1'<M -LISII STRAW PLAT. [No. 



now began lobe : imported, and iobe platted in thiscoun- 

 try. So tbat we bad hands to plat as well as the 

 Italians. All that we wanted Avas the .sv//.. 



.-// that thi 1 Italians had : ami it is truly wonder- 

 ful that these importations from Leghorn should have 

 gone on increasiiu t year, and our dom< 



manufacture dwindling away at a like pace, without 

 tin-re having been any inquiry relative to the \ 

 in wliicli the Italians n- t ,t (/,, Strange, that 



we should have imporU ! /w from Italy, with- 



out inquiring whether similar straw could not be got 

 in England! There really seems to have been an 

 opinion, that Knirland could no more produce this 



f than it could produce the sugar-cane. 

 Ml:*. Things were in th when in l v 



Miss WOODHOUSE, a farmer's daughter in CONNFX 



'raw-bonnet of her own making to the 

 / .1//.V in London. This bonnet, superior in 

 iie>s and beauty to anything of the kind that had 

 in Leghorn, th. ;ated taconsist of a 



of irrass of which she sent along with the bonnet 

 some of the .sv/7/.v. The question was, then, would 

 the-e precious seeds grow and produce plants in per- 

 sluml? A large quantity of the seed 

 "had not been sent : and it w; v a mem- 



ber of the Society, thought . . with as 



little delay as possible, a considerable quantity of the 

 see-d. 



Jl-1. It was in th ! the affair that my attention 



called to it. The member just alluded "to applied 



tome to iret the seed from America. I was of opinion 



that there could be no sort of grass in Connecticut 



that would not. and that did vol. grow and flourish in 



rland. .My son JAMKS. who was then at .\ 



\. had instructions from me, in June 1821, logo 



iicisK. and to send me home an account 



of the matter. In September, the same \ear. 1 heard 



from him, who sent me an account of the cut ting and 



bleaching, and ;\\>o a specimen of the plat and grass 



of Connecticut. Miss WooDHorsr. had told the 



Society of Arts, that the grass used was the Poa 



