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MULBERRY AND SILK WORMS
Observations by Fredrik Hasselquist in 1751
| TYPE: | Image |
| DATE: | 14th May 1751 |
| ARTIST: | Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons. |
| AUTHOR: | Fredrik Hasselquist (1722-1752) |
| CAT/REF NUMBER: | 35.38169503211975 |
| COLLECTION(S): | • Image: Wikimedia Commons. • Bombyx Mori feeding on Morus alba or white mulberry. |
| ADDED: | 12/05/2021 |
| iFELLOW: | Viveka Hansen |
| JOURNALS ETC: | Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure, Volume 4, Page 179 |
| CONTENT: | The naturalist Fredrik Hasselquist frequently admired the lush vegetation and beautiful gardens at visited places in the eastern Mediterranean area, so also during his ten-days-stay in and around Sidon in present-day Lebanon. In particular he noted: ‘We came to Seide (Sidon) on the 14th. The gardens in this town are the most remarkable things in it, and in these consist its riches; wherefore my first business was to see them. They extend an entire French mile round the town, and contain Pomegranate-trees, Apricots, Figs, Almonds, Oranges, Lemons and Plums, in such quantities, that the town can yearly furnish other places with considerable cargoes of these fruits; but the most numerous, and in which their riches chiefly consist, are Mulberry-trees, on which they feed an infinite number of silk worms.’ |
| GEO-LOCATION: | WGS84(33.55872, 35.3817) |
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