PREFACE . 



IN preparing this Manual the author has been guided 

 by the personal experience which he has had for seve- 

 ral years in the culture of the Mulberry Tree and 

 rearing of Silk Worms in the State of Massachusetts. 



In addition to the instruction which his own prac- 

 tical knowledge in the business has suggested, he has 

 made use of the following works, from some of which 

 he has made considerable extracts, where he found the 

 instruction conveyed was such, as from the test of ex- 

 perience he could recommend, viz. The Manual 

 published under the authority of Congress ; the two 

 first numbers of the Silk Culturist, by Dr Felix Pascalis, 

 of New York ; Mr Wm. H. Vernon's abridgment 

 of the large French work of M. de la Brousse ; Es- 

 says on American Silk by Messrs D'Homergue and 

 Du Ponceau, of Philadelphia ; and a pamphlet published 

 by Gideon B. Smith, Esq. of Baltimore. The au- 

 thor tenders his thanks to several of the above-named 

 gentlemen for the liberty which they have permitted 

 him to take, as also for many personal communications 



