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or twenty-five rubbii of leaves; fome to thirty-five rabbit. The trees are grafted in thenurfery, and planted out at four years, at the beginning of April; price, 20 f to choofeout of many ; and in four years after begin to gather. When planted in watered mea-dows, the gathering damages the hay almoft to the value of the leaves, yet many are foplanted ; and many peafants think they lofe in corn by the fhade of the trees, as muchas they get by them. From the 2 2d to the 26th of April is the feafon for hatching ;never by fire; nor have they any method of retarding the hatching, in cafe of a wantof leaves. Endive, lettuce, and elm leaves, have been often tried as a fuccedaneum,but always killed the worms; fuch things mull never be depended on. The pea-fants generally fell the cocoons, not one in a hundred fpinning. A chamber of twentyfeet by twelve feet is ntceffary for three ounces of grain; and fix tables, one trebuccolong and two-thirds wide.
Novara. — Paffed this place towards Milan, which is a great trail of mulberries forf veral miles.
Milanese. — Buffalora to Manienta. —Many mulberry hedges, but they are bad andragged ; fome new planted in the quincunx pofition. For feveral miles the country isall planted in rows of vines, at twelve, fixteen, and twenty feet, and fruit trees amongthem, for their fupport; among which are many mulberries, and the vines running upthem This mult be a molt profitable hufbandry indeed, to have filk and wine notonly from the fame ground, but in a manner from the fame tree. Between the rowsthe ground is cultivated ; millet, maiz (cut), holcusforgum , the great millet, lupines,with dung amongll them, to be ploughed in for wheat, with young maiz, fown thick,as if for fodder.
Citricbo. —A beautiful mulberry hedge, and in good order; fix to eight inches fromplant to plant, and eropt at fixteen or eighteen from the ground. It is clear thereforethat the plant will do, with care, for a good hedge. Towards Milan, mulberries de-cline, oax and other pollards being found in their Head.
Mozzata. —The culture of mulberries and making filk, being here much attended to,were principal objects in my inquiries. The fruit is well walked, the end of June, tomake the feed fink ; it is then fown in rows, in a bed of earth well manured, and finelylaboured, in the rich nurferies near Milan ; covered very lightly, and thefurface lightlyflattened ; ft raw is fpread to defend it from the fun, and much water given. Whenthe young plants appear, they are weeded by hand. The fecond year, they grow' totwo or three feet high, and hoed and thinned. The third year, they are cut to theground above the buds that are to pufh, and tranfplanted from thofe nurferies, in thevicinity of the city, to others that are fcattered all over the country, in ground well duga id manured, and at two feet fquare; here they are kept clean by hoeing. The fifthyear, in the fpring, they are cut again to the ground ; they then (hoot very powerfully,and attention muft be given, to keep but one good fhoot, and the ground is dug orhoed deeper ihan common, and alfo dunged. The fixth year, thofe that are highenough are grafted, and the reft the year following. Thofe that took the fixth year,ought to reft in the nurfery three years, including the year of grafting, that is, thefeventh and eighth year. They do not like to plant large trees, and have a proverb,
Se vuoi far torto al tno vicino,
Pianta il moro groffo e il lico piccolino.
As to plnnt fmall fig trees is as bad as large mulberries.
The holes are made in winter for receiving them where they are to remain; thefeare nine feet fquare and two feet deep, and have at the bottom a bed of broom, bark
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