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RAW-SILK. 



To Dr. C. Lush, M.D., Supei^inteiident of the 

 Honourable Company's Botanic Garden, Da- 

 poor ee, Poonah. 



Letter to With vour favour of the 21st ultimo I have 



Superintendent 



of Botanic received the small canister containing cuttings of 

 the entire leaf variety of the morus indica, originally 

 sent from St. Helena. These, you vrill be glad to 

 hear, arrived four days ago in a promising state 

 of preservation, and were immediately put into 

 the ground. I shall be happy if the opportunity 

 is afforded to give you the information you desire, 

 as to the comparison of the leaves of the plants 

 when growing, and the samples you have now 

 sent of the large Italian white mulberry. They 

 retain a considerable degree of freshness, particu- 

 larly the smallest, though you seem to think the 

 larger keeps its moisture longest; but this may 

 be accidental after the journey. I have put them 

 between the fresh folds of the plantain-leaf to be 

 occasionally changed. They are all similar in 

 form to the ba-dessy heretofore described, though 

 varying in size, even so large as six inches by 

 four (altogether unknown here), thus resembling 

 the mulberry-leaf of England, but I should think 

 of finer texture, yet not more nutritive than the 

 dessy kajlah of Bengal, supposing that the worm 

 preferred it, which it does not. 



2. Your letter to Mr. Secretary Reid of the 



31st 



