RAW- SILK. 



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make a further experiment when the worms put (K.) 

 out of the stock in hand, a part of which may ''"Resident" 

 eventually be reared on the leaves of the vounjr atSoonamooky, 



» 26 Aug. 1833. 



Italian plants now growing here. 



5. Dr. Lush says, he was looking out for the 

 pottery ghye apparatus," which, though long 

 since ready,* I have been deterred from forwarding, 

 as apparently useless, under the existing unpro- 

 mising state of the manufacture of silk at Poonah ; 

 now, indeed, confirmed by the doctor's remarks, 

 that " nothing is doing, excepting under the delu- 

 sion he formerly mentioned, of growing'!' large 

 trees o?ili/, to the neglect of the ordinary Indian 

 practice which I have also frequently shewn is 

 not the most desired by the worm in these aurungs, 

 and therefore not cultivated for their consumption. 



P.S. I will not trouble your Board with copy 

 of my letter of the 8th of July last to Dr. Lush, 

 as its object was chiefly to ascertain the safe 

 arrival of mine of the 16th of April to his address, 

 with packet as therein described. 



To 



* As proposed in my address of the 27th October 1832. 

 f See my letters, 27th October 1832, 2d April, to the Board, 

 also 16th April to Dr. Lush, herewith. 



