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NOTICES OF IMPROVEMENTS NOW GOING ON IN INDIA. 

 Continued from p. 75. 



The following communications respect ehlefly the bread 

 fruit tree. 



Tr^m Dr James Anderson to Richard Molesworth, esq: 



Dear. Sir., 

 I AM favoured with your letter of the 2d of August last, 

 and am sorry you have been disappointed in the teak and 

 cinnamon trees which I sent you last year. 



An alligator pear tree, however, having been sent me 

 by colonel Kydd of Bengal, in a box of a new constructi- 

 on, in which I suffered it to remain three months in the 

 (hade before it v;as set out in the open ground, where it 

 still continues healthy j I have directed two such boxes to 

 be made, in which two teak and two cinnamon trees Ihall 

 be planted ; and as captain Gerrard has obligingly promised 

 to take particular care of them, 1 have no doubt you will re- 

 ceive them both safe on the arrival of the Deptford. 



If they are sent to the West Indies, they will soon yield 

 seeds j my cinnamon and bread fruit tree, are already in 

 flower, and the teak gives ripe seeds in eight or ten 

 years. 



You will see by my correspondence last year, that we 

 have constructed reels here, which answer very well, as 

 the fkaines made on them are afterwards placed by the 

 silk weaver on a reel made of five slender pieces of bam- 

 boo, with a thread stretched from the eight extremities of 

 four of the pieces, in the manner of the braces of a drum, 

 and serve as the dies of this simple reel ; the fifth piece 

 of bamboo being the pivot or center. 



From this reel he winds the silk on bobbins with the 

 utmost facility, and no silk can pofsibly work more 

 freely j but when your model arrives, I (hall pay every at- 

 tention in my power to adopt the whole or any part of 

 its construction, to the improvement of this businefs, as it 



