Re: Mulberries
- Subject: Re: Mulberries
- From: A*
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 05:19:24 -0400
I have such nice memories of a mulberry tree in my grandmother's tiny front
yard in the city. It was pollarded, I think now, and flocks of birds
descended on the ripe fruit. The fruit was also used for fights among
children, probably to parental anger over stains! I remember it as being
soft and sweet. Judy Warner
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Mulberries
> >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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