164 Mr. Ddahigarre on White Mulbeny Hedges, 



fenfible to the cold, nor exerting themfelves for flicker : 

 On the contrary, they remained motlonlefs, and ^bore well 

 the ftorm : In fhort, neither the cold nor the heat appeared 

 to make much Impreflion upon them. They were free from 

 the diforders commonly attending thofe tended with the greatefl: 

 trouble and care in our houfes. 



Notwithflanding the bad feafon, which we might fuppofe 

 would have killed them all, out of thofe 1200, we gathered 

 450 cocoons, which proved to be the finell filk ever 

 raifed in France : thefe cocoons gave two pounds feven ounces 

 of raw filk. Then the refult is the lofs of about two-thirds, 

 which will appear very inconfiderable to thofe who know by 

 experience that a greater proportion is loft in the common 

 way of breeding at home, where the fifth part only fucceeds. 



To return to the manner of planting mulberry hedges : 

 Round the field to be inclofed, dig up a ditch three feet 

 wide and two feet deep : the longeft roots of the young plants 

 being cut off near the hairy fibres, muft be planted about 

 eighteen inches deep, at the diftance of three or four inches 

 from each other : After the ditch is filled up, every fhoot 

 muft be cut at the height of two or three inches above the 

 ground. Whether the plant is big or not, there is no 

 matter, provided it is at leaft one year old. Obferve only to 

 give the preference to the white mulberry, as the beft for 

 ^he food of the filk worms. 



