Virginia's discovery of silke-vvorms, with their benefit and the implanting of mulberry trees : also the dressing and keeping of vines, for the rich trade of making wines there : together with the making of the saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of timber and clapbord, to build with-all, and its conversion to other as profitable uses.

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Author:	Williams, Edward, fl. 1650.
Title:	Virginia's discovery of silke-vvorms, with their benefit and the implanting of mulberry trees : also the dressing and keeping of vines, for the rich trade of making wines there : together with the making of the saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of timber and clapbord, to build with-all, and its conversion to other as profitable uses.
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Subject terms:	Silkworms -- Early works to 1800. Viticulture. Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800. Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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To all the VIRGINIA Merchants, Adventurers, and Planters.

The Discovery of Silke-wormes; with their benefit, and implanting of Mulberry trees.

The best soyle and order for planting the Mulberry.

The order for collection of the Leaves.

The lodging of the Silke Wormes.

The election and use of the seed of the Silke-Worme.

The vivification of the Seed.

The causes of extraordinary maladies in Wormes, and their cre.

The Propagation of the Silke-Worme seed.

To distinguish the sexes.

To windff the Silke frm the Cod, or Bttome.

Treatise of the Vine.

What soyle is most proper for the Vine.

To make election of Plants.

The manner, and way to lan Vines.

The manner of dressing the Vine.

Of the Dseases of Vines, and their Remedy.

The Bleeding of the Vine.

The scattering Vine.

The Vine too full of branches, or luxurant.

The withering Vine.

The rotting of Grapes upon the Vine.

The biting of the Cow or Oxe.

Against Caterpillars.

To prevent Pismires.

The manner of the Vintage.

To know if there be any water in the Wine.

To seperate Wine from Water.

The way to correct ver much waterishnesse in Wine.

To make Wine of an acceptable odour.

To make Cute.

To cause troubled Wines to settle.

To know whether the Wine will keepe long.

To keepe Wine at all times.

To make that Wine shl not Flowre.

To prepare Physicall Wines.

To make Wines of Wormewood.

To make Wine of Horehound.

To make Wine of Betony.

To make the Wine of Hysop.

To remedy Wines inclining to corrupt; and first of Wine beginning to soure:

At what time, and by what accidents Wine is most apt to cor∣rupt, with its remedy.

To helpe Wine that beginnes to wast and die.

To restore Wine growne musty, unto his former purity.

Of the Olive.

Accidents befalling Oyle with their Remedies: and first to recver frozen Oyle.

To keepe Oyle from becommimg ranke.

To purifie troubled Oyle.

To recover Oyle corrupted in the Sent.

Oyle of Nutmegs.

Of the Almond tree.

Of the Fig tree.

Of the Pomeganate tree.

Of the Quince tree.

How to dry Grapes, that they may bee kept.

How to drie igges.

How to dry Peaches ad Abricots of all sorts.

The fittest seasons for sowing of seeds.

An Explication of the Saw-mill, an Engine, wherewith force of a wheele in the water, to cut Timber with great speed.