CHAP, i S Y L V A 213 



has lately sent out of Italy, and dedicated to the 

 Royal Society, as a specimen and noble effect of its 

 universal correspondence, and concernments for the 

 improvement of useful knowledge. To this I add 

 that beneficial passage of the learned Dr. Beale, com- 

 municated in the 1 2th. vol. Philos. Transactions^ n. 133. 

 p. 8 1 6, where we find recommended the promotion 

 of this tree in England, from its success in several 

 Northern Counties, and even in the moist places of 

 Ireland : He shews how it may be improv'd by 

 graffing on the fig; or the larger black mulberry, on 

 that of the smallest kind : Also of what request the 

 Diamoron^ or Guidenie made of the juice of this fruit, 

 was with the Ancients, with other excellent obser- 

 vations : What other incomparable remedies the fruit 

 of this tree affords, see Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 23. cap. 7. 

 There is a mulberry-tree brought from Virginia not 

 to be contemn'd ; upon which they find silk-worms, 

 which would exceed the silk of Persia it self, if the 

 planters of nauseous tabacco did not hinder the culture. 

 Sir Jo. Berkley (who was many years Governor of that 

 ample Colony) told me, he presented the King (Char. 

 II.) with as much of silk made there, as made his 

 Majesty a compleat suit of apparel. Lastly, let it 

 not seem altogether impertinent, if I add one pre- 

 monition to those less experienc'd gardners, who fre- 

 quently expose their orange, and like tender-furniture 

 trees of the green-house too early : That the first 

 leaves putting forth of this wise tree, (sapientissima, 

 as 1 Pliny calls it) is a more infallible note when those 

 delicate plants may be safely brought out to the air, 

 than by any other prognostick or indication. For 

 other species, vid. Rait Dendro. p. 12. 



1 A ntora, ob tarditatem. 



