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Excerpt from The California Culturist: July, 1860 Rom a very remote period in the world's history, silks and their fabrics have F ever maintained the first rank among fibril manufactures for beauty, elegance and commercial value. The geographical extent of the countries of the old world, favorable to silk production, is so limited, and the demand for its fabrics so world-wide, that its importance to the commercial and domestic economy of those provinces where it forms a staple production, can hardly be over-estimated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.