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which time I have cultivated 

 the plant at Dapooree, my 

 authority may be thought 

 insufficient ; I therefore beg 

 to submit the proposed Dec- 

 can plan for an opinion from 

 Bengal. 



Plantations of Mulberries^ 

 dessy and perhaps also the 

 ba-dessy, are now forming 

 about Poona and Ahmed- 

 nuggur upon the Italian plan. 

 The cuttings having struck, 

 are transplanted and set from 

 eight to twelve feet apart, 

 and trained up as standard 

 trees, the leaves of which it 

 is proposed not to gather for 

 four years. 



8. The following information is desired from 

 Bengal. 



1st. Has such a plan ever been tried in the 

 Bengal provinces; and if it has, with what' 

 success ? 



2d. Will the leaves be improved, or other- 

 wise, as food for the worms in this climate, 

 by being produced from old trees ? 



3d. Provided the trees and the leaves be 

 improved by age, and produce a larger crop 

 as they grow older^ still will it be possible, 



with 



(K.) 



Enclosure 2, 



