It truly is well known that the raspberry grow was used as food in ancient cultures, and parts of raspberry bushes were used to make a medicinal tea. The strawberry tree, Arbutus, was described by the Both roman writer, Pliny, during the 1st century The. D. Pliny also referred to the strawberry ground herb that was being produced for food to be used as a healing tonic during the 1st century A. D. Many Romans were not enthusiastic about eating berries from vines that increased nearby the ground, because of their anxiety about plague contamination by rats and snakes. Strawberry fruits were represented in European paintings during medieval times, and were cultivated in gardens during the 1300s in The european countries. Henry the VIII, King of England purchased some strawberry fruits to eat in the year 1530.
During the 1600s a blood plant shipment was received in England from the American colonies and planted in backyard gardens. These Virginia strawberries, Fragaria virginiana, were tasty and scrumptious growing larger in size than the European strawberries. Right after growing side by aspect, both species of blood plants inter-hybridized and increased into a noticable difference, remarkably, larger and sweeter berries than either of the parents. The offspring vines of these natural selections of strawberries were used to breed modern cultivar's that resulted in the intensive commercial growing of strawberry plants in the usa.
The noted founders of the first Botanical Back garden in america, John Bartram in 1728 and was sent along with his son, William Bartram, in his book, Travels, were brought to explore the U. S. Southern colonies also to compile an inventory of useful native plant life. His encounters with "Brier vines..... rambling.... over fencing and shrubs" records his familiarity with wild super berry plants in the New World if the American colonies.
The first plant and tree nursery to be established in the United States was in Flushing, New York in the year 1737, by Willian Prince, who offered raspberry plants for sale, and in 177, he offered 500 white mulberry trees, Morus alba, for purchase. General Oglethorpe in 1733 imported 500 white mulberry sale trees to Fort Frederica near Sea Island Georgia to suggest to the colonists, that there was an economical future for silk production. Mulberry trees lined the entry to Leader Thomas Jefferson's home in Monticello, Virginia and were planted 20 feet aside.
The President of the U. S. Continental Congress, Henry Laurens, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, after the year 1755, introduced "olives, limes, turmeric, (lilies) ever-bearing strawberry, red raspberry and blue vineyard from the South of France, and he also introduced "Apples, pears, apples, the white Chasselus grape, which bore abundantly. " The fruit that he raised from the olive tree was prepared and pickled "with a quality equal to those imported".
George Washington in 1761 moved to his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home where his gardeners cultivated super berry bushes and berry vines.
William Bartram in his book, Travels, pg. XV, reports that mulberry trees were planted along the Georgia Coast, extending from Savannah, Georgia to Augusta, Georgia, and in 1766, "Every landowner was required by Law to increase silkworms and produce cotton, but only a colony of Germans at Ebenezer, just up the river from Savannah were successful with this crop. inch
Near Mobile, Alabama, Bartram reported seeing in the 12 months, 1773, "the forests, consist chiefly of Oak, Hiccory, (hickory) Ash, Sour Chewing gum, (Nyssa sylvatica) Sweet Chewing gum (Liquidamber styraciflua, ) Beech, Mulberry, scarlet Maple, Dark-colored Walnut, Dogwood, Cornus Fl, Aescullus Pavia, Prunus Arata, Ptelea, and an Great quantity of Chestnut, (Fagus castanea) on the hills with Pinus taeda and Pinus lutea. "
Bartram noted that, (page 306) "visiting a plantation at Jacksonbug, that he saw a huge orchard of the "European mulberry Tree (Morus Alba) some of which were grafted on stocks of the native Mulberry (Morus rubra) that were used to grow silkworms" for the making of silk clothes. Bartram also found in 1773 red mulberry trees growing at Wrightsville, Ga. 30 miles from Augusta, Ga.
Reports of William Bartram discovering "fruitful strawberry fields, that he later enjoyed eating cream and strawberries served by his very agreeable, female Native indian host. William Bartram found out various wild species related to blueberry bushes, "Vaccinium varietas", growing in the Souther U. S. Colonies in great numbers.
Berries occur naturally in most areas of the world, during the Arctic areas of The united states; blueberry vegetation being the most chilly hardy. Berries are known as being small fresh fruits, and in ancient cultures and were largely disregarded to cultivate as a garden plant in favor of larger fruits, except for use as a health remedy. The flavor and size of wild berries was unpredictable and extremely variable in quality. Wildlife animals and birds owed most of their existence to food coming from berry plants, vines and woods. Mulberry trees are perhaps the best known ancient, historical tree berry, but even though the Babylonians loved the berries, the Chinese grew silkworms on the leaves. A great Oriental Silk trade development then opened up the Western products to the East and resulted in Mulberry trees that can start bearing red, dark or white berries the first year of sowing, and the berry yields of these is so phenomenal,
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