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gathered j they fhould therefore fhake the 

 trees before they begin to pull, and if it 

 is an hedge in the efpalier manner, they 

 may fhake it with a forked pole without 

 wetting themfelves, and thus they will 

 throw off a good quantity of the moifture ; 

 and for what remains, it muft be taken off 

 by fhaking and tolling the leaves between 

 two dry fheets of linen, and afterwards 

 fpreading and airing them as above j for 

 no necefiity fhould force you to give them 

 to the worms v/hile any moifture remains, 

 it is better they fliould faft. The gatherers 

 Ihould not ftay till they had pulled their 

 whole quantity, in this laft cafe ; but 

 fliould at leaft lend in a fufficiency of leaves 

 for one feeding, as foon as they have ga- 

 thered them, that they may be fufficiently 

 dryed by the time they are to be ufed. 



As gathering the leaves in moift weather 

 is to be avoided, fo is alfo the pulling them 

 after they have born the fcorching heat of 

 the mid-day fun -, they might then be too 

 deftitute of fap, and would be apt to wither, 

 and grow unfit for the worms before they 

 were all ufed. 



The leaves of trees which grow in moifl 

 grounds, or where they are fo Iliaded that 



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