f/O -tn siU worms. Oct. 5,- 



apart of their sustenance from the mineral king' 

 dom. 



Experiments, however, are here wanting to deve- 

 lope facts so fully as to remove all kind of doubt 00 

 this subject. 



ON SILK WORMS. 



LETTER FROM MISS HENRIETTA RHODES. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



Your mind seems to pofsefs such a degree of libe- 

 rality, as well as energy, that I make little doubt 

 but that you have ascribed my silence to its right 

 tause, and will readily extend that pardon to me, 

 which I must believe I deserved before I dared so- 

 licit it. To write a letter to you, without having 

 any thing material to cemmunicate, weuld 'have?been 

 an infringement upon that time, which is so valu- 

 able to yourself and others ; I, therefore, determined 

 to wait until I received an account of the eventual 

 succefs of a further experiment, which I had intreat- 

 ed a friend to make -upon the lettuce, as food for the 

 silk worm. As for myself, the removal to my new 

 habitation occupied so much of my time and atten- 

 tion, that I was obliged to abandon the design of 

 rearing any this summer. The friend I speak of is 

 inifs Croft of York, who very obligingly kept a few 

 silk worms entirely upon lettuce leaves. She af?ured 

 me they were equally> as strong and healthy as any 

 ilie had seen ; and that, when, by way of trial, fhe 

 ■has dropped a mulberry leaf among the lettuces, they 



