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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

planting and the gathering of it 9 That of grafting your Crab-trees with Apples and Pears for Sider and Perry you knowing that a man in one day will graft an 100 stocks and they will grow night and day while you eat sleep and play and last 100 years to your great gain and profit I may not further inlarge my self for the present these are but tastes and hints for your better wits to worke on so with a thousand good wishes I bid you adiew Floreat VIRGINIA The fashion of the Botome The Silke Bottome of the naturall Worm in Virginia found there in the Woods is ten Inches about and six Inches in length to admiration whereas ours in Europe have their Sleave and loose Silke on the outside and then in a more closer covering they intombe themselves These rare Worms before they inclose themselves up fill with Silke the great emptinesse and afterwards inclose themselves in the middle of it so they have a double Bottom The loose Sleave Silk is all on the outside of this compass for if that were reckoned in the compasse of the Bottom would far exceed this proportion But this is sufficient to be the Wonder of the whole World to the Glory of the Creatour and Exaltation of VIRGINIA A Loving Advertisement to all the Ingenious Gentlemen-Planters in Virginia now upon the Designe of Silk By V. F. Gentlemen SVch hath bin the singular favour of Providence to you and the Lady that since the publishing of this Book it hath so happily lighted into the hands of divers worthy persons being not only Gentlemen-Travellers of credit Merchants of reputation but likewise wonderfully taken with the love of Virginia and no less zealously affected to the advancement of the Silk-trade in that Land which they judge not of their experience and knowledge of what they have and observed in the Easterly parts of the World where abundance of Silk is made that no part of the World is more proper for Silk then Al-sufficient Virginia In regard of the excellency of the temper of the Climate which naturally produceth not onely Mulberries for food but the Silk-worme it selfe in that wonderful greatness of the wilde Silk-bottom which as they say The whole Vniverse affords not nor brings forth the like to their own small admiration And that there is no greater quantities of them found or seen they conclude it is in regard of the birds who are their natural enemies devoure most of them And these Gentlemen are confident that you did not know practise those ways and meanes for the feeding and preservation of them as in some far remote Regions is practised by those Nations that are expert Masters of Silk-wormes Virginia would instantly abound with great store of Silk and surpass all those Countreyes in that rich commodity and you all become with great speed and small cost or l●…tle labour one of the happiest wealthiest people that the World affords And to the intent that such a blessing may not be longer wanting to you they ha●e out of their superlative benigne affections and publike spirit imparted to the Lady these ensuing Relations with their earnest desires and advises that you all in Virginia may out of hand be made partakers of them And then knowing them you may no longer live in gross darknes and ignorance of so great a treasure that you are possessors of and may now have and enjoy the full use and benefit of which hitherunto hath most straingely been hidden from the eyes of body and mind They conceiving that the chief cause thereof hath been the pernicious blinding smoak of Tobacco that thus hath dimmed and obscured your better intellectuals but when you begin to put these wayes means in practice they say you will blesse your selves as they do that you have not in this long time discovered the infinite wealth and happiness that will arise unto you out of Silk But not longer to detain from you this most precious eye-salve for the speedy curing of your infirmity and making you all rich which is your main aime in that new world Hearken well to these Informations which the Lady earnestly desires may thus be with all speed made known to you all THe one Traveller declared That he passed a Countrey where he saw those people had their Silk-worms feeding on their Mulberry-trees in the fields there they live spun their Bottoms on the trees And to protect this noble profitable creature to defend it from the birds they used a most slight simple plain invention speedily effected of no cost or labour to them which was certain great sheets of Reeds or Canes that they hung over and about their trees tied to certain poles that incompassed them And in this easie manner they obtained great abundant quantities of silk to their wonderful inriching The sheets of Reeds were joyned together by a need●e and thred running through each Reed at several equal distances and so drew them close and firm together This for you to imitate is in every respect to your wonderfull happiness Another of these Travellers saith That he passed a Countrey where the inhabitants did make large Tents or Boothes all of Reeds and Canes and in them placed shelves and tables made likewise of Reeds on which they fed their Worms strewing leaves on them These tents they set up round about their Mulberry-Groves and with much celerity and no cost A third Gentleman and Merchant that lived long in the farthest parts of Turkey affirmeth That there the inhabitants begin every Spring March to feed their Worms and continue it till October six moneths time their Worms hatching re-hatching one generation or brood succeeding the other so that they have three harvests of silk-bottoms in that space of time every five or six weeks one they feed their Worms in great long Barns made of Reeds or Canes the walls and roofs of them and shelves as aforesaid and the Wormes when they have done feeding spin their bottoms upon the reedy walls and roofs and that they have two crops of leaves from their trees for those trees that have their leaves pull'd off in March April and May do re-leave again and have new and fresh leaves in June July and August wherewith they feed their latter generation or brood of Wormes very profitably And in confirmation of this you shall know the same hath been found true in England that the Mulberry-tree will leave twice in a Summer the Lady had the experience of it and therefore much more will it do with you which will be a most singular advantage to you I must not omit to add what these Gentlemen farther advise that you can never sufficiently augment the store of food for this Noble Creature for store of food is the main foundation upon whose speeding the Silk-trade is to be erected for if that be not wanting no obstruction can be in it For the glorious Worm is so infinite in multiplication with that celerity

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-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