Et dubitant homines serere, atque impendere curam?
Georg. 2.
............ Omne solum natale est, intrat ubique
Ardelio; illa quidem cultis excluditur agris
Plerumque, atque hortis; sed circumsepit utrosque
Atque omnes aditus servat fidissima custos,
Utilior latrante cane, armatoque Priapo.
Aspera frigoribus saxisque Helvetia tales
Educat, & peregre terras emittit in omnes
Enormes durosque viros, sed fortia bello
Pectora; non illi cultu, non moribus aulas,
Atque urbes decorare valent, sed utrasque fideli
Defendunt opera; nec iis, gens cauta, tyranni,
Præponunt speciosa magis, multúmque sonora
Præsidia; his certi vitam tutantur opesque, &c.
Couleii, pl. l. 6.
[192:1] See Varro in Atis. Ovid, Fast. 6
........... de spina sumitur alba.
[197:1] Bies. de Aeris potestate.
DENDROLOGIA
THE SECOND BOOK
CHAPTER I.
Of the Mulberry.
1. Morus, the mulberry: It may possibly be wonder’d by some why we should insert this tree amongst our forest inhabitants; but we shall soon reconcile our industrious planter, when he comes to understand the incomparable benefit of it, and that for its timber, durableness, and use for the joyner and carpenter, and to make hoops, bows, wheels, and even ribs for small vessels, instead of oak, &c. though the fruit and the leaves had not the due value with us, which they deservedly enjoy in other places of the world.
2. But it is not here I would recommend our ordinary black fruit bearers, though that be likewise worth the propagation; but that kind which is call’d the white mulberry (which I have had sent me out of Languedoc) one of them of a broad leaf, found there and in Provence, whose seeds being procured from Paris, where they have it from Avignon, should be thus treated in the seminary.