RAW-SILK. 



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the moms alba Italy; the only one perhaps in (K.) 

 Bengal, unless Dr. Lush succeeded in sending Re"denT^ 

 others to Calcutta. The Board are aware that I Soonamooky. 

 I sent plants of the first-mentioned kind to the 

 Horticultural Society of Calcutta, which arrived 

 Isafe ; and my letter of the 27th of October 1832 

 is descriptive of the nature of the mulberry-plants 

 of these aurungs, those most nutritive and eagerly 

 desired by the silk-worm, and the process of 

 cultivation. 



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