■ill
jm w rt o f the first-order,. hearing
Han-choo- ' ~ . . . ■* : ^SS Some of the walls and buildings weredn rninSi anchfWii
growni:.with^mo»^i^^n^iHand- .shpife^ryo It? still- Imd
the .appearance of parrying on a. considerable trade; »and
fherë were not fewer than a Thousand vessels cffdfffelflit
sizes lying at anchor close,to it. A garrison of at:feast
two thousand men turned-out, with colours and music,
and appointed as if going: to be revfewed^rfTilhOiepipjtr y
thereabouts was a plain well cultivated in rice and mulberry
r trees.
Those trees did not appear to differ from the; common
mulberry-trees of Europe. Their branches, were pruned
o f f continually, in order that thelyoung scions might,the
more readily sprout out ; for the leaves of these are found
to be more tender, and delicate.:in their texture, andmore
nutritious forthe silk-worms, than the coarse leaycs pro*
dueed upon older branches., Some af those,Trees ^ r e
said to bear white, and some red or black, fruit, but.of-
ten they bore none. They were cultivated and reared
with the greatest care; and plantedsin rowS about ten
or twelve feet asunder, in beds of a moist, but not inundated,
loamy earth, thrown about a foot, high Above, tbe
surface of the ground. The trees, are: frequently pruned
or dwarfed, in order to make them.prodnce a. constant
succession of young shoots, and tender,leaves, thefetfer of
which, growing upon the black mulberry> are supposed
lobe most succulent- The Chinese do not graft their trees»
Iff
but/somemfthe larger branches ,#ere observed totbeaiAhe journey to
misleto^ That no* iWaste^migikt ;be occasioned by the in-* Sfe
terrb.ediatufurrows,■ 'those spaoes/arelsoWnydth rice. War
ter is "convfeyedlalong, the,furrows through,the grounds;
. -.The inserts are nhrsedihsmall- houses?,eréefced. for that
purpose’ih: the midst ofithosé^plantations, in,order to be
retired from all «noise Jjfcl^the Chinese have an idea that
eveh -thembarking of; a do^iwiUiido some? injury >t® the
worm Si Some, however,* .areirearednin (towns by
habitants, who purchase mulberrydeavesl from the cultivator
of thoseteees; > T h h i^ ^ ^ f ^ ^ 6 é t e 4 :ii|^h^apÉr;
and preserved' i-mittill theik-lm'é of hatching. When thé
usual period of hatching, arrived-,' the-paper Containing
th^tlggs'iis .moistened* with a littfe'wat&rpand shortly a f1
ter wards-. the- young Worms - are> rpnadnoedi; $3?he natural
temperatur-e-of:the climate isTttihGiehtior, that purposed
T h e Chinese - are unaeq-nainted^ with -the nature. aridmsA,
of the thermometer; e^perifenc.&onlyiguidesthefciif Tfee-y*
only apply artificial béats.when • they.-wishto haveofeh^r
brood earlier-than usual. > Tbe/insectseare alwaysr-istiffoT
catedrbefe-pe.the silk is-; reefed off;* fonthis'purpose the
CoccooPs or- silk balk are p faso ^ in a basket, o r in vessels
pierced with , hóles, ahd exposfedlknthe , steam of* boiling*
watefe- infSueh a mannen A» th at th e steam rrtayïdhe'ulate
freely among all theftjoeèopns. After the silk is wound
off; Thp aurólias furnish an! article for the table; a&dpCS1
indeed the white earth grub, and thè larva df the|sphinx