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make, and plunge the line, full of mashed berries, 

 into the trench ; then cover it well over with earth, 

 always remembering afterwards to water it plenti- 

 fully, which is indcspensablc to success. The seeds 

 of the berries thus sown will grow, and soon shoot 

 out suckers which will bear young leaves, and these 

 are considered the best for the food oftheSilkwonn. 

 The facility and rapidity with which young leaves 

 may by this means be produced is evident ; for you 

 can fill as many rows of trenches in this way as are 

 required, and it can never be necessary to have 

 mulberry-trees higher than our raspberry, cunant, 

 or gooseberry bushes. Whenever they get beyond 

 that height they lose their value ; and if these 

 branches succeed, you may have a supply coming 

 fresh up day after day, or any quantity you please." 

 In climates of a similar temperature with that of 

 Great Britain, seedlings will seldom reach above 

 three inches in height during the first year. It is 

 different however, in eastern countries where these 

 seedlings arc mounded, in the succeeding, for feed- 

 ing the Silkworms ; and a second crop is in like 

 manner cut for the food to a second brood of cater- 

 pillars. Those experienced in the culture of Silk- 

 worms can readily recognise the silk produced by 

 caterpillars fed on these young shoots, from the 

 superiority of its texture. Those fed on the leaves 

 of the mature mulberry, always produce an inferior 

 quality of silk. 



