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twigs within two or tliree inches of the 

 edge of your flielf, bending their tops in- 

 ward, fo as to bear on the flielf above ; 

 then place another row of twigs, at about 

 a foot diflance, with their tops bending 

 fo as to meet and form an arch with the 

 firft rov/. The tiiird row of twigs, which 

 is to form one fide of the next arch, mufl 

 be placed within two or three inches of 

 your fecond row, with the tops bended 

 the contrary way ; and the fourth row, 

 which compleats this fecond arbour, at a- 

 bout a foot diftance, with the tops bended 

 fo as to meet and arch with the third row ; 

 and thus proceed till you have formed as 

 many of thefe arbours as the flielf will 

 contain, w^hich will not be above two, in 

 a fhelf of three foot fquare, or three on a 

 flielf of four foot fquare j becaufe the 

 bufliy partitions between the arches, and 

 alfo thole of the outer fldes, will each be 

 four or five inches in thicknefs. You 

 mufl fliift the worms afide to make vacant 

 lanes where each partition ranges. 



You fliould form thefe arbours fo as to 

 have a fort of bufliy appearance without 

 being too thick or too thin, but fo that 

 the worms may have room enough to fpin, 

 and yet the vacuities among the twigs not 



be 



