HAW SILK. 



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To N, Wallich, Esq., Superintendent of the Bota7iic i^-) 



J Letter to 



UardeJl. Superintendent 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of 

 your letter dated the 28th ultimo, and, in reply, 

 to inform you, that the Board of Trade had pre- 

 viously been apprised of the two boxes of mul- 

 berry-plants having been laden on the Sir Charles 

 Malcolm at Bombay for this Presidency, but were 

 not aware of the plants having arrived off Calcutta. 

 The Board desire me to express their satisfaction 

 at their having reached you in so thriving a con- 

 dition. They are much gratified, also, at learning 

 from the second paragraph of your communication, 

 that the plants forwarded to you in April last are 

 likely to turn out so well. 



2. The Commercial Resident of Soonamooky 

 having requested to be supplied with a few of the 

 plants just received, the Board will be obliged by 

 your furnishing him, on his application, with a 

 small proportion thereof. 



of Botanic 

 Garden. 



To Colin Shakespear, Esq., Resident at Soonamooky, 



I have been directed to acknowledo;e the receipt better to 



^ y Resident at 



or your letter with enclosure, dated 20th August, Soonamooky. 

 and with advertence to the third paragraph 

 thereof, to intimate to you, that the two boxes of 



mulberry- 



