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with its enclosures from the Secretary to the (K.) 

 Bombay Government of the 14th February, trans- ^u^ZlntTt 

 mitting copy of a letter of the 31st January to Soonamooky. 

 his address from Dr. Lush, Superintendent of the 

 Honourable Company's Botanic Gardens at Poena, 

 communicating queries upon which I am desired 

 to give my opinion, and to afford other infor- 

 mation on the subject of the cultivation of the 

 mulberry-plant as well as rearing of the silk- 

 worm. 



Adverting to my address to you of the 27th 

 October last, the subject of which I was glad to 

 find proved acceptable to Dr. Lush, I should 

 earlier have submitted the subjoined letters, which 

 have passed direct between myself and that gen- 

 tleman,* had I not wished to render the cor- 

 respondence more complete, when enabled to do 

 so by the receipt of Dr. Lush's rejoinder, but 

 for which there has not yet been time, and your 

 letter now under reply does not admit of further 

 delay. 



The Board will perceive that Dr. Lush having 

 favoured me with cuttings and specimens of the 

 several genus of mulberry leaves growing at 

 Poena, I need not avail myself of their expressed 

 obliging intention of eventually sending a part of 



those 



* Dr. Lush to Mr Shakespear, 29th and 30th January ; Mr. 

 Shakespear in reply, 25th February. 



