io6 THE CULTURE 



though by the time that you have pull'd a 

 good many of your other trees, it fhould have 

 thrown out a confidei able quantity of Jeaves, 

 both becaufe it would injure the tree, and 

 becaufe thefe leaves would be improper for 

 the worms, being a fecond growth and 

 tender j whereas the worms will then be 

 advanced in age, and require older leaves. 



If your trees are kept in a flat form, 

 being planted like an efpalier hedge, you 

 may begin regularly at one end of your 

 hedge, and pull the leaves regularly on, 

 inaking a mark every day as far as you 

 have pull'd, that you may not go over the 

 fame part twice -, and thus when you have 

 gone in order down one fide of the hedge, 

 you return up the other, and fo proceed 

 to another hedge. 



If the hedges run in lines from north to 

 fouth, pull the call fide fiiil, becaufe in 

 fpring, when the fun is weakefl, it will be 

 firfi: dried after the morning dew j but as 

 the feafon advances in warmth, the weftern 

 fide will be lufiiciently dried, though the 

 fun has not fhone upon it when you begin 

 to pull in the morning. It is beft I think 

 to have the hedges run from north to fouth, 

 that each fide may fhare the fun alike j 



but 



