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required. This will be entirely under the control of the 

 Agricultural Department. 



The private seed-farms will gradually establish a 

 reputation as suppliers of good seed. The crop will be 

 grown, the ginning done and the seed supplied at first 

 under some supervision from the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment. But it is hoped that gradually supervision will 

 become unnecessary and a private seed supply agency will 

 grow up and relieve the Agricultural Department of what 

 is at present one of its most onerous duties. 



My assistant, Mr. Mankad, also independently visited 

 the Provinces and furnished notes supplementary to my 

 own. The types grown at Cawnpore under numbers are 

 thus understood by us. 



I. G. obtusi folium, 

 II. G. herbaceum, 

 III. G. arboreum, 



IV. G. indicum (true) with yellow flowers, 

 V. G. neglectum, broad-lobed, yellow flowered (var. 

 MaLvensis), 



VI. G. neglectum, broad-lobed, white-flowered, with 



branching habit, 

 VII. G. neglectum, broad-lobed, white-flowered (G. 

 indicum var. Mollisoni according to us), 

 VIII. G. neglectum, narrow-lobed, with yellow flowers 

 (var. vera), 

 IX. G. neglectum, narrow-lobed, white-flowered 

 (var. rosea), 

 X. Assam or Kil cotton, 

 XL G. sanguineum, with pink flowers. 



The Economic Botanist has numerous crosses and one 

 between arboreum and Mollisoni has been worked up to a 

 field scale. His object is to produce, if possible, a type 

 possessing the following characters : — (a) early maturity, 

 (b) heavy outturn, (c) high ginning percentage, (d) supe- 

 rior quality of fibre, (e) cotton with naked seed. To achieve 

 the last object he has selected a long fibred type of Chinese 

 cotton which has naked seeds, and this is used for crossing. 



