A VALUABLE SUGGESTION. 



Gideon B. Smith, Esq. of this city, has suggested a 

 most valuable method of destroy ing the chrysalis in the 

 cocoons of the silk worm. It consists simply in ex 

 posing them to the influence of ignited charcoal. A 

 friend to whom he made the suggestion, has, we learn, 

 made an experiment on his plan, which proved entirely 

 successful, and we have no doubt, oursejf, that, it will 

 prove a most invaluable acquisition to silk culturists, 

 as besides being the most economical method of killing 

 the chrysalis, it will effect its object without hardening 

 the gum on the cocoons, thus rendering them much 

 easier to reel. On a rough calculation, we think fully 

 one fourth of the expense of the process may be thus 

 saved. 



As has been the case in others of his discoveries, we 

 should not be surprised, if some ingenious sdvan of 

 Paris should make the discovery of this method, and 

 that it should be trumpeted forth by the American press 

 as a pearl of exceeding great price, as this is the coun- 

 try where "genius languishes and fancy dies," and 

 fashion has long since decreed that the" old saw of 

 Shakespeare, that "that which we call a rose by any 

 other name would smell as sweet," is a mere fiction 

 of the brain a coinage of the poet. Farmer and Gar- 

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