英语词汇mulberry mania的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mulberry mania. Much has been written about international tulipomania, but almost none of our history books mentions our American mulberry mania of the 1830s. This was a craze for planting the Philippine white mulberry variety Morus mul- ticaulis (“many stemmed”) with the expectation of making great profits in the silk industry. The leaves of these trees, used by the Chinese in sericulture and even tried by the British un- der James I, were said to be superior to all others for silkworm feeding, and millions of them were planted in the “multicaulis fever” that ensued. Although Ben Franklin had tried to estab- lish a silk industry in Philadelphia, the fever really began in Connecticut, where the seven Cheney brothers founded Amer- ica’s first silk mill at South Manchester in 1838, after having ex- perimented with silk culture for five years. One year, from 300 mulberry trees laid horizontally in the ground, there sprang 3,700 shoots, or enough to feed 6,000 silkworms. This meant bushels of cocoons and yards of much-wanted silk. Many farm- ers followed the Cheneys’ example, and across America books and articles were published about raising mulberry trees. Silk societies were formed and bounties offered. Prices escalated crazily. In 1838 two-and-a-half-foot cuttings sky rocketed from $25 to $500 per hundred. In Pennsylvania alone as much as $300,000 changed hands for mulberry trees in a week, and trees were frequently resold by speculators at great profits. But by 1840 mulberry trees glutted the market, and were valued at only five cents each. When speculation collapsed and the so- called “golden-rooted trees” were uprooted from plantations in 1839, disgruntled investors coined a new word, multicaulished, meaning “run out,” “good for nothing,” “disliked.” See tulip.

词汇	mulberry mania
词源	mulberry mania. Much has been written about international tulipomania, but almost none of our history books mentions our American mulberry mania of the 1830s. This was a craze for planting the Philippine white mulberry variety Morus mul- ticaulis (“many stemmed”) with the expectation of making great profits in the silk industry. The leaves of these trees, used by the Chinese in sericulture and even tried by the British un- der James I, were said to be superior to all others for silkworm feeding, and millions of them were planted in the “multicaulis fever” that ensued. Although Ben Franklin had tried to estab- lish a silk industry in Philadelphia, the fever really began in Connecticut, where the seven Cheney brothers founded Amer- ica’s first silk mill at South Manchester in 1838, after having ex- perimented with silk culture for five years. One year, from 300 mulberry trees laid horizontally in the ground, there sprang 3,700 shoots, or enough to feed 6,000 silkworms. This meant bushels of cocoons and yards of much-wanted silk. Many farm- ers followed the Cheneys’ example, and across America books and articles were published about raising mulberry trees. Silk societies were formed and bounties offered. Prices escalated crazily. In 1838 two-and-a-half-foot cuttings sky rocketed from $25 to $500 per hundred. In Pennsylvania alone as much as $300,000 changed hands for mulberry trees in a week, and trees were frequently resold by speculators at great profits. But by 1840 mulberry trees glutted the market, and were valued at only five cents each. When speculation collapsed and the so- called “golden-rooted trees” were uprooted from plantations in 1839, disgruntled investors coined a new word, multicaulished, meaning “run out,” “good for nothing,” “disliked.” See tulip.
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