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quick as cuttings 47. Of more certain growth 47 

 How to wean 47. Suckers of mulberries. To raife 

 trees from them 48. Root. Parts of, to raife mul- 

 berries by them 48. Inoculation failed on trees of 

 a different Species 49. Of planting out the mul- 

 berry trees 49, &c. Beft done in autumn 51. The 

 beft form of a mulberry plantation 52, &c. Its cul- 

 ture and pruning for Silkworms, 58, Sec. For fruit 

 62. N. B. Laying down a whole old tree is called 

 a ftool. 



Mulberry papyrific of Kaempher a very quick grower, is 

 of the white kind, and ufed for Silkworms. It has 

 been lately brought into England and thrives well. 



Mules point out a method for the true diftlndion of 

 the fpecies in plants and animals 13. 



Moths the laft form in which the Silkworms appears. 

 Defcribed 174. The time of their coming out 192. 

 Manner of coming out of the pod 174. Manage- 

 ment proper for them 192, &c. Females and males to 

 diftinguifh 194. Method of coupling them 194, 195, 

 How long they Ihould remain coupled 196. The 

 reafon of it 197- Paper bad to let the eggs be lay- 

 ed on 297. Wallnut leaves, or ruflies proper 297, 

 198. Each moth lays four or five hundred eggs 260. 

 Males ufelefs after coupling 199. Figure reprefenting 

 the woollen cloath, which is hung for them to be pair- 

 ed on 203. The ufe of it 204. 



Occafion of this treatife being written. Preface, page i. 



Paper or linen bad, to let Silkworms lay their eggs 



on 198. 

 Plantation of mulberry-trees the beft form for it 52, 

 Planting out of young mulberry- trees 49. 

 perfpiration of human bodies fufpedted to hurt the 



hatching of Silkworms e^gs 215. 

 PeflilentiaTfiate of the air, whence it may arife, and 



afted Silkworms 224. 

 Pods, Silk-pods or cocoons how formed by the worm 



1C9. What kind of fubllance 170, 171. How 



foot! 



