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A11936	The perfect vse of silk-vvormes, and their benefit With the exact planting, and artificiall handling of mulberrie trees whereby to nourish them, and the figures to know how to feede the wormes, and to winde off the silke. And the fit maner to prepare the barke of the white mulberrie to make fine linnen and other workes thereof. Done out of the French originall of D'Oliuier de Serres Lord of Pradel into English, by Nicholas Geffe Esquier. With an annexed discourse of his owne, of the meanes and sufficiencie of England for to haue abundance of fine silke by feeding of silke-wormes within the same; as by apparent proofes by him made and continued appeareth. For the generall vse and vniuersall benefit of all those his countrey men which embrace them. Neuer the like yet here discouered by any.; Theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs. Part 5. Chapter 15. English	Serres, Olivier de, 1539-1619.; Geffe, Nicholas.	1607 (1607)	STC 22249; ESTC S117159	60,238	108

shoote to bring forth for the next yeere after abundance of leaues tender and delicate And whether it be in gathering the leaues or in pruning the trees it behoueth you to be carefull to bare them entirely without leauing them any leaues for feare to turne back their liberall new spring an obseruation that practise hath taught a little while since against the custome which was not to touch the shoote thinking by that to giue growth to the trees but the effect is seene cleane contrary Vsing such order they will not tarry to spring out most vigorously so that they will leafe againe in such sort that within one moneth after one will say there hath not been a leafe touched and this shall bee done equally that they may new apparrell themselues againe without any deformity that neuer agreeing with the old leaues But with much more efficacie if the groūds be watered in this time then for tempering the heate of the season with water to releeue the trees and giue them new force whereby it happens that of their springing againe of leaues neerly compared to their after crop one may make a second nourishment of the Wormes with successe as some fortunately haue attempted the which neuerthelesse is not approued not so much for to be very incertaine such food happening in the greatest heates of the sommer contrary to this creature as for the assured losse of the trees being not able to suffer double disleauing in one season For besides that our Wormes are neuer well disposed fed with leaues growing in a waterish place as I haue related a distinction shall be made of the times of watering the Mulberries to the end not to make them drinke but after they are disleaued not before wherby without doubt of naughtinesse the leaues will yeeld themselues well qualified Vnder such consideration you shall employ the benefit of the water during sommer by that causing so much succour to your trees after their great trauaile as in the drought all sorts of plants finde comfortable the opportune watering a particular obseruation for the South countries not for others which neuer almost water The meanes to gather the leaues the raine falling on ●hem or threatn●ng The raines happening on the course of this food strangely hinder the Wormes as if they chance towards the end of their life then when they are in the greatest force of deuouring for that the wette leaues do breed them dangerous diseases The most common remedie for that is to make prouision of leaues for two or three daies perceiuing the time to be giuent to rayne for it is as well kept good prouided that one laies it in a neate place fresh ayred and for to preserue it from getting of heates oftentimes a day turning it vpside downe And although that the rayne presse not yet what faire weather euer be one ought neuer to remaine without leaues not so much for feare to haue need as for the quality of the victual in so much that it is better being a little kept as twelue or fifteene houres before it bee giuen to the creature cōming directly from the trees If the rayne pressing driues you backe from gathering so many leaues as you neede make recourse to this short way which is to cut the branches of the Mulberries that you destine to bee dissheaded the next yeere the which with all their boughes you shall make to be carried into the house where hanged as raisons vnder the bearers planchers or other couertures in an ayrie place as in barnes and hay-lofts being then almost emptie their leaues will drie well and quickly yea in the one and the other you shall find much more perfection then by any other way whatsoeuer For neither to winnow them with cloathes nor to drie them at the fire are not of such efficacie as is this meanes by the which besides that it winnes much time because there needs nothing but certaine strokes with a hatchet for to take all the leaues of a tree Do not doubt that that will discourage the Mulberries but that on the contrary doth reioyce them so quickly putting them to shoote forth more strongly whereby they winne time for the ensuing yeere such hastie cutting causing their great encrease of branches In the which although it seemeth that the hot season is cōtrary for such work yet so it is that experience manifests daily the nature of the Mulberries yea of many other trees to endure to be cut in the sommer For the which commodity ioyned the sauing in this busines resolue you not to cause to be gathered the leaues of your Mulberries in any other fashion that you shall deliberate to pole the first keeping them for the raynie daies as hath been said or the time remaining faire for the end of the food The same reason hath place for the trees which you are resolued to prune thē disbranching their superfluous boughes when you shall see there is need of leaues the time being raynie or not as one does to dishead them A thing which you shall find to come to good purpose for the great spoyle of leaues that the Wormes make in that time being then their greatest deuouring attending that with moderate labour and much facilitie abundance of victual is furnisht for them The winning of time is adioyned to this busines because that the morning bestowed to this disleauing otherwise lost by reason of the dewes during the which it is forbidden to touch the leaues for that the branches of the Mulberries cut with their boughes being the afternoone before carried into the house are disleaued very earely the morning following the which one bestowes in the worke and that is done in tarrying till that by the Sun or windes the dewes be cleared from off the trees To dishead the Mulberries All the iniurie that one can do to the Mulberries in disleauing them is holpen by the cutting off their branches a remedie seruing almost for all the maladies In the 7. book 27. of husbandrie of the trees as is said of the fruit trees that is to be vnderstood taking from them all vniuersally pouling them or cutting off their heads as one does willowes wherby in small time they renew againe for their branches grow great and strong to serue as afore Wherfore it is at the end of a certain time that one lops the Mulberries which is then when one sees them to consume by too much trauaile The terme is not restrained to certaine yeeres the only facultie of the earth ordaining these things making them to put out and bring forth againe more wood in one place than in another Neuerthelesse one may say that almost euery where from ten to ten or from twelue to twelue yeeres that wil be reasonable to practise for the good of this affaire and by this meanes to loppe the Mulberrie-yard euery yeere of the tenth or twelfth part of his trees In dishedding the Mulberries one shall leaue them long snagges ouer-growing

abundance that comes of the cod which is great in respect of that of Spaine And although they both be hard an assured signe of abundance of matter and by such reason one is to bee preferred before the other the qualitie winning the prize the seede of Spaine shall be held in the first rancke in expecting that by reiterated proofes wee cannot reasonably set it behind any other As for the graine which of long time is naturalized in the prouinces of Languedoc and those neighbouring parts one must make no great account of it neither for the finenes nor for the quantity of silke that it makes for how exquisit soeuer the seede of silke Wormes is transported from far in to such quarters it doth not continue long in goodnesse but degenerates at the end of certaine yeeres the graine which is directlie brought from Spaine the first yeere it doth not so well as the three or foure yeeres following the which being passed it beginneth to decline in his goodnesse In the graine it selfe is also knowne of the changing by the time and in his body and in his colour For comming directly from Spaine it is little of a darke tawny colour and kept waxeth great and growes bright till then that at the terme of certaine yeeres it becomes gray as gray cloth The graine of Silk-wormes of they Seuenes of Languedoc is so qualified the which as well for their proper natures as for being feed with the leaues of blacke Mulberries brings forth cods or bottoms great and soft by consequent smally furnisht with silke of an orenge colour or gold yellow manifesting the grossenesse of the silke from the difference of the fine comming of the Spanish seede the Wormes of which haue been nourished with the leaues of white Mulberries and the most part of bottoms are white incarnadines of the colour of flesh Behold the iudgement that one can make of the knowledge of the goodnesse of the seede of Spaine the best of which will bee the smallest and most darke of colour prouided it be aliue and not child with cold the which is proued on the naile in all seedes of the Silk-wormes accoumpting for good that which breaks in cracking casting forth humor and moisture The littlenesse of the graine of Spaine makes the number of Wormes the which ioyned with the hardnesse of the bottoms cannot chuse but make abundance of silke which for his finenes is of great request Indifferently all seede comming directly from Spaine is not such as you shall desire there being countries in that kingdome better for this some then other and that the more honestly to make it vp there go rather trusty then deceitfull persons Of the which particularities you shall take heede to the end so much the more profitably to ende your feeding as with Euery foure yeeres to change the seede more art you shall haue begun it Wherefore this article is notable that after the imitation of good husbandmen it is necessarie to change the seede euery foure yeeres or from other terme to other according to the reason of experienes And for to doe that with lesse hazard it shall bee fit to haue euery yeere some ounces of new seed of Spaine the which set apart you shall conserue carefully and so long as you shall finde for the proouing his worth to merit By which resolution your feeding will keepe a good course and without confusion maintained alwaies in good order and estate You must not furnish your selfe with old seede for his infertilitie that being of no worth which passes one yeere And though that the keeping of the seede of this creature be difficult because that naturally of it selfe it hatcheth in his season yet so it is that auarice hath so much gottē that by deceitful inuentiō certaine impostures forcing nature conserue the seed a long time without hatching when they cannot sell it in time they keep thē in little bottels of glasse in a coole place as within deepe wells hung downe with cordes neere the water during the great heates so keeping them more then a yeere to the losse of those which by it Some before they put to hatch the graine of Silk-wormes steepe them in the most exquisite wine To imbibe the seed in wine before you put them to hatch they can get Malmsie or other finding by such proofe that the good as the most heauy goes tothe bottome and the naughtie for his lightnesse swimes aboue by reason whereof it is reiected After the good is taken out of the wine it is set to drie in the sunne or before the fire laid vpon very cleane paper couered with white linnen or smooth paper to the end that too much heate hurt it not after it is put to hatch And not only serues such steeping to distinguish the good graine from the naughtie but also to legitimate and fortifie the good to make the Wormes come forth free and strong and for to cause them to hatch almost all at once according to the practise of hens egges which for the same cause are plunged in water a little before that one puts them to hatch A commoditie which one cannot hope for of the light graine but to hatch late or not at all whereby the Wormes continue slow to all their workes to hatch to feede to spin yea subiect to diseases being not able to suffer any accident but almost alwaies languishing not onely dye they by little occasion but infect the best qualified of their next neighbors To which daunger he exposeth himselfe that without distinctions mingles together the good seede with the ill How to hatch the graine To hatch this graine vnder the arme-pits or betweene womens paps is not a profitable thing not so much for feare of their floures as some thinke as for the shaking it to and fro which they cannot do withall carrying the seed about them but that they tumble and mingle it happening at euery minute that the Wormes willing to come foorth of their egges are misturned by one pase or step of them which carry the seed about them ouerwhelming all one vpon another to the losse of the creatures which are stifled in the throng though but with their like Setting this article the farthest off it is most requisite to keepe curiously the seed during all the yeere preparing in good time easily to hatch them in the season Hauing recouered them either of your own or elsewhere you shall lodge them within boxes of wood well ioyned garnished within with paper on the creasts to the end that through them no seed go out nor any dust vermine nor other offensiue thing enter in the box but that the graine may remaine there neately You shall put these boxes within chests or elsewhere amongst cloathes except linnen which because of the moystnes of such matter is hurtfull to these there to remaine vntill the season for to imploy them and to the end that they feele not any molesting dampe nor cold during