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Italian white mulberry plant, referred to in the 

 fourth paragraph of the letter from the Superin- 

 tendent of the Botanic Garden at Dapooree, we 

 beg leave respectfully to recommend that a refe- 

 rence be made to the Bombay Government ac- 

 cordingly. The plant will doubtless be very 

 acceptable at several of the Commercial Resi- 

 dencies also, and we would therefore suggest that 

 an extensive supply of the cuttings be solicited, 

 together with any further portion of the eggs that 

 can be conveniently spared. 



(K.) 



Letter from 

 Board of Trade. 



No. 6. 



Extract Letter from the Resident at Soonamoohy 

 to the Board of Trade, dated the 21th October 

 1832. 



I had not heard of the new importation at Letter from 

 Bombay of the " doppia foglia," or as it would at Soonamooky. 

 seem, the doubk-lea.f Italian white mulberry tree, 

 which Mr. Lush, the Superintendent of the Botanic 

 ' Garden at Bombay, states had been received from 

 St. Helena, with the moth eggs of the purer breed 

 I of two sorts of the Italian silk-w^orm ; and as these 

 t together may possibly prove a great acquisition, 

 I regret that a few of the cuttings of the " doppia 

 foglia" had not been sent with the eggs. With 

 the view, therefore, of obtaining the earliest 



supply 



