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The reformed Virginian silk-worm, or, A rare and new discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, anno 1652. For the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia: who after fourty dayes time, present their most rich golden-coloured silken fleece, to the instant wonderful enriching of all the planters there, requiring from them neither cost, labour, or hindrance in any of their other emploments [sic] whatsoever. And also to the good hopes, that the Indians, seeing and finding that there is neither art, skill, or pains in the thing: they will readily set upon it, being by the benefit thereof inabled to buy of the English (in way of truck for their silk-bottoms) all those things that they most desire (1655)

Hartlib, Samuel, -1662 · London : printed by John Streater, for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls · leaf 9

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Silkworms -- Virginia · Mulberry -- Virginia · Sericulture -- Virginia · Silkworms · Silkworms -- Poetry · Mulberry · Sericulture · Imprint 1655

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