The tree is still seat here , or rather sprawling ; Mulberry trees seem to collapse and persuade on grow from a prone position . This Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is very erstwhile so I am not surprised that it has resolve to lie down . I think that it is very sensitive , I ’d do the same if I was fetch on for 500 age old . Specially if I could lean on my cubitus and maturate new arm .
The yield is coming on nicely and getting a bit red although it has quite a way of life to go before it is luscious and wine dark . Somebody has decided to make a home at the base of operations of the tree .
But aside from that there is nothing much to report . There has been a b owl about here for the last few week . I saw him once and I hear him screech at night . I like he would descend and pose for a photo in the tree . But there are no birds when I bet . Not so much as a hedge sparrow . So once more I will turn to Shakespeare for some divine guidance . The Bard never rent you down .
William Shakespeare corrupt his house , New Place in Stratford - upon – Avon in 1597 . He move in when he retired from London in 1610 . The house was one of the best in Stratford . He died in the menage in 1616 . Being a man of tasting and secernment he planted a Mulberry tree in his garden before he died .
In 1756 the Reverend Francis Gastrell bought the household . By this fourth dimension tourist came on pilgrimages to see the former home base of Shakespeare . They were particularly lancinate to see the Mulberry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree which Shakespeare had planted . Gastrell said that he was commonplace of being annoyed by so many visitors and had the tree diagram prune down . The people of Stratford were so angry that they stop Gastrell ’s windows .
An enterprising chap call Sharp produce the wood and find a local woodcarver , George Cooper who carved souvenirs from it . Even then people were thrilled to own something made out of Shakespeare ’ s tree . There were an stupefying number of token that appeared from this tree ; rather like the teeth and bones of saints really . Or head of John the Baptist , of which , I conceive there are several in circulation . Even now these souvenirs turn up sometimes . ( Carvings from Shakespeare ’ s Mulberry , not The Baptist ’s Heads . Although these plausibly do as well . ) Last year a beautifully carved afternoon tea tea caddy carve by Cooper sell at Christies for £ 13,750 . It has a bust of Shakespeare and his coat of arm carved into it . It also has Cooper ’ s name engraved on it .
It seems that Francis Gastrell was in some sort of dispute with the authorities about taxation . So not content with destroying the tree , in a fit of pique he smash the house in 1759 . The masses of Stratford were so incensed that they sent him to Coventry . finally he was drive to leave the townspeople and a by- law was passed that nobody of the name of Gastrell was allowed to live there again .
The site of Shakespeare ’ s home is now an Elizabethan grayback garden . The adjoining menage is call Nash ’ s House and it is a museum . You gain entree to the garden through the museum . There is a Mulberry tree in the garden .
David Garrick the eighteenth one C actor had a cup carve from Shakespeare ’ s tree . It was presented to him by the Mayor of Stratford in 1769 . His party piece was to tolerate up with his cup and sing a Sung of his own fashioning :
‘ Behold this fair chalice t’was carv’d from the tree
Whichoh my sweet Shakespeare was engraft by thee .
As a relick I kiss it , and bend at the shrine
What comes from thy hand must be ever divine !
All shall yield to the Mulberry- tree
Bend to thee , blest mulberry tree
Matchless was he who plant thee .
And K like him immortal shall be . ’
It goes on quite a bit more , but you get the pictorial matter . One hopes that his acting was better than his poetry .
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Lovely story about a lovely tree . Yours has certainly merit a prevarication down , after 500 class it must be tired !
You deal to make what I revere would be a rather dull Charles William Post something extraordinary . I front forrard to next month ’s military post .
Another majuscule story ! thanks again . Did you bang that the link to your mail on Lucy ’s varlet does n’t do work ? The name and address include 2024-12-24 , rather than 2025-03-12 which does work . Obviously I managed to get here anyway .
Chloris what a fascinating tree you have with so much lineament … .I had not realize that mulberry trees could uprise from that position . And I loved the history behind Shakespeare and his mulberry … fascinating stuff….what a wondrous post wedge full of so much !
I love the personality that you ’ve give your mulberry tree ! This tree following lark really stretches the imagination – I ’ve been fascinated to read the Shakespeare connection , what a meanspirited military man that Gaskell was ! I ’m wondering whether all mulberry trees are prostrate to rest down with eld – there ’s a nice tall upright mulberry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in my college ground ; I ’ve no theme how honest-to-god it might be ( probably not that old ) since the grounds have a very chequered history .
Chloris , a fabulous post — the history is so interesting . Now I have to go back and scan earlier mail about the mulberry tree , which in my mind henceforth will be Shakespeare ’s tree diagram .
500 year quondam – wow ! We have a Mulberry tree here , too , and one up at our bungalow – but probably a unlike cultivar than yours . I love the appreciation of the fruit , and they ’re heavy for bake . Our berry are mostly all ripe now ( and many have been consume by snort , cervid , and humans alike ) . Great tree to follow !
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