Summary of the Principal Chinese Treatises Upon the Culture of the Mulberry and the Rearing of Silk Worms
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An 1838 Washington edition of Stanislas Julien's translation of Chinese agricultural treatises on growing mulberry trees and raising silkworms, translated from the French and published by Peter Force. The first part covers mulberry species, seed selection, planting, pruning, layering and grafting. The second covers the silkworm room and oven, egg bathing and hatching, feeding, moulting, cocoon rooms, cocoon selection and reeling, and silkworm diseases. It ends with a supplement and a reprinted memoir by Père d'Incarville on wild silk worms, plus engraved plates of rearing equipment.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1838
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 203
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