If botanists had spent their time in trying to discover these uses, instead of wasting it in idle classifications, mankind would have been more enriched by their labours.
"Let us begin, then, with the mulberry-tree, as there are many of them growing around.

Were I to tell you all about this valuable tree, I should occupy a day or more.

I shall only state those facts about it that are most interesting.
"The mulberry-trees form the genus _morus_--for this was the name by which they were known to the ancient Greeks.

Of this genus there are several well-known species.

No doubt there may be other species growing in wild countries, and yet unknown or undescribed by botanists; and this remark applies as well to other trees, for every day we hear of new varieties being discovered by enterprising explorers.
"First, then, comes the white mulberry (_Morus alia_).