SERICULTURE.
A meeting was lately held in Christchurch of persons interested in sericulture. Mr Federli, an expert, acting as agent for Government, had been entrusted with the distribution of mulberry trees being obtained by Government from New South Wales. The first consignment of trees were to be so distributed that the test of their merits might be thoroughly tried, and specially that small lots might be grown in various localities, by which means the suitability of given districts would be determined. Cuttings of mulberry trees were shortly to arrive from San Francisco, and seed from Japan. A clayey soil, mixed with sand or shingle, is most suitable for the culture of the mulberry tree. A lady exhibited a specimen of the spun silk of commerce, which commands a large sale in England; and Mr Federli said that it would be an easy matter for the article to be produced locally. One of the speakers mentioned that in America sericulture had now become a commercial success, upwards ot 8,000,000 mulberry trees having been planted. It was also mentioned that in America the industry afforded employment to numbers of girls and young women on account of it being peculiarly adapted to them.
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Patea Mail, 19 July 1881, Page 4
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