For lack of silkworms the monastery mulberry-trees had several seasons of growth, and the shoots were serviceable for our work.
There was a general complaint that the silkwormshad deteriorated, and that the mulberry-trees had suffered from a disease which had killed great numbers.
Our dream of heaven is the dream of obtaining them free of cost in pain; and the condition of those silkworms is the realization, in a small way, of our imagined Paradise.
Those silkworms have all that they wish for,--even considerably more.
The climate proved too cold or damp for the rearing of silkworms with advantage.
The rearing of silkworms was of great importance in Modena, and yielded a considerable revenue to the State.
Sprigs of heather arranged so that Silkwormsmay mount into them.
Mulberry trees were planted at Fontainebleau, in the royal park of Tournelles, and even in the Tuileries, where an Italian lady, named Julle, reared silkworms for Henry IV.
If we observe somesilkworms when the temperature is favourable, we shall find that there are four moults, and consequently five ages.
There were moments when she felt so young and inexperienced that she almost wished herself back with the silkworms at Stogdon House, and not embarked upon this bewildering intrigue.
Indeed, when she came down at Christmas she usually spent a great part of her time in private conferences with Henry and with Cassandra, the youngest girl, to whom the silkworms belonged.
Cassandra, surrounded by innumerable silkworms in her bedroom.
The eggs for the production of silkworms are chiefly imported by Levantines from Asia Minor (Gimlek and Brussa), and also in small quantities from France.
Silkworms had not been profitable for a year or two, and he was almost in low spirits when he talked of them.
The Bishop of Nismes has lately issued a pastoral letter, commanding prayers to be offered up for the cessation of the malady affecting the silkworms in his own and the surrounding dioceses.
Footnote 95: Pausanias says that silkwormsare apt to die of indigestion, the cocoons lying heavy on the stomach.
The course of discovery as regards the epidemic is this: In 1849 Guérin Méneville noticed in the blood of silkworms vibratory corpuscles, which he supposed from their motions to be endowed with independent life.
And now, as we learned something about silkworms and their cocoons in our talks about insects[15], there is little more to be said of the mulberry tree which any but learned people would care to know.
The experiment of feeding silkworms upon the leaves has been tried, but it was not very successful.
The tree is more beautiful than useful, for the silkworms do not thrive well on the leaves and the wood is neither strong nor durable.
Several years ago Mrs. Whitby took great pains in breeding silkworms on a large scale, and she informed me that some of her caterpillars had dark eyebrows.
Pisciculture has been for centuries successfully pursued by the Bohemian peasants, and the attempts recently made for the rearing of silkworms have met with fair success.
Silkworms have been bred with success in some departments, and the cochineal insect is found wherever the conditions are favourable for the cactus.
Then came a revolution in China, and for the next six hundred years Rome and Greece had the principal supply of silkworms and the monopoly of the industry.
The people who first raised silkworms had to try and fail many, many times before they succeeded.
Now that their father and Uncle Jacques had gone to the war most of the care of the silkworms would fall to them.
They knew well what was to happen next for they had often seen their father arrange the little arches of brush on which the silkworms were to climb and spin their cocoons.
Haven't you seen your father's silkworms hundreds of times?
You see," continued Pierre, still formulating his ideas, "the constant care of a large crop of silkworms is too hard for my mother and Marie.
I don't believe you are any more glad to rest than your silkworms are!
In the meantime the silkworms continued to thrive.
So I am learning all I can about the classifying and reeling of cocoons; and I have also raised a few silkworms so as to be familiar with the very beginnings of the industry.
And yet when the young silk-growers compared the present size of their silkworms with that of the early hatched caterpillars the transformation seemed nothing short of a miracle.
The silkworms poised themselves on the lower extremity of their bodies and using their front legs to guide the thread, sent it hither and thither from their mouths in wavy, irregular motion until the little egg-shaped ball was finished.
Father once told me he had known of a lot of silkworms that stopped eating and died because a sudden noise frightened them," observed Pierre.
I do hope our silkworms won't get frightened and die, or else have something make them stop spinning.
You see your silkworms are only about a quarter of an inch long at first, and as they increase in size to about three inches their skin is not elastic enough to accommodate their rapid growth.
An attempt to cultivate olive trees and breed silkworms proved as great a failure in Georgia as in Carolina; but rice soon became one of the staples of the colony, and the first fine cotton was raised there from seed brought from India.
At first, the French Huguenots tried to raise silkworms in their new colony; but they soon had to give up this attempt, because the climate proved too damp.
When a colony of silkworms had been attacked it was useless to try to do anything with them.
In 1864, only the races of silkworms in China and Japan were surely not infected.
The products obtained from the silkworms on the estate had, for years, not sufficed to pay for the fresh supplies of eggs obtained from a distance.
Her Majesty the Queen was always gracious to me, and sent me again a number of silkworms that I might amuse myself with feeding them for her, and I was to return what they spun.
At this time her Majesty the Queen sent me some silkwormsto beguile the time.
The place where silkworms are bred, should persons wish to pursue their rearing upon a larger scale, must be free from noisome smells, cattle, and all noises.
The rearing and management of silkworms is an innocent and agreeable pastime both to boys and girls, and it is very interesting in many points of view.
American silkworms taken to the Sandwich Islands produced moths at very irregular periods; and the moths thus raised yielded eggs which were even worse in this respect.
A fly harmful tosilkworms winters in the soil, but it cannot find a resting-place in concrete.
Wyckoff on Silk Manufacture, Tenth Census, says that experimental silkworms had been taken to Mexico by the Spaniards in 1531, without any permanent results.
The raising of silkworms was begun in Virginia in 1613, and before the colony was nine years old it was able to send to England silk that doubtless had cost more than a hundred times its market value.
French vine-dressers were sent over a little later and were forbidden to plant tobacco, but were compelled to employ themselves about vines, with the care of silkworms for variety.
The hills around Ch'i-chiang were thickly clad with scrub-oak, on the leaves of which silkworms had been placed to feed.
My little girl in the country sent home some silkworms to her sister in a light paper-box.
After they have eaten up the old grass and the provender about the doors, they get vine leaves, and, after the silkworms have begun to spin, mulberry leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silkworms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
