[Wild Silks of India]
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A short note in Nature summarizing a letter by T. F. Peppe in the Journal of the Society of Arts on cultivating India's wild silks, especially tussur. It covers the abundant host plants and labour in the jungles, the difficulty of obtaining seed-cocoons from the wild, and the uncertain number of broods per year.
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- Article
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- January 13, 1887
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- English
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