A 1776 Philadelphia pamphlet, signed Cresinus, arguing against colonial American efforts to take up silk and wine production. The author contends that grain, wool, hemp and flax are the 'better commodities' and the proper staples of commerce, and that luxury crops would leave the colonies dependent on Britain for bread, citing France, Italy, Spain, Maryland tobacco planters and the failed Carolina and Georgia silk ventures. It is a political-economic essay rather than a technical work, with a closing advertisement noting that only a dozen copies were printed.