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make ftili greater difj atch. This however, 

 need not be done till the (hoots have got 

 fome length of grovith, for when the 

 v/orms are very young, it is eafy to make 

 proviiion for them. 



It is of confequence alfo to have the plan^ 

 tation at no great diilance from the place 

 where the filkw^orms are kept, that you 

 may not fpend much time in bringing the 

 leaves home, and alfo that you may the 

 readier be fupplied upon fadden occafions : 

 or when . the weather threatens rain, 

 and warns you to make a provifion of 

 leaves before they have received wet, be- 

 caufe it would be a great labour to dry 

 them for large quantities of worms, and 

 yet this muft be done if they have receiv'd 

 any moifcure. 



Thefe are fome of the principal advan- 

 tages which would be obtain'd by mulberry- 

 trees being planted in the form of hedges j 

 the fame would be obtain'd, if the fmgle 

 trees w^ere train'd in a flat form, though 

 they did not compofe one continued hedge, 

 in which cafe the branches might be al- 

 lowed to extend laterally as far as they 

 could, and when they become too long to 

 fupi ort themfelves, they might be fupport- 

 ed here and there by branches of afh or 



other 



