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The Floral King. 159
which is always envious of great things, it gains a
great deal, one must dread time for every day.”
Professor Kalm wrote the r4th October, 1748,
from Philadelphia in New Sweden in America :—
“Wild mulberry trees, of several kinds are found
in great abundance everywhere in the forests; those
who have travelled all the way to the north of New
England, where the cold during the winter vies with
that in Torneo, and the Lapmark, assure me that
they have seen there also wild mulberry trees, not
one, but several have for curiosity kept silkworms,
which they fed with them, and which have spun as
good silk as any that exists in the south of Europe.
One of the former Governors of New York, got early
from his own silkworms, which were fed with the
leaves of these trees—as much silk spun as he needed
for his whole family: but because the day labourers
here are extremely dear, and because people find
their greatest profit in raising corn, which is exported
from here to the whole of West India, they have
forgotten all about breeding silkworms.”
Referring to the intimation which was published
in the Scientific Journal, Linnzus wrote to P. Elvius,
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