156 THE CULTURE 



In order to drefs the flielves for your 

 worn:is to fpin their filk, you fiiould have 

 prepared before hand good quantities of 

 broom, heath, pruning of vines or fuch 

 like materials, of v^hich broom is the beft, 

 which fliould be very well dryed, in the 

 fun, fometime before you ufe them, and 

 fhculd be free from leaves, and all dirt, 

 moifture, mouldinefs, or offenfive fixiell ; 

 -thefe branches fliould be laid in bundles 

 like a whilk or befom, their fmall tops 

 placed as ecjual together as you can, and 

 then you fliould with a bill-hook cut off 

 their thick ends, fo as to leave them half 

 a foot longer than the diilance between 

 each fhelf, that, when the thick ends are 

 fet on the flielf, the fmall twigs being ben- 

 ded, may bear againil the bottom of the 

 flielf which is above it. With thefe twigs 

 you are to form feveral long arbours, arch- 

 ed at top, quite acrofs each fhelf; the 

 diftance between the fides of thefe arbours, 

 fhould leave the arch open quite through, 

 about a foot wide, that there may be room 

 to put in your arm, and feed thofe worms 

 which are not yet quite ready to fpin. 



You muil form thefe arbours by the 

 following method : firfl: place one row of 



twigs 



