Comprehensive Record of the Forest of Affairs

Methods of Plowing and Hoeing | Methods for Cultivating Dill original: "shiluo" (蒔蘿), referring to dill or fennel, often grown for its aromatic seeds. | Methods for Water Conservation | Harvesting the Nine Grain Seeds Newly Added

Auspicious Days for Planting Crops Newly Added | Inauspicious Days for Planting Crops Newly Added | The Optimal Season for Planting | Harvesting Barley Newly Added

Planting Wheat Newly Added | Planting Nonglutinous Rice and Beans Newly Added | Methods for Weeding the Fields Newly Added | Methods for Harvesting Wheat Newly Added

Methods for Storing Wheat Newly Added | Planting Soybeans Newly Added | Methods for Harvesting Beans Newly Added | Planting Azuki Beans Newly Added

Reaping Hemp Seeds Newly Added | Planting Hemp for Weaving Newly Added | Methods for Planting Ramie Newly Added | Planting Cotton Newly Added

Planting Mulberry Seeds Newly Added | Spreading Mulberry Shoots Newly Added | Methods for Pruning Mulberry Trees Newly Added | Methods for Maintaining and Supplementing Mulberry Trees Newly Added

Methods for Layering Mulberry Trees Newly Added A propagation technique where a branch is bent to the ground to take root while still attached to the parent plant. | Methods for Transplanting Mulberry Trees Newly Added | Methods for Grafting Mulberry Trees Newly Added | Methods for Planting Pine Trees Newly Added

Methods for Harvesting Pine Newly Added | Methods for Stripping Mulberry Leaves Newly Added | Methods for Cultivating Mulberry Trees Newly Added | Selecting Cocoons for Breeding Newly Added

Methods for Bathing Silkworm Eggs Newly Added A traditional technique involving washing eggs in water or brine to prevent disease and synchronize hatching. | Preparing the Sericulture Room Newly Added | Methods for Placing Moths for Egg-Laying Newly Added | Methods for Using Leaves to Feed Silkworms Newly Added

Methods for Distributing Silkworms Newly Added | Miscellaneous Taboos in Sericulture | Auspicious Days for Sericulture

Volume Thirteen

Category of Flowers and Fruits

Names and Varieties of Flowers and Fruits

Plowing and Hoeing (the fundamental tasks of soil preparation), Dill (an aromatic herb), Sericulture (the process of raising silkworms for silk), Tree Peony (the "king of flowers" in Chinese culture), Herbaceous Peony, Begonia, Bramble Rose, Mulberry Seeds, Cotton.