Lihua and Zhi to keep the house warm and feed the caterpillar mulberry leaves constantly before they unravel the silken cocoons and sell them to be made into fine cloths they'll never wear themselves.
Some of the planting, however, like this old veteran mulberry tree, is original, and the children recall climbing through its branches from the upstairs nursery down into the garden in order to play.
When Emil reached the lower corner by the hedge, Marie was sitting under her white mulberry tree, the pailful of cherries beside her, looking off at the gentle, tireless swelling of the wheat.
She says it wasn't hard to get permission from the government to raise mulberry plants and silkworms right in the capital city, probably because of the small scale of such an operation.
But we also have black sesame seeds and ripe mulberries, black race, and nori or dried seaweed, black coffee, and dark chocolate, which doesn't end up looking very black at all.
Many of them settled in the mulberry area of Manhattan, and the neighbourhood was home to so many Italians that it quickly became known as Little Italy.
The cultivation of mulberry trees, and the breeding of silk-worms, seem not to have been common in the northern parts of Italy before the sixteenth century.