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(2) Dharwar American and Cambodia. — The former 



had practically failed, on account of the attack 

 of leaf blight, the latter grew satisfactorily, 

 branching in all directions. On examination 

 the fibre was found weak and the staple com- 

 paratively short, though it showed high percent- 

 age of cotton to seed. This quality may fetch 

 Es. 20 to Rs. 25 more per candy over the local 

 cotton. 



These varieties were planted out too far apart (6 feet on 

 either side). The American annual forms are grown in 

 the same way as the local cottons, i.e., lines 2 feet apart 

 and distance from plant to plant 1 to \\ foot in the row. 



(3) Seed from Rangoon. — The resulting plants were 



of the neglectum type, the ripening period had 

 considerably prolonged, probably due to irriga- 

 tion. In parts where the neglectum types are 

 grown, the crop requires five to six months only 

 to mature. The quality of cotton is in no way 

 superior to the local cotton; it should, therefore, 

 be abandoned. This is something like ' Mathio 

 cotton. 



(4) and (5) Spence and Kidney cottons (perennial 



varieties).- — These had made very unsatisfactory 



progress. Results of a few years' experiments 



proved plainly that all the varieties of tree 



cottons possessed so many inherent defects that 



their profitable cultivation was impossible on a 



field scale. 



Mr. Spence's attempts at the cultivation of Spence 



variety on a large scale at Deesa and Jamnagar, Mr. Tytler's 



at Belgaum with Rough Peruvian and Messrs. Shaw, 



Wallace & Co.'s in Bengal with Caravonica and almost all 



tree cotton varieties hopelessly failed and no one reports 



even moderate success with them. 



The chief drawbacks in their cultivation are : — 



(1) Their very structure is that of woods and sheltered 

 places, 



