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wliich are apt to fall with a very little 

 wind, and are very cafily bruifed, but a 

 coarfe cloth or winnow-lheet wou'd ferve 

 as well, and iiot hinder the culture of the 

 tree. 



When mulberry-trees are only kept for 

 the ufe of filkworms, the foil and culture 

 are not of fuch confequence j and the lefs 

 they run into fruit it will be the better ; 

 however, you fliou'd always have fome 

 planted in a good foil and lituation, and 

 properly manured, to haflen their coming 

 into leaf, that fo you may have food for 

 your filkworms early in fpring, and not be 

 obliged to keep their eggs from hatching 

 till it is fo late, that in hot climates, the 

 midfummer heat wou'd come before they 

 went to fpin, or that, in temperate climates, 

 the cold might advance before they laid 

 their eggs, either of which wou'd be very 

 hurtful. 



Both the black, and the white mulberry 

 leaves will feed filkworms, but the white 

 fort is preferred, and generally ufed, at leafl: 

 in Europe j for which the following reafons 

 are alleged. Firft, that their leaves are 

 more tender and delicate, and more eagerly 

 defired by the worms. Secondly, that 



they 



