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they begin to appear, I think it is a good 

 rule to fow the feed about fix or- eight 

 weeks before the time in which the mul- 

 berry bud begins to open, which may be a 

 fort of general dire6lion for any climate. 



Take therefore the feed which you had 

 faved, and fleep it for one night in water, 

 then make it about half dry, and mix an 

 equal quantity of fand or dry mould with 

 it, the better to feparate the grains 5 fow 

 this mixture on the beds prepared as above, 

 and fift over it fome fine rich mould, fuch 

 as that of old melon beds, to about a quar- 

 ter of an inch depth : The beds mufl be 

 wateied at leaft every fecond day in dry 

 weather, efpecially toward the time when 

 you expe6l the feed to fpring up. 



While the earth appears moifl you need 

 not water them, fmce it is very apt to 

 thicken the furface of the ground, and 

 make a cruft gather on it, which hinders 

 the up-fpring of the young plants ; and 

 therefore when you water them, it fhould 

 be with a watering-pan whofe rofe has very 

 fine holes ; or elfe you (liould have two or 

 three light hurdles of ofier, liraw, or 

 rufhes, which you fhould lay upon the 

 ieveral parts of the beds as you water them, 



which 



