INDEX. 29^ 



Layers to mife mulberry- trees from them 46. More 

 certain of growth than cuttings 47. More lazy to 

 ftrike root 47. 



Litter of Silkworms to prevent its falling on the lower 

 hurdles 141. 



Lazy to fpin, how to manage fuch worms 166, 167. 



Leaves of the mulberry tree how to be gathered, J05, 

 &c. Eafieft gathered from hedges ic6. Age of them 

 fhould fuit the age of the worms 106. To keep 

 them frefh 108. Provifton to be made of them in 

 rainy v/eather 109. Bad leaves 110. Berries mixed 

 with them, hurtful iii. Leaves not to be bruif- 

 ed 112. Striping them downward doth not hurt the 

 branch 112. Should be fliced for young worms 124. 

 Difadvantage of ftrowing them too thick over the 

 worms 125. Unwholfome leaves no. 



Moift weather makes Silkworms languid 226. 



Moulting of Silkworms 113. its final caufe 120. The 

 flrft moulting is appearnce 130. The fecond 1340 

 The third 141. The fourth 145. 



Mulberry- tree, different kinds 11. Generals properties 

 and ufes 1 3. White beft for Silkworms and why 1 3. 

 Black fort will feed Silkworms 17. Different ways 

 of raifmg mulberry-trees 19. Seed manner of fav- 

 ing it 19, &c. fhould not be chofen from trees which 

 were difleaf'd 20. To feparate the beft feed 21. 

 The foil proper for the raifing and planting of mul- 

 berries 25, &c. Hov/ to raife them from the feed 

 28, &c. Seed may be fown as foon as it is ripe in 

 fome climates 30. Pafling in digeflion thro' foma 

 animals, fprings up the fooner 31. Young feedlinTS 

 much deftroyed by fnails 32. To prevent this ■^ -5. 

 Crops of feedlings to mow 34. To encreafe the^ 

 heat of feed- beds 36. Cuttings the method of raif- 

 ing trees from them 37, &c. Autumn the beft tims 



38. Hedges the beit form for mulberry plantadons 



39. Cuttings muft be water'd well 41. and fhaded 

 in great heat 42. Layers. Of railing mulberry- trees 

 by them 46. Why "they don't piit forth roots ib 



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