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till juft before you want to make ufe of 

 them ; and then may be carried into the 

 room which you defign for them. 



Before you put the filkworms on the tree,^' 

 you (hould take a piece of bays or any ordi- 

 nary cloth, and making a cut half acrofs 

 its middle, let the flem of the tree go into 

 it i then few up the cut and bring the 

 cloth clofe up to the under branches of 

 the tree on each fide, and fix it, thus fpread, 

 in fuch a manner, that if any worms 

 chance to fall, they may be caught by it, 

 and alfo by its lying clofe to the branches, 

 may make their way up again ; then place 

 the worms on it in the fame manner as 

 Was directed in the former part of this 

 chapter, when they were to be placed on 

 the trees abroad. 



If you think the weather too cold, or 

 that the leaves are not {ufficiently opened, 

 you may, in this as well as the foregoing 

 method, defer putting the worms on the 

 trees, till they have even pa ■ led their firft 

 moulting. Neither fhouid too many be 

 put on a tree, left they fhouid have eaten 

 all the leaves before they were ready to 

 fpin ; about two hundred worms will be 

 enough on one of thefe fmali trees, even 

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