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ries as fail as they ripen in hot climategj 

 by mixing them with a little flour or 

 meal, or kneading them with it into a 

 pafte y and from the dung which they 

 make, mix'd immediately with fand or 

 dry mould to make it fit for fowing, the 

 plants would fpeedily fpring up. 



There is nothing fo dellructive to the 

 mulberry plants, upon their fir ft coming 

 up, and for forae time after while they 

 are low, as fnails and fluggs ; they will 

 eat numbers of them down to the ground 

 in one night, and if it is a moift feafon, 

 they will almoft ruin a whole nurfery : 

 You fhould therefore be diligent to deftroy 

 them, efpecially a little after fun-fet, which 

 is better than in the morning, for then 

 they have done their night's mifchief. 

 You may likewife guard the beds, by fur- 

 rounding them with dry foot or afhes, 

 fprinkling frefh on it when it is grown 

 wet by rain, but no foot fhould be thrown 

 on the beds, being too hot and fcalding 

 for the young plants j the ilugs will not 

 care to pafsover this fence, efpecially while 

 it remains dry. 



Sand ftrowed on the beds is alfo a good 

 defence, and I have found a handful or 



two 



