34 THE CULTURE 



the cooler climates will fcarce ever be ne» 

 ceffary. 



If violent rains fhould have waflied away 

 the earth, and made the young fcediings 

 too bare toward their roots, a little line 

 rich mould put between each drill will re- 

 pair the injury, and alfo help their growth. 



In luch climates as England the young 

 feedlings will not be above three inches 

 high the firfc year. In warmer ones they 

 make a great advance, for in fome parts 

 of the Eaft-Indics it is faid that they fow 

 large quantities of mulberry- feed, whole 

 crops they reap down, and feed their filk- 

 worms with them ; and that the fdk made 

 from thefe tender flioots is eafily difcerna- 

 ble, by its finenefs, from that which is 

 railed from the leaves, which again fhoot 

 the fame year, and are ufed for a fecond 

 biood of worm.s. If this is fo, it is like- 

 liefl to be done by thofe who live between 

 the tropicks, where, having a double 

 ipring, the crop v/hich was fown the fpring 

 foregoing, may ferve to feed the worms 

 that are hatched in the beginning of the 

 fpring following, but of this we have no 

 perfecl accciints, as neither of their me- 

 thods of ma ?ioging the filk worms, in which 

 § they 



