Discovert of a Silk Plant.— The Department of State at Washington had received information from the United States Consul at Lambayeque, Peru, that an important discovery had recently been made in Peru of the silk plant. Preparations were been made to cultivate it on an extensive scale. The shrub is three feet or four feet in height. The silk is enclosed in a pod, of ■which each plant gives a great number, and it is declared to be superior in fineness and quality to the production of the silkworm. It is a wild perennial, the Beed small and easily separated from the fibre. The stem of the plant produces a long and very brilliant fibre, superior *in strength and beauty to the finest linen thread. Small quantities have been woven in the rude manner of the Indians, and the texture end ferilUanoy wrft said to
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Southland Times, Issue 753, 22 November 1867, Page 3
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145Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Issue 753, 22 November 1867, Page 3
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