. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. The common black mulberry is said to be the sycamore-tree of the New Testament. "Mulberries are esteemed as a grateful summer frait of aromatic flavour and sub-acid nature. They are considered cooling, laxative, and whole- some. The Romans preferred this fruit to any other. King James I. encou- raged the planting of mulbcrrj'-trees in this country about 1605,
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. The common black mulberry is said to be the sycamore-tree of the New Testament. "Mulberries are esteemed as a grateful summer frait of aromatic flavour and sub-acid nature. They are considered cooling, laxative, and whole- some. The Romans preferred this fruit to any other. King James I. encou- raged the planting of mulbcrrj'-trees in this country about 1605, under the im- pression that it would be possible to Mullet. propagate silkworms on a large scale thereby; but efforts to acclimatize the silk^\?orm have always hitherto failed, our seasons being too damp and cold. MULE. A hybrid between a he-ass and a mare, not valued in Britain to anything like the same extent as on the Continent. Spain is the country for mules, where grandees of the highest rank ride on them, and they j'ield as much as,^50 or ^60 each; but such are generally ex- ceedingly well bred, the Spanish ass being vastly superior to the British breed. Besides which, English tho- roughbred stallions are used to obtain the cross, and the progeny is some- times upwards of 16 hands in height, possessing the good qualities of both parents — the stature, beauty, and paces of the horse, and the patience, endurance, and strength of the ass. A different kind of mule altogether is obtained from a stallion horse and a female ass. The former animal bears the stamp of the nobler breed in everything but ear and tail, but the latter resembles the ass in stature and form, and is called a " hinney" in va- rious parts of England, and a " gen- natin" in Ireland, ilules are generally infertile, but not invariably so. The grey mullet is an abundant coast fish, and ascends rivers for miles. It improves more than any other salt- water fish in ponds. The red mul
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