Round & round the Mulberry bush: Tree Talk

Posted by: 2016-06-21 02:59:17 ,
By Raj Kumar

RIGHT around the corner of Sector 7 C Market is a little spot occupied by a dhobi and his family. As the familiar smell of burnt coal fills the air around him, he laboriously irons piles of clothes lying on a rickety folding bed under a curtain of leaves of an old Mulberry tree. So dense and refreshingly green is its canopy that the whole family, including an old stray dog, huddle under it throughout the day.
?Hanji, yeh shahtoot hai?fruit abhi khatam ho gaya iska (yes, this is Shahtoot, but its fruits have just gotten over,? confirmed the dhobi. Across the road, near the Sector 7 Sampark Centre and Verka booth is another Mulberry tree, and this one just got over with white berries, the ones where silkworms are found on. There are green berries too, and if you move to Rock Garden, Sukhna Lake, Botanical Garden and Rose Garden, you will spot Morus Nigra or the Mulberry.
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