Tree Following. December. Last Look at the Mulberry.

I have been follow this endearing previous tree since March . I have seen its bud plump up , and observe the raw folio unfurl and then produce green and lush .

I have looked at the tiny flowers and then watch out the fruit tumefy up and wrench pleasant-tasting and black .

I have admired the yellow autumn leaf and the lichen on the former trunk . But now it is leafless again and I think it is meter to say goodbye .

The Mulberry tree.Oil on Canvas. Norton Smith Museum Pasadena. California.

It has been fun to watch the tree month by calendar month and to chew over on all things Mulberry . It has take me on a historic journeying , as I learnt that this tree diagram was planted about 1550 by the grandad of John Winthrop , Governor of Massachusetts . I learnt something about the myth of the giving birth of sericulture in ancient China . I incur out how James 1 promoted a mulberry- planting schema in England in a vain attempt to introduce silk yield into this rural area . You shared with me the horrors of the theme of hatching out silkworm egg in the cleavage as suggested in a treatise of the meter .

In June I had a look at the myth of how the mulberry got its ruddy coloration as told by Pliny . The history of Pyramus and Thisbe is familiar to us from Shakespeare ’s ‘ A Midsummer Night ’s Dream ’ but his source was Pliny .

I learnt that being a man of taste and secernment , Shakespeare planted a mulberry in his garden in Stratford which was chop down in 1756 by the proprietor of the theater , the Rev. Francis Gastrell who was bothered by rubberneck . The wood was made into memento .

The Mulberry tree.Oil on Canvas. Norton Smith Museum Pasadena. California.

As the leaves turned chicken in Autumn , I had a flavour at Van Gogh ’s wonderful painting of the mulberry tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the grounds of the asylum at Arles where he was confine after the unfortunate episode with the spike .

The Mulberry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Oil on Canvas . Norton Smith Museum Pasadena . California .

So now it is time to polish off with another literary reference . There is a very old mulberry tree in the grounds of Christ ’s College , Cambridge . Not quite as sometime as mine , it was planted in 1608 at the time of Milton ’s birth . There are said to be many ghosts stalk Christ ’s College , and one of them is of a tall , elderly gentleman who linger under the mulbery Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at midnight when there is a full Sun Myung Moon . He is said to be full of remorse because he killed the only doctor who could have saved his go sweetie . Why he should haunt the mulberry tree tree I do n’t screw .

The tree pull sightseer in strait-laced time . I have explained how my tree diagram has hassle standing up and has collapsed over the centuries . The one at Christ ’s Cambridge has prop to keep it upright .

The fib goes that Milton frame his wonderful poemLycidassitting under the branches of this tree . I developed rather a dislike of Milton when I had to struggle withParadise Lostat school . But this bucolic lament is beautiful . And how appropriate to finish with the last line of the verse form , ( often misquoted ) .

‘ At last he rose , and twitch’d his mantel blue :

Tomorrow to new Grant Wood , and ley new . ’

Thank you so much Lucy atloosyandleafybog for host this wonderful meme . I have really enjoy it and I have learnt so much .

Chloris I must say you have one of the fine trees amongst us follower … an ancient and very interesting account … I have enjoyed the stories and many references you have provided this year….it has been a pleasure following your tree !

I ’ve loved read these posts and have learned so much . I calculate forward to your next tree – I desire you continue adding your vocalism to this meme .

I ’ve greatly enjoyed your mulberry tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree series , Chloris , and am rather disconsolate to see it fall to an ending . Right now , I ’m wondering why the humans whose ghost haunts the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Christ ’s College obliterate the doctor who might otherwise have saved his sweetheart …

Chloris Silkworms

Oh my goodness – a haunted tree ! I had no melodic theme Christ ’s College had that sort of chronicle . My image of it is as pure and perfect as can be ( we have a compact disc of unseasoned choir children singing Christmas carol at Christ ’s College , and it sounds like heaven ) . Thanks for all the history and knowledge about your Mulberry tree !

I have very much enjoyed the tale of your tree diagram and those of the other gripping mulberries you ’ve share ! give thanks you .

Oh Chloris I ’ve become quite fond of your mulberry tree and will so miss your monthly update . If only it could talk the tales it would order . I desire that it has many , many more twelvemonth ahead of it . I wonder just how many young minds develop a dislike of Milton whilst battling with ‘ Paradise fall back ’ – decidedly a poet for the more mature 🙂

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I ’ve been inhale by your story , chloris . If we have the chance to be tree - followers again next twelvemonth , I hope to find oneself one here rich in traditional knowledge .

1 . Thanks for the groovy station keep up the awesome work .

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