Re: Mulberries
- Subject: Re: Mulberries
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:11:29 -0500
>Mulberries seed here and can grow ten feet in two years. It is on the city
>lots, a trash tree. Primarily because it rains down purple staining fruits
>in midsummer. You won't find anyone planting them now but since they were
>popular 75 years ago when European immigrants liked the fruit, they persist
>in waste places. We have two of them growing here, they are not large
>trees. They have the habit of dropping all of their leaves on one day, all
>at once.
>
>One is being sawed down this summer as it is old and rotted at the base and
>the other's days are numbered.
There was a neat story some years ago by Ray Bradbury (or some other
SF writer) which involved an alien space ship crashing on earth. The
resident life form was mortally wounded and had to find a new host.
The only earthly life form close enough to inhabit was a mulberry
tree. The alien surmised that when the mulberry eventually died, it
could jump into a higher (and supposedly more desirable) life form.
Little did it realize that mulberries can be extremely long lived and
rarely die a natural death. The story went on to describe all of the
tribulations which the tree underwent through the decades, never
succumbing, but forever sprouting anew.
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com
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