mulberry tree which he planted ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... at a bound and vanished into the darkness. The welter of barks and growls and grunts of expended energy, rising a moment later from the midst of the great lawn, suggested that a cat had retired to the convenient shelter of the mulberry tree. ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... When the Second Protector (to be) was dallying with his lady-love in Ts'i, the maid of his mistress happened to overhear important conversations from her post in a mulberry tree; the presumption is that she was collecting leaves for the silkworms. Again in 519, a century later, there was a dispute on the Ts'u-Wu frontier (North An Hwei province), about the possession of certain mulberry trees. Cotton (Gossypium) was unknown in China, ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker |
