The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 382
carried on not only in France, but in Germany, Italy,and Spain. It is the opinion of some persons that the rearing of silk-worms in England might be carried on so as to become anestablished trade ; but at present we only deal with it as arecreation, leaving the supply for mercantile necessities… … SILKWORMS, MOTHS, COCOON, AND CHRYSALIS Oshnes, Achezans, and Mustahs—all of which bar-barous names represent different descriptions of silk, mestif not all of which, we believe could be surpassed by Englishsilk, when reeled with English intelligence. The silkworm has been described as the only…
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