certaine feete of the forkednes of the trees or otherwise as it shall best accord with their capacitie seruing themselues in this place with very sharpe instruments to the ende not to disbarke nor shatter the trees and to make the cut very right which shall bee aslope to cast off the annoyance of the raine The time of this busines is euen as the lopping of other trees that is the winter to be passed the sap beginning to enter not before for the reasons alleadged elsewhere In a faire day not in a windie mistie nor rainy for the Mulberries shooting in like manner as other trees yea so vigorouslie as any other plant haue commonly the season of felling When to lay the bill to them But because in the Mulberries is considerable the lease the chiefest of their reuenue it is requisit to be vigilant to lose nothing if it bee possible the which one shall come vnto in delaying to cut them vntill May or in the beginning of Iune then when it behoueth to imploy the leaues By this meanes one hath seruice of the leaues the same yeere of the cutting of the trees the which one cannot doe without this backwardnesse And although that for the disbranching of them in such season the trees bring not forth that same yeere so great branches as if one lopped them in the moneths of February or March the time being a little shortned of their growing it inportes not seeing there is as much gotten for the yeere after in the which such branches though they be but little yet hauing won the aduantage grow great merueilouslie whereby the trees in a small time are amplie spread againe yet that against the precepts of arte constrained by necessitie that one cuttes the trees in rainie weather and without regarding the Moone as is fit they are of so free and good a disposition What time of the Moone is to be obserued Touching the age of the moone it is handled diuersely according to the diuersitie of the groundes that gouernes such actions By the heauenly influence the Mulberries pouled in the encrease of the moone bringes forth their younge shootes long without spreading branches and in the waine short with many little branches crossing the principalles For to compose the things hauing election of the time without constraint we will dishead those of our Mulberries being in a leane ground in the new Moone and in the last quarter planted in a fat ground So those there will be furnished with new shootes as long as the feeblenes of the groundes will permit them and these here through the force of the grounds will conueniently regaine that which to purpose they would not cut in the encrease by reason that their spirie branches being not kept back by the little shoots will lengthen too much whereby bending downe they will deforme the trees those remaining emptie in the midst after the maner of palme trees that being not to bee feared in the rest by reason of the leanenesse of the groundes which neuer causeth thē to shoot out too abundantly By this meanes they will put themselues in wood againe neuerthelesse some more then others according to the goodnes of the soile but not any so slowlie but that at the tenth yeere they will be capable to begin againe their accustomed seruice prouided It behooueth to plow the ground of the Mulberries the grounds be tilled as appertaines For in vaine one should trauaile exactly to entertaine the Mulberries by their branches if one makes not account of their rootes whereby at the length they faile as in such error those fall which to spare the tillage plante their Mulberries in meadowes where they impaire In which they deceiue themselues because they consider not that the Mulberries left in vntilled grounds cannot bring so many nor so good ieaues as those which are tilled And although there are seene many faire Mulberrie trees in meadowes the answer is that the earth is fat in ensuing if not contrary yet at the least not at all good for the Wormes or being leane the trees will not dure long through lacke of tilling The assured meanes In the vi chapter the xxvii booke of husbandrie that there is to dresse a Mulberrie-yard thick spread with boughes and to keepe it without expence vntill a reasonable greatnes to serue well is represented hereafter in the discourse of the fruite trees that is in planting the Mulberries in rankes by line and leuel from foure to foure or from fiue to fiue fathams and in the same rankes to plant Vines amongst them low or propped according to the vsage of the countrey the which by labour will bring their fruit without alteration fifteene or twentie yeeres when being oppressed vnder the shaddow of the trees they wil fal vnder the burthē then one shal pul them vp to leaue the place free for the trees which will onely occupie it and so one shall find to haue brought them vp for nothing The which shall be to finish the discourse of the victuall of our little beast for to make them their lodging The lodging of the Silk-wormes It behoueth also to dresse a lodging for our Wormes with such commoditie that they may easily doe their worke for to yeeld vs abundance of good silke The which one should hope in vaine lodging them in a place vnproper and contrarie to their nature for as they cannot be deceiued in their foode without manifest losse no more can they suffer an ill habitation And as one must not enterprise to plant the vine if he bee not forthwith prouided of cellers and vessels for the wine so this would bee to no purpose if one should plant the Mulberrie-yard without afterward to giue quarter and place to the Wormes All such like habitation desire they as men that is spacious pleasant wholesome far from ill sents dampes and humidities warme in the cold time and fresh in the hot neere the foundation nor vnder the lathings of the couerings neere the tyles one must not lodge the Silke-worme because of the intemperatenes of these two cōtrarie situations whereby the one may be too moyst the other too windie too hot too cold according to the seasons Neuerthelesse that is to be borne withal so that one can erect the lodging of the Wormes on one only stage neere the ground prouided that the plot-forme be erected three or foure feete for to auoid dampes and ouer that that there bee boords close ioyned to the end the creatures may be kept aloofe from the tyles the approch and neerenesse of which is alwaies hurtful vnto them because that the windes and colds pierce through them the heate of the Sunne is there insupportable when it lights The reckoning vp of the fitnes of the lodging for the Wormes vpon them in his force If for the capacity of your house you can commodiously be fitted for roome to feede them in it will be great ease to you and
vp One only man will gouerne so many Wormes as you wil prouided hee bee assisted the which will be done with folke of little price seeing all sorts of persons men and women are capable of it Touching the seed As for the feed of the Wormes you are not to recken vp that which they haue cost you because they will restore you enough euery yeere in renuing thē for the conseruation of the graine But here will lie such expence in the rancke of that made in the buying of bords and tables for the skaffolds as also for the making fit the lodging these things are to be ordained for the ground-worke of this reuenue being durable without consuming at the least but very little And although it is requisit to haue euery yeere some small quantity of new seed to continue a good race as shall be said yet is there for that no more expence seeing that of the sale of the seed which you shall reserue you may buy of another for your purpose Vpon which discourses making your account you shall find that much better cheape you shall keep the Wormes comming of ten ounces of grain then fiue and twenty or thirty sheepe for the which yea for lesse number you must keepe a shepheard all the yeere which are three hundred sixtie fiue daies So by that you euidently see how much the expences of one cattell differs from the other And by this reckoning which of the two makes more reuenue though that by vniuersall iudgement the yeelding of sheepe is very profitable And doubt not but that Cato in his answeres touching feeding for to become rich had meant it of the Silke-worme if This feeding hindereth no worke of the ground hee had had the knowledge of it The feeding of Silke-wormes is likewise very commendable because they hinder not any worke of the fields comming in the moneths of Aprill and May when they haue no other occupation to call them from it Giuing such backwardnes a meane for the master easily to find sufficient people to serue this turne the which in this time hauing no other busines are very easie to be had to get their liuing and some piece of money to come forth out of the backe season of the yeere wherby the nourishing of this cattell is made more easie by them only contemned which know not how much the ell is worth But for the rest the licorishnesse of the coyne that they drawe from it without losse of their other husbandrie but as casuall accompts affects them continually to plant new Mulberrie trees with augmentation of the number in like sort to augment their reuenue Of the Mulberrie trees The Mulberry trees being the chiefest foundation of this reue 〈…〉 e that shall be the first whereat you shall leuell for to plant so great a quantitie and so soone that in a short time they may giue you contentment The which you cannot hope of a small number while they are young for the little leafe-age which they render till they are come to a meane growth But to attend while the Mulberries haue reacht their perfect greatnes and not till then to disleaue them to serue in this purpose would bee to passe your time without tasting the sweetnes of this reuenue Wherfore it is necessary to haue abūdance of these trees to the end that of many little ones you may draw as many leaues as from a few great ones So without much tarrying after their planting you shall reape pleasure and profit within a few yeeres Such a great quantitie of Mulberries may be limited to two or three thousand trees a lesse number I thinke the master of the worke ought not to enterprise this busines withall because here is a question of the profit which cannot grow but of a sufficient number of trees For the particular nature of the worke it is necessary here to employ it in a great volume otherwise the play wil not be worthy the candle that being for women which for pleasure nourish some few of this creature Yet the master of the worke shall not stay heere in so faire a way but shall augment alwaies his Mulberrie yard therto adding euery yeere certaine hundreds of Mulberrie trees for that at the length plentiously abounding in leaues he may haue wherwith to nourish great quātitie of Wormes and the rest also for the succour of his trees whereof a part shall rest as shall be demonstrated in these discourses following The 7. booke 7. chapter of Husbandrie Of the order requisite to plant and bring vp the Mulberries is not heere a question to speake of elsewhere the Science being shewed but very well to represent the obseruations necessary for their scituation and entertainement that the trees may be conueniently lodged and gouerned to endure long in seruice For not taking good heed within a little time they wil faile as waxing old in their first youth These trees are so easie to take roote that wheresoeuer it please you you may bring them vp but with much more aduancement they will grow in a fatte and moyst ground then in a leane and dry For the quantitie of the leaues it is to be desired to plant the trees in a good soile but not for the quality because that the leafe neuer comes forth so fruitfully out of the fat earth as out of the leane hauing that of common with the Vines whereof the most exquisite grow in a light molde so that that land there brings a grosse and fulsome leafe and this here a delicate and sauorous likewise of the nurture of this latter leafe the Wormes commonly make a good end the which happens very rarely of the other yet that The fifth place for good and wholesome leaues is by the meeting of a kindly season The leaues of Mulberries will be well qualified as appertaineth if you plant them in a leane place far from springs of water prouided that they he exposed to the Sun for with the Vines the Mulberries hate a watrish and shadowie situation in some there will bee the most assured foode where thevines grow best And though that the Vine the Mulberries to compare them together brings forth more in a strong ground then in a feeble yet so it is that the little of their bearing being delicate is more to bee prized then the abundance of that which is grosse Adding that touching this cattell here one cannot abuse nor deceiue him in giuing him meate contrary to his nature for either he will refuse to eate it or eating of it will neuer doe well And this his delicatenesse turnes to the profit of his master which imployes his leane grounds in Mulberries and by consequent occupies not his fertill plow-lands which remaine to him francke and not charged with these trees of which the importunitie is very great oppressing by the rootes and branches almost all sorts of seede which can be sowed neere them But to thinke also to plant Mulberries in
a base and infertill ground that should be a falling into extremitie grossely deceiuing ones selfe for the little growth they will make although they take there their tarditie giuing you cause enough to repent you of this Where to plantthe Mulberrie counsell These shall be then the places where you shall edifie your Mulberries which you shall iudge proper for the vine that is to wit in a soyle of a meane goodnes rather drie then moyst light then heauie sandy then clayie Such a ground will beare leaues to your desire and in a meane quantitie whereby you shall haue sufficient by the way of numbers of trees amplifying them as hath been said How to dispose the Mulberries for woodes in ranckes Frō foure to foure fathoms or frō fiue to fiue in al pathes to the line you shall plante the Mulberries if you wil make forrests of them desiring to dispose thē by ranks at the borders of your plough lands or about the sides of other possessions they may be plāted somewhat neerer together without restraining thē too much the which cannot be done without great losse to the trees one may very well amplifie the distance as much as one will for the Mulberries cānot be set too far a sunder seeing the apparēt profit that the aire the Sun the amplitude of the groūds aides to the growing great of the trees and goodnesse of the leaues But for that the onely sides and By allies borders of arable lands Vineyardes other parts of a demeanes moderately large doe not suffice to receiue a great number of Mulberries requisit for abundance of food and that elsewhere the leaues of the trees which are within the thickets is not so good as those about because they neither haue sun nor windes at libertie A meane between these two extreames hath been found conueniently to plant the Mulberries for the profit of their leaues and without hindering the tillage of good lands that is to plant the Mulberries amongst the lands in double racks equally distant two fathomes and a halfe being of like measure espaced one tree from an other the two rancks making one alley and to dispose the allees in length and crosse the field intercrossing one another leauing great square plots emptie euery one cōteyning an acre or more if one wil there to sow corne which will bee reaped without being trowden downe by the gatherers of the leaues But these will be the allies which onely will suffer the treading downe where for their small occupation of ground the losse of the corne will not be great It will likewise be necessarie to plant the trees in such sort that they be not one right against the other to the end not to enterpresse rather that he of one ranke be set against the emptie place of the other by that they will haue aire enough to grow flourishngly by the aide of the Sun which will remaine free for them on the sides of the great squares In the which not onely may bee commodiously sowne corne but also planted vines where they will profit being not there too much cloyed with the shaddow of the trees yea spread with pastures hauing but giuen to the trees 4 or 5 yeres for to roote For by the manner of the parted land of the allies well tilled and sometimes dunged the Mulberries will profit enough For the hard turfe of the pasture cannot much hurt them seeing it ioyneth but on one side So shall the Mulberrie-yard bee directed with much profit for the good of the leaues and without any thing hindring the demeanes which so furnished with Mulberries will remaine most pleasant to behold so will they spread and amplifie so much the better the more often the master shall visit his land as to that he shall bee stirred vp by the easie walks in these faire allies in which if it seemeth him good he shal sowe some graines as oats or field pease which will alwaies pay for tillage of the ground The sorts of the Mulberries There are two races of Mulberries discerned by these words blacke and white discordant in wood leafe and fruite hauing neuerthelesse that in common to spring late the dangers of the coldes being past and of their leaues to nourish the Silk-worme One sees but one sort of the blacke Mulberries the woode whereof is solid and strong the leafe large and rude in the handling the fruit blacke great and Three colors of fruit of white Mulberries good to eate But of the white there is manifestly knowne three species or sorts distinguished by the onely colour of the fruit which is white blacke and red so separately brought forth by diuers trees bearing all neuerthelesse the name of white This fruit is little disagreeable of taste for his flashie sweetnes whereby it is not edable by others then by women which haue lost their relish children and poore people in time of famine For the rest they resemble all three one another discording nothing by themselues neither in leaues which they bring forth of a meane greatnes and a smooth feeling nor in wood being yellow within as that of the blacke Mulberry and almost as firme by reason whereof all these Mulberries are proper and fit for Ioyners worke The leafe comming of the blacke Mulberries The silke takes his quality of the leafe makes the silke grosse strong and heauie on the contrarie that of the white fine weake and light so different through diuersitie of the nature of the leaues wherwith the Wormes are nourished which they yeeld of their worke For which many desiring to compound these things in hope of profite feed the Wormes with two sorts of meates by distinction of times that is to say at the beginning with white leaues to haue the silke fine and in the ende with blacke to fortifie it and make it weigh In which alwaies they meete not sometimes the changing of the meate as of the delicate into grosse being not agreeable to the Wormes which are importuned and cloyed with it Nor shall it be to purpose for the grosse founding which one would giue to the silke holding a contrarie way to begin by the blacke leafe and ende by the white So such mingling of meates is not receiued in the great feedings of the Silke-wormes but only where the leafe of the white Mulberrie is rare inuented for necessitie For the most assured it shall be all of one victell wherewith we will nourish our Wormes and that of the most profitable which yeeldes to silke the which how much the more fine it is so much the more prized and in the ensuing so much more money it giueth the end period of this busines And yet though that the white leafe makes the silke feeble and light you must not for that set it behind the blacke seeing the same discords not so much in his qualities from that comming of the blacke leafe but that there remaines force enough for the most exquisite
workes and weight sufficient to bring in reasonable summes This is in comparison of that silke there that this is held light and weake such being the difference betweene grosse and subtill things Neuerthelesse one must not be so scrupulous as vtterly to reiect the blacke Mulberries for the silke but only for the mingling of the food it being not permitted in the nourishing of them but by constraint as I haue saide Touching that which remaines there are countries where they are very profitable for this busines as in diuers places of Lumbardie and hitherwards in Anduze and Alez and in other places towards the Seuenes of Languedoc where great profit is made of the silke which comes of the blacke Mulberries And although that such sorts of silke for the grosenes be but of little price in respect of the other yet leaueth it not for that but to bring in a good reuenue considering the quantitie Iointly that for the sale it is found necessary though it be course in many works in which it is imployed The white Mulberries grow faster thē the black If your land be already planted with blacke Mulberries keep you there without affecting your selfe to accompany them with white for the reason alleaged but being a question to begin the husbandrie hauing not any Mulberries of one sort nor other preferring the better before the good you shall alwaies chuse the white for your Mulberrie-yard In which it seemes that nature her selfe incites vs by the fore growing that she hath giuen to the white Mulberrie beyond the blacke it being an assured thing that the white Mulberries do more easilie take and grow then the black aduancing more in two yeeres then the other in sixe Besides which commoditie the branches which by that speedy shoot they bring forth is cut at times as wood augmenting the reuenue of such trees How to chuse the best kind of Mulberries Amōgst the white Mulberries yet there is choise By the searching out of some it hath been found that the leaues comming of the white Mulberrie bearing the blacke berries are better then any other Of which curiositie making vse we will furnish our Mulberrie-yard if it bee possible only with the Mulberries of such sort to the intent that in our nurture nothing be wanting Neuerthelesse as the humors of men are diuers some hold that the leaues of the trees bearing the white Mulberries are the best prouing their opinion by the poullen and swine which neuer delite in the fruite of the Mulberrie trees bearing red and blacke berries but through want of others by that deeming them most delicate Aboue all be sure to banish from your Mulberrie-yard the leaues too much indented for besides that it is an apparent signe of small substance it abounds not so much in food as that which hath To graft those Mulberries which haue need lesse nickes Wherefore the remedie is to inoculate such trees in the budde or scutchion hauing need of such freedome whence the profit which comes of it is great for this food seeing that by this meanes the little of the naughty and wretched leaues may bee conuerted into abundance of substantiall and good with as much aduantage to change in orchards by like arte the sauage and wilde fruits into manured and good a notable article and point for this husbandrie This infrāchising may be practised to your wish in Mulberries of all ages young and old in those here on their new shoots of the precedent yeere the trees hauing bin then poled or without so much delaying to haue dissheaded them in the moneth of March Iune following to graft them and in those there vpon the smallest trees of the nurserie To graft these trees in their tender youth is much to be prized for the aduātage to be had in making the Mulberry ground entirely affranchised For prouiding that certain hūdreds of trees may be grafted it sufficeth once for all without constraint to returne backe againe so that the nursery be alwaies kept full the which is done by planting the branches comming frō the grafts of the which so many trees wil grow vp as there are braunches couched in the ground and of those afterwards others comming forth are of the same planted infinitely from which the trees comming of them for euer are furnisht with excellent leaues sweet and great and by consequent exempt from all wildnesse exquisite and abundant in nourishment See what places and trees you are to chuse for your Mulberry yardes to the end to haue abundance of good silke To gather the leaues for to be giuen to the Wormes For the order which one is to hold in gathering the mulberry leaues for the victuales of these creatures consisteth the second article of this work for to make the trees of a perpetuall seruice It is to be noted that to plucke off the leaues bringes great damage to al trees oftentimes euen causing them to dye but seeing that the Mulberry is destined to that it naturally supporteth such tempest better then any other plant yet neuerthelesse you must goe to it very retentiuely for to disleaue the Mulberrie inconsideratlie is the way to scorch them for euer to cause them miserably to die in languishment Euery one confesseth that to gather the leaues with both hands leafe after leafe without touching the shoote is the most assured way for conseruation of the trees but yet the most expensiue because of the great number of necessarie persons for such worke For to spare cost the vulgar proceedes in an other sort which is in stripping of the leaues by handfuls the which cannot be done but that often the branches are barked and sliued whereby at the length the trees perish And also this gathering corrupts and soyles the leaues to the detriment of the Wormes when in taking them after the fashion as they vse to milke kine one crushes them as though one would make the ioyce come forth and most oftentimes with vncleane handes causing them to haue an ill smell and sauour These losses may be preuented if after the vses of In cutting them off with sheeres certaine places in Spaine the leaues be gathered by shearing of them from the trees with great taylers sheeres the which cutting many stalkes at once and that falling vpon sheetes spreed vnder the treee the expence being moderate as by being directly carried to the little beasts without any sorting as necessarily it behoueth to do before to imploy them in separating that which is spoyled from the good and the young springs with it which for their tendernesse are hurtfull to the Wormes seeing that in vsing the sheeres one spares the toppes of the trees taking none but the well qualified leaues Of this inuention one cannot indifferently be furnished euery where but only where the situation of the trees fauours the worke fitly to spread the sheetes receptacles of the leaues nor likewise in windy nor rayny times the which is committed to the discretion of
the worke-master for to imploy it finding the commoditie For want of which clipping one may draw the leaues the most gently that one can and with the smallest detrimēt of the trees that may It behoueth their hands be washed before they gather the leaves be possible the gatherers of the leaues shall wash their hands before they touch them and shall repose them in very cleane sackes to the ende they may be preserued from all soyle The trees suffer lesse when one clipes them than The danger of the leaues which are not wel gouerned whē one disleaues them otherwise neuerthelesse although one goes to it very vigilātly it is alwaies with their losse whereby at last they perish pulling euery yeere the value of their leaues vnmeasurably that their vigor decayes The which is the principall cause that the keeping of the Wormes is not alwaies of like yeelding the one as others seeing other then good leaues cannot succesfully nourish these creatures For that cannot bee good which comes of a tree ill gouerned in taking of the leaues but only that tree which hauing been well handled during the precedent yeeres remaineth vigorous For so those deceiue themselues which without taking neere heede to this sinke themselues in this busines From thence proceedes the most frequent defaults of this foode and not of the nature of the worke as scrupulouslie nay superstitiouslie and fantastiquely many of the vulgar ignorants hold that they cannot meete well two yeeres together for some hidden imperfection that they hold to bee in this creature that some giues without any reason taking for their lodging no heede to the things It shal be good to disleaue the trees but once in two yeeres aforesaid To the end therefore to assure this busines for one which ought to haue preeminence you shall aduise touching the Mulberries in placing and gouerning them as I haue said And going on farther to haue so great a quantitie of these trees if it be possible that the only halfe may suffice for your foode which shall bee disleaued while the other will make ready for the next yeere following After the imitation of arable landes enter changing euery yeere the Mulberrie-yard diuided in two parts shall serue and rest whereby the trees will bee maintained in perfect state abundantly to furnish with good leaues for many generations as well for the trees not to be so much tormented in their branches as by this resting there rootes will haue to bee tilled without expence for that the cost of plowing will arise from the corne which one sowes in that part of the resting ground remayning from the annoyance of the Mulberries the which onely one shall sow with corne leauing the other vnsowen the yere of disleauing your Mulberries so much the more easie to gather the leaues of the trees without laying the corne as without such order one should doe in treading it downe by this meanes drawing the worthie yeelding both of the trees and ground 〈…〉 which comes of it Ouer and besides this notable commoditie there is ioyned that then when by luckie foode the leaues ordained for the Wormes want as some times that happens with great displeasure and sorrow to see them perish through famine the Wormes are happily succoured with the leaues which one takes of the trees that rest here there in many trees and in diuers places without damaging them in such quantity as is requisit for the perfection of the enterprise and also that vnder the Mulberries all sort of seedes can hardly thriue for the hinderance of the rootes and branches of these trees as hath been said yet so it is that the losse will bee lesse the lesse the corne being there is troden downe as freed from such tempest it will remaine which there shall be sowne in the manner aforesaid the yeelding of which although it be but little will defray the tillage whereby in this place you shall do that which you desire that is you shall keepe in good temper the rootes of your trees What seed to sow vnder the Mulberries with smallest losse Of all graines those which most constantly endure the detriment of the Mulberries are oates and field pease although one be constrained to tread them down for the gathering of the leaues yet cannot one doe them great hurt by reason that the blades of these graines wil be then backwards when the trees shall be disleaued hauing not yet much growne which also somewhat helps them hauing pressed them to the earth a thing which cannot be donne to wheate rie nor barley by reason whereof one cannot sow them cōueniently in the Mulberryyard but by constraint But to sow nothing at all in the Mulberrie-yard and yet lesse not to till the grounde for the good of the Mulberries would bee too expensiue which will bee spared by the way aforesaid To soyle these trees is likewise requisit it is To soyle the Mulberries to be vnderstood of those which by the leannesse of the ground remaine in languishment the which by such handling are helped to continue their seruice the want of doing the which will cause them to faile The leaues of the old Mulberries are very good before their time Experience shewes that the leaues of the old Mulberries are more profitable healthfull for the Wormes than those of the young ones prouided that they be not fallē into extreame decay but retayning their ancient vigour hauing yet some remainders of strength communicating such qualitie with the Vine which brings better wine old When the leaues of the young ones are good then young And as the Vine begins to beare good wine after the seauen or eight first yeeres of his planting so likewise the Mulberries in the same age open the gate to their assured reuenew so that from thence euer after one shall not faile to draw from them their hoped-for seruice Many neuerthelesse at this day do not tarry till this terme vsing without delay all sorts of leaues euen of the youngest Mulberries being yet in the nurserie before their replanting But it is with more vncertainty of a good issue than of that growing on trees already growen to perfection according to the more common vsage When and how to prune the trees So soone after you shall haue bared the trees of their leaues you shall cause them to bee pruned in cutting off all that shall bee found broken and writhed with tempest of disleauing to the end they may put foorth to shoote afresh the which without that they will neuer doe well but languishingly The last gatherers of the leaues shall bee then followed foote by foote with a couple of men that shall so dresse the Mulberries the which shall cut the dead wood the disbarked branches writhed and shiuered likewise the tops of all the others in what part of the tree soeuer they be aboue or on the sides for to constraine the trees to cloath themselues afresh and of this new