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India and Gujarat. Throughout the four first named, 

 the prevailing cottons are of neglectum type mixed with 

 a plant resembling hani. If these two cross freely very 

 close observation would be needed to establish the fact; 

 that they remain, on the whole, true to type is easily demon- 

 strated. The produce of these plants is probably the most 

 inferior cotton in India which, however, fetches a price 

 in advance of its intrinsic merits on account of its white 

 colour and suitability for adulteration with wool. 

 Throughout the area is found intermixed a superior style 

 of cotton which has been already distinguished by the 

 Cotton Specialist as malvensis. Officers of the provincial 

 departments who are serving in coarse cotton tracts are 

 already testing the feasibility of establishing this as a pure 

 race, and Mr. Clouston of the Central Provinces is sanguine 

 of ultimate success. 



In the Punjab alone there is an annual variety of 

 arboreum which the Cotton Specialist has already named 

 sanguineum. It occurs chiefly as a mixture in the 

 fields, and from a trade point of view there is no particular 

 reason why it should be isolated, as its cotton is in no way 

 different from that of the more common varieties. At the 

 Lyallpur farm the Economic Botanist was engaged in 

 studying a set of Punjab cottons, so that he could draw out 

 a scheme for future work in selection. The experiments 

 with upland Georgian and Egyptian cottons were of 

 prime importance. The former is not of the New Orleans 

 type, naturalised in the southern parts of Bombay and 

 Madras, and which is intolerant of cold, but the true Up- 

 land which requires a distinct autumn for its develop- 

 ment. Sales of this cotton have proved that a good price 

 can be readily obtained for it, and since the officers of the 

 Punjab Department have found in this a product far in 

 advance of anything they can hope to attain from the 

 selection of their indigenous varieties, it was gratifying 

 to see that they were attending specially to the establish 

 ment of first class varieties of upland Georgian. They 

 ought in this connection to carefully study the methods 



