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A74940	The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easy means, found out by a young Lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652. For the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-trees in Virginia ... and also to the good hopes that the Indians, seeing and finding that there is neither art, skill, nor pains in the thing, they will readily set upon it, being by the benefits thereof inabled to buy of the English ... all these things that they most desire.		1655 (1655)	Thomason E840_13; ESTC R207475	30,519	44

Sir I Have received your many and severall Letters printed papers and Quaeries and would my occasions have permitted I should ere this have given you that due thanks you deserve and punctually have answered all your judicious and pleasing Quaeries But I was so taken up in sending dayly for Mulberry-leaves as they are now so far scattered from my present Plantation that I could not possibly answer your expectations That onely difficulty made me to make but 400. pound weight of Silk-bottomes which I caused to be wound of 7. or 8. l. of Silke in a day Sir I doe very well approve of your last well printed Paper sent the Colony for making triall of the Naturall Silk-worme but such was my ill happe that I could not this spring meet with any of those Bottoms but shall this next Winter procure of them all I can Sir I am now confident I have conquered all the great feared difficulty of this rich commodity and made its sweet easy and speedy Profitt so evident to all the Virginians and that it doth not at all hinder their too much beloved Tobacco but that they may proceed with both together that now I doubt not nor they but that in a short time here will be great quantities made of Silke you in England will reape much advantage and gaine many waies by it more then most men can pet see and I by Gods blessing the comfort and joy in setting up so noble so beneficiall a staple vendible commodity My people differ very little from the rules set down in your Mr. Williams his Booke and as Esquire Samuell Hartlib hath also directed in his advertizement of Silk-worms unto us only in the hatching of the Worms-Eggs they are more curious of which I shall when I have more time give you a more particular accompt I made 10. l. of seed or Eggs this spring to give away to diverse Planters that are very earnest seeing so great a benefit before their eyes to become also Silk-masters you need not feare it but that this next spring there will be divers tryalls made of the hopefull Naturall Worms that you so highly prize and not without good cause and which is more perhaps they may fall one after another and be re-hatched that we may have a double Silk harvest in one summer as you have formerly hinted to us Pray Sir will you be pleased at this time to excuse my too much brevity in this great business of so much concernment of so much happiness to this Country and attribute it to my great hast and much business upon the ships sudden departure having many more dispatches to make to Freinds But in my next I shall make you double amends I pray present my service to the vertuous Lady Virginia Sir I daily pray for your long life and well-fare and now rest Sir your most humble Servant Edward Diggs A Way Experimented by Mr. Farrar to make the Gummy-hard Naturall Virginia Bottoms which hetherto by no art could be be prepared to unwind by reason of the Gummy hardness to unwinde with ease to the great advantage of the Planters of the Silk-trade in Virginia YOu must take Sope-boylers lye or liquor which is very sharp and strong and set that in a vessel over the fire till it be warme then put in as many of your hard gummy Bottoms as you please and let them rest in that liquor till it be scalding-scalding-hot and so remain half a quarter of an houre more or less till they be so dissolved that you may take out one and find it fit to unwind which you must thus doe First put the Bottoms into scalding clean water and having layen a while therein then take them out and proceed to unwind them as the custome is In case Sope-boylers lye or liquor be not to be had you may make a strong liquor of the Ashes of any Wood with boyling water the stronger the better and this may and will also perform the work And this is just as you make a lye to buck clothes withal Only note it must be very strong made An Extract out of a very Ingenious Gentlemans Letter from Dublin Concerning the Reformed Virginian Silk-worm I Thank you for your Virginian Paper Me thinkes the Experiment is most Natural to my apprehensions that the Worms should feed and thrive best upon the leaves growing on the Trees rather then in the Houses and that they like other Caterpillers of whom these are a sort did at first breed so and that Houses were rather an Invention for expediency But their Proposition about Money to be carried to Virginia I utterly dislike even somuch as if it were possible I would banish Money from Ireland An Animadversion upon the Letter from Dublin I like not the Gentlemans Reason why he likes the Proposition concerning feeding o● Silk-worms upon the Trees For almost all Plants even the most rare now in use were Originally namely since the deluge wild and past muster amongst Weeds are improved to such a degree of excellency to the eye nose or palat by industry and home-helps and contrivances So Iohn Tradeskin by Lambeth by the advantage of putting his Trees and other Plants into a warm house in winter or a stow nurses up those things faire and fragrant which would without that help either dye or be dwarft This is the reason why tame Pigeons or Conies are larger and breed better and oftner then wild Yet I conclude not a gainst the thing it self for questionles that the leaves have more heart fresh and greene then halfe withered if the cause of their withering were known or considered But I can say little to this as having no experience A new observation concerning the feeding of Silk-worms with Lettice imparted from Dublin I Have only to present you with some observations I made concerning the feeding of Silk-worms meeting here accidentally with a kinswoman of mine that keepes great store of them whi●h generally is beleeved only to be don with Mulberry leaves the contrary of which is here by some pra●ctised viz. to feede them with Lettice which the worms eat very readily grow as those big as that are fed with Mulberry leaves spin as much Silk They wil also eate the hearb called Dantedelyon but whether that will so well agree with them as Lettice I have not tried but with Lettice they will thrive very well eating nothing else all the yeare More Observations concerning the feeding of Silk-worms with Lettice SIR MY good Cosen Mr. W. sent me the letter you wrote to him and the note sent you out of Ireland that intimated the happy success the Gentlewoman had then in keeping Silk-worms not only on the Mulberry-tree-leaves but with Lettice leaves the thing you much desired that my Daughter should have made known unto her Truly Sir your singular humanity and goodness in all things more and more extends it selfe for the publique benefit of all and I see to the particular satisfaction of your Freinds

as is incredible so that she will never be defective unto you they therefore counsell that you graft your Mulberries with all care and speed upon these severall trees upon which they will exceedingly thrive viz. the Popler the Elme the Chesnut Beech Quince Medler Fig Peare Apple and Cornell-trees And also upon any other trees of which upon a trial you find the Worm will taste or eat their leaves Likewise that you set of your Mulberry-slips as big as your thumb about two foot long and put them into good wel-digg'd ground in September setting them a foot in the ground bruising the ends of them and watering them the next Summer well if need be in the same manner as in Kent they set the Codling-slips That you also cause the Indians to bring unto your habitations all the young Mulberry-trees that are within an hundred miles of your Colony But let me acquaint you that they admire what some Gentlemen Planters of credit tell them that your brave Wormes do not onely live feed and spin upon the Mulberry-trees in the Woods but do the same upon the Poplar-trees Plum-trees and Apple-trees such an incouragement to the Silk-trade the World say they never yet heard of before which must needs lift you up to a most speedy and incomparable height of wealth and riches in a moment of time And by your gentle patience and generosity give me leave to propound unto you the earnest request the Lady hath to all of you that you please to inform her being also the desire of many others how it comes to pass that your Wormes get to your severall trees not only to the Mulberry but to others For in no other Countreys the Silk-worme-flie doth use her wings to flie with so that yours must either do it and so at time of yeer couple and flie to sundry trees and there lay their eggs which remain till Spring again or that your trees do naturally ingender and produce the Wormes as it is conceived the original of them so hapned at first but which way soever it be it 's rare and remarkable and proves Virginia to be one of the most superlative Countreys in all the Vniverse for the Silk-trade and none comparable unto the excellency of its naturall temper for Silk Then that you also inform her all you can of the nature actions qualities and dispositions in all kindes of this most wonderfull Creature every way so admirable what by any English or Savage hath bin any way observed in her when her eggs first hatch then how long time she is feeding before she spins upon what part of the trees she fastens her Bottom How long she continues in her Bottom before she comes out a Fly then when they couple where they lay their eggs upon what part of the trees How long they live after that time For these in the old World never eat after they once begin to spin how large in bigness and compass are commonly their bottoms if all of one colour or divers In what part of the Countrey are most of them seen and found what do the Savages call them or know any use of them what birds are they that most devoure them for did they not they would swarm all the Land over in a very few yeers if any thing besides birds be hurtfull to them Their greatness and doubleness of their Bottoms are wonderful none ever known to be so which argues the strength and richness of this noble Worm her vigour and hardnes exceeds that can endure all wethers and seasons both alive and in her eggs A great incouragement to you all that she is not a nice curious kinde of Silkworme but stout and robustous that will require little care or attendance of small cost unto you But her food and protection is all she requires and pays you ten thousand-fold for what you bestow on her That you please to send of her Bottoms to satisfie all men who are like the Queen of Sheba much better trust their eyes than eares some of their eggs likewise upon that which they lay them and the Fly though dead which will many a yeer retain her perfect form in a box do not the wormes hatch and spin twice or thrice in a Summer Let me add one Petition more and I have done viz. That some of your precious Silk-grass may be sent the Lady who is confident upon the triall she will make of it she will give you so pleasing an account and so profitable unto you in making known unto you what an unknown wealth you have she prays you and all is for your own gain to bore and cut all your trees a most easie thing and thereby you shall discover presently what rich Gums what Balsoms what Oils and precious healthful Liquours they will yield you for profit necessity For all men know that many kindes of trees do yield most pleasant and healthsome Wines as I may call them for man to drink so also you will finde out all sorts of Dies and Colours instantly done cut and bruise all kindes of your Woods Barks and Leaves of Trees Roots Berries Nuts Fruits Plants Weeds and but boil them in a Skillet and then put in a little piece of white Woollen or Linnen cloth with some Allom and you shall instantly finde and see what rich Colours they will make What is Indico but a Weed so Woad and Madder What is Brasil Fustick Logwood and many more kinde of Dies but Woods what Coucheneal the rich Scarlet die but a Fly or the excrements of the Indian Fig-tree what is the new-found rich dying stuff of 25. l. a Tun but of a tree that is brought from the Island of Liberty neer Cape Florida where Captain Sailes plants And shall Virginia not yield a drop of good Liquour or Colour It cannot be if but a triall thus easie were made By burning of all kinde of Woods and Gums you 'le soon finde by your nose what sweet Perfumes they yield And by the ponderousness or weight of earths you may know if Minerals or not Let it be known also if you have not Waters of more than ordinary qualities for taste colours smell weight hotness or coldness there is much depends upon them And you shall know if they proceed out of any Minerals by taking a glass full and putting into it a Gall beaten to powder which will turn the water into a reddish colour and send samples of all kinde of strange earths and of all other kinde of things without fail And lastly if it be not too much presumption to beg the favour to receive that honour from you which she no wayes deserves nor can hope to requite To inform her what be the things the wayes the means to advance Virginia's Prosperity if they may be procured and effected If any errour be committed in telling you all this there is hope your pardon may be obtained seeing your onely good and benefit hath caused all this that hath been said