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linen rags ; but Mr. Lambe, of Newcastle, Staffordshire, has 
succeeded in making equally as good a paper from old ropes 
and bagging. 
Hop-Bine Paper. — Mr. Barling, of Maidstone, has suc- 
ceeded in manufacturing a strong serviceable brown paper 
from the hop-bine, and judging from the specimens of 
bleached bine submitted to my inspection, there cannot, I 
think, exist a doubt of the practical application of the fibre 
to the manufacture of writing paper. It is estimated that 
15,000 tons of hop-bine are annually obtainable in this 
country, the only application of which, hitherto, has been to 
form shelter for cattle, as manure, or burnt to get rid 
of it. 
Peat Paper M. Lallemand, of Besancon, Chemist, has 
taken out a patent for the manufacture of paper from peat. 
Mr. W. H. Clarke is also the patentee of a process for con- 
verting peat into paper, and using it as a substitute for paper 
in the manufacture of carton pierre, papier mache, &c. Peat 
paper is manufactured in the neighbourhood of Turin, and 
in some parts of Germany. The materials employed, in 
addition to peat, are rags, old ropes, and bagging, and the 
bark of the mulberry tree. It would be a very gratifying 
circumstance if some portion of the nearly 3,000,000 acres 
of Irish peat could be applied to so useful a purpose as the 
manufacture of paper. 
Couch Grass or Twitch Paper Mr. Jeyes, of 
Northampton, has successfully applied the common couch 
grass (wick) as a material for making a stout brown paper 
and millboard. The twitch is a well-known weed, prolific in 
its growth, and very troublesome to the farmer, who collects 
it in heaps and burns it on his land. The fenny districts of 
Lincolnshire are verv favourable to the growth of this weed ; 
and a company has been formed for the manufacture of paper 
and millboard at Stamford. 
