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A45759	The reformed Common-wealth of bees. Presented in severall letters and observations to Sammuel Hartlib Esq. With The reformed Virginian silk-worm. Containing many excellent and choice secrets, experiments, and discoveries for attaining of national and private profits and riches.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662. Reformed Virginian silk-worm.	1655 (1655)	Wing H997; ESTC R207475	78,873	113

there would in time gather a sedimen of muddy matter to the bottome black and slimy out of which would breed at the bottom crawling long ill-favoured Wormes with many feet these Wormes growing bigger and bigger would swim and play together and engender sexually till at last growing more slow they would at length lose almost all motion at last coming to the top of the water would by the legs hang neer the superficies where in few dayes opening the back out of them proceeds a Fly which crawling out of the water is for a day or two tender after able to fly which Fly after a time casting its skin becomes another creeping Insect with out wings and of it proceeds another Fly farre different from the former So in the ground I have often under stones or tufts of grasse found tender Wormes which are naturally in time of their own accord incrusted and so lying a space at length break out of which comes a great Butter-fly which layeth her Eggs on the Orange tender leaves where the dew hatcheth them into Wormes which live on the leaves and if touched send forth long red hornes these at length hanging to the n●●●r part of a bough are incrusted and after a long death turning the same kind of Butterfly which before came out of the Earth Another sort of Wormes ingendred by the 〈…〉 ences in the Earth being incrusted proves a singing 〈…〉 after its season cleaving to a Tree casteth its skin and of a ●ly becometh a creeping sceptile and so liveth a long time till about the season of the year when that Fly cometh again This creeping thing on some tree or other for a time is almost without motion at last bursting insunder in the back out of it comes the like singing Fly as came before out of the first Worm which was bred in the earth Many such like Generations of Wormes in the Earth and of crawling Creatures in the Waters which after turn into Flies and so again into other husky Wormes without motion and from them to other flying Insects I might speak largely were it not besides my proposed intent and scope at present A third very anomalous Generation which I have noted is of a sort of stinging Flies out of rotten Trees these in the Summer Islands I have observed out of the rotting Palmeto and in New England I have seen the same in rotten Poplar and Birch In which a man may at one time see some like to a tender Spermatical milk enclosed in a most tender skin others like to a white Maggot with a little motion others now almost shaped like a Fly others full formed and able to crawle others ready to come forth and in a short time after to fly The Generations of Beetles Dorres c. I have also diligently enquired into and find that under stone hedges where dunghils are usually made of Rubbish they doe chiefly proceed which some sort of Sea shell-fish buried in the Earth doe also produce the same in kind and fashion with the former Yet as I said I never yet could experimentally find any rise of Bees from putrefaction though by me for curiosity sake oft attempted and that with the bloud also with the flesh of Kine such as by accident perishing I could procure part of them for tryall sake this I have kept some openly exposed to the dew others covered with Rubbish as for the Generation of other Insects other while defended with green leaves and straw and so buried in the Earth others covered with earth immediately without any defence from the same in which variety of operations as I had variety of successe at various seasons of the year so never did the event answer the end for which I imployed this industriou●●nquiry If any Gentleman that hath on his own experien●e tried this manner of production of Bees please to impa●t ●is 〈◊〉 ● shall be unto him really thankful and requi●e 〈…〉 perhaps with as acceptable a discovery 〈…〉 my opinion is as it were Natures recreation 〈…〉 the f●acid ferment of putrifying Bodies doth 〈…〉 there is singular and rare variety so they are int●eded 〈◊〉 blessings or scourges to Man The Bee the Silk-wor● the Cochmeel how greatly profitable to Mankind they have been I need not repeat nay most Insects of a shelly or scaly nature being very excellent in medicinal qualities I think then that our sloth is very great in that we neglect the inquiry into this particular I shall a little touch and perhaps not impertinently here In the Summer Islands there is a sort of Spider that is very large and of admirable gay colours yellowish blackish greenish and reddish so intermixed that it makes the Creature very delectable to look on these in great multitudes are there who live abroad in the open fields spinning their webbs from tree to tree of a vast bignesse to catch Flies in on the which they prey their webbs are yellow and most pure Silk of which one Maid for tryall knit a pair of Gloves which prove in wearing no whit inferiour to the best Silk of the Silk-worm Now if these Spiders were so kept as an ingenions man might easily invent they by feeding kept in good plight might be made to spin quantity enough for as much as in few houres they will spin a large web if their old one be taken away else they mind onely their prey But the triall of what may be done in this I leave to others who may have opportunity this I onely insert here to shew that not the Silk-worm onely yeeldeth Silk which is common to this Spider with them and that of the Spider nothing in●eriour to the Silk which the Worm spinneth Again the Cochmeel which is so rich a Commodity cometh out of a fruit called the Indian Fig or prickled Pear which as yet none of our Nation have attempted to make which is the cause that die is so scarce although in all the Summer Islands the Tree bearing that fruit is most plentifull and the generation of that Ins●ct as easie as may be if but attempted with ingenuity The leaf is of a thick slimy nature the fruit full of seeds and ●loudred very wholsome and hath this property that it passeth strait to the urine retaining it● colour and is rejected by urine is red well nigh as it was taken in This same fruit is not of the like tincture with the Insects proceeding from it but give a colour almost like to Brasil●tto wood which in the fire in a few dayes perisheth But the Insect ●ngendred of this fruit is of a most permanent Tincture I for curiosity examined other Vegetables which were of Tincture and found them all to yeeld Insects of the like tincture with that out of which they were procreated In particular and with much Curiosity I examined Shoomake Berries wh●ch have a red out-side like to the furre of V●lvet in small red graines but the inner kernel not answering the out-side in colour I found the

cau●e 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 o● them whieh geuerally is beleeved only to be don with Mulberry leaves the contrary of which is here by some praectised 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 though Strangers to you yet those that have daly cause more and more to honour you as we justly do Sir this your favour is both by my-self and Daughter so much resented as it requires from us very hearty and particular thanks to be tendered to your worth She is a lover of Rarities in these kinds and to try conclusions upon her Silk-worms and no way envious but much rejoyces to heare that any have had that good success with Lettis as you write of and shall her-self againe make a third triall in that kind for she hath 2. yeares last past tryed her-self to have kept some with Lettice leavs so did they thrivd as well as they kept with Mulberrys but stil when the time of spinning came they would not spin but then dyed and this put her out of heart to try further yet I may tell you she perswaded a Gentleman near her to keep some with Lettice 25. daies and then fed them with Mulberrys at last and these did very well and spun as good Bottoms as those wholly kept with Mulberry leaves But now she resolves upon your intimation of the experiment made in Ireland to try a third time and to give you an accompt of her success in Iune next if God permit And now Sir she presents this printed inclosed paper to your worthy judgment if you find not it matter of consideration and reason for her to send it as a second new yeares gift to Virginia hoping that it may do good there to the Planters and informe them of much truth and invite them to the business of Silk which God grant Amen This other paper of Ryming lines for Verses they deserve not the name yet being that what her Brother a young Scholar hath collected out of Letters that were sent her from Virginia and given her she also sends you to further informe you of things done last spring Thus worthy Sir with the due respects of both our kindest salutes wishing you all happiness in this and the better world I rest ever Yours in all love and service IOHN FERRAR Littell Gidding Hunting shire this 28. Novemb. 1653. SIR She makes bold to present you with a sample of Virginia Silk-grass sent her by a freind It 's a rarity and she hopes will delight you who have such a publique Spirit to rejoyce and further a Common good as she hath great hopes this will prove a commodity next to the Silk there as skilfull men and Artists do assure her of it and thousands of poor people will be set a work with it if it prove there to be in quantity Upon the most Noble Virginian natural Silk-Worm her wonderful various plentiful food The infinite speedy great wealth she will produce to her protector in 45. days the time of her feeding with small labour cost or skill learnt in an houres space by any child The singular aptness of that rare Superlative Climate in Breeding them on so many several kinds of Trees in her Woods where they live● Feed and Spin their mighty large strange double-bottoms of Silk To the admiration of this our Old World but to the exaltation and glory of incomparable Virginia in the New WHere Wormes and Food doe naturally abound A Gallant Silken Trade must there be found Virginia excells the World in both Envie nor Malice can gaine say this troth Many a man the causes faine would heare How these rare Worms came first or still come there Insects produced are by heat and moisture Who in strange shapes and formes do oft appeare In Spring our trees the Caterpillers reare Their trees likewise these noble creatures beare And some proceed from eggs that scaped are From their enemies sight which thing is rare They feed not only on the Mulberry Which in our World sole food is held to be For all such precious Worms of that degree But Popler Plum Crab Oake and Apple tree Yea Cherry and tree called Pohickery So on the Shrubs and Bushes feed full many Her Worms are huge whose bottoms dare With Lemmons of the largest size compare And twenty one of ours will sure poize less Then one of theirs for weight and ponderousness Master William Wright of Nansamound Found Bottoms above seven Inches round And though the Silk prove not all out so fine As Persian that 's no let to the designe For since a thousand of our Bottoms make But one pound of fine Silk you 'l ten pounds take From theirs If we at Thirty shillings sell Our pound for twenty they 'l afford theirs well The paines that 's taken is alike in either But the gaines by theirs eight times greater Then we confined are to the Mulberry For food their Worms have great Variety Her dainty coloured flies and large Worms In length and bigness do surpass mens Thumbs Whereas ours short of little fingers come Our flies come out in twenty days and lay Eggs their 's not still three hundred as they say O wondrous thing a Worm to fast so long And then come out a painted Fly so strong Nine mouths full out our eggs unhatch't remaine Nine daies in Spring makes theirs revive againe A Planter I wish they had him named A spoonfull eggs from one fly he gained Which to five hundred at least amounted Loe shortly endless they must be counted In March they first begin to live and feed In Aprill they have done the Silken deed The sweetest pleasantst time in all the yeare You to this Wealth the chanting Birds will cheare And ten moneths time they leave you with great ease To spend it in