A rare and new discovery of a speedy way and easie means, found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proofe thereof in May, anno 1652, for the feeding of silk-worms in the woods, on the mulberry-tree-leaves in Virginia ...
Contributors: Stallenge, William.
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 14263
Publisher: Printed for Richard Wodenothe
Published: 1652
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Ferrar, Virginia; Silkworms -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Mulberry -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Sericulture -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800
Notes: "To the reader" signed: Samuel Hartlib

"Instructions for the increase and planting of mulberry-trees" p. [5-9], by William Stallenge, first appeared in 1609 with title: Instructions for the increasing of mulberie trees and the breeding of silke-wormes

Includes several poems, one by Du Bartas on the silkworm, and others addressed to Virginia Ferrar, discoverer of the "speedy way, and easie means ... for the feeding of silk-worms."

Sabin 39699

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1994. 1 microfiche : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 39699)

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