Herewith I tend you a few seeds of a vegetable celled " Loof" brought from Grand Cairo, in Egypt, last year by my uncle, Rev. Dr. Dorr, of Philadelphia, which he hat just seat me for cultivation.

The fruit is described as resembling a Cucumber, from which, after the ripe and decaying pulp has been washed away, a fibrous substance is left very much in appearance like fine manilla grass, but woven by the great Architect into a beautiful woof with three ornamental rows of seed cells, slightly raised from the ground-work, in admirable adaptation for the purpose to which it is applied. This is used by the Turks, in their baths, as a wash-cloth; or, when dry, as a flesh-brush of which I have a specimen about eleven inches long by three inches wide, (which I shall be happy to show you hereafter,) the full size of the fruit, cut longitudinally, which I am told grows on a vine resembling our common Gourd.

Please plant the seeds in your green-house and see what they may come to. J. Dorr. - Scotts. vills, N. Y.

Mr. Dots will accept our thanks for the seeds; they are put in the way of growing.