'52 THE CULTURE 



CHAP. X. 



• OJ the form of a Mulberry plantation for 

 Silkworms, 



IN the foregoing chapters I have advifed 

 the planting of mulberry trees in a flat 

 form or fort of efpalier hedge j for though 

 in France and Italy they ufe only large 

 ftandards, yet I conceive this to be a very 

 inconvenient form for gathering the leaves, 

 which cannot be come at without ladders 

 and clambering among the branches, in 

 which method much injury muft be done 

 by breaking them, and alfo frequent dan- 

 ger of faUing incurred by the gatherers j 

 befides more time fpent in gathering, and 

 after all, the leaves will not be fo regular- 

 ly pulled. 



Du Haldes^ in his hiflory of Chinay fays 

 that they are very careful to prune and 

 keep their mulberry trees in fuch a form, 

 as fhall be moft convenient for gathering 

 the leaves, without injuring the trees, and 

 in the moft fpeedy manner 5 for which 

 reafon they keep them cut to an hollow 

 form, with no branches in the middle , fo 

 that a perfon, by going round the tree, 

 I can 



