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statement tliat Canto cotton is -wild or semi-wild in soutli-eastevn 

 Cubaj it may possibly represent tlxe wild stock of G, hrasiliense; 

 and liaving regard to its close agreement with that species, apart 

 from the free seeds, it lias been provisionally named GossypiiDu 

 brasiliensey var. apo'spermuin, Sprague (var. nov.), as it seems 

 desirable to have a definite name for such an important economic 

 plant. At the same time the possibility of its being a hybrid of 

 G. hrasiliense with some other species cannot be entirely excluded. 

 The study of its behaviour under cultivation may perliaps throw 

 some light on this point. 



Well-prepared material of an interesting wild cotton from 

 Canouan, St. Vincent, West Indies, collected by Mr. F. 

 Birliinshaw, has been received from Mr. W. ^N". Sands, Agri- 

 cultural Superintendent, St. Yiucent. Mr. Birkinshaw's notes 

 are as follows : 



^' Gossypiuin sp. found growing wild on tlie clifFs aboA^e Billy 

 Hole, near Point de Jour, Canounn. The plant is of rather 

 straggly growth, from about 3| to 5 feet in heiglit. Bolls about 

 1-5 cm. in length. Bracts 3 cm. Icng. Capsule usually 4-celled. 

 From descriptions in Watt, ' Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants 

 of the World,' it appears to be very close to G. imnctatum^ var. 



The Canouan wild cotton is G. jninctatum^ var. Jamaica^ Watt, 

 as suggested. The same variety has been collected recently in 

 Jamaica by Mr. W. Harris (Flora Jamaicensis 10179, distributed 

 as G. Jiirsutum, Linn.), on the coast line between Portland Point 



and Eocky Point. 



Mr. Birkinshaw also collected material of three other cottons, 

 cultivated in Union Island, St. Vincent. Of these, '^ Carriacou 

 Marie G 



that species 



^ifarie Galante " are botli foi-ms of G. harhadense, Linil. 



alante '* is either G. periuiamim, Cav., or a hybrid with 

 jies ; whilst '' Ordinarv Marie Galante " ?nd '' Silk Cotton 



T. A. s. 



Siberian Yellow Pine. — Timber merchants are constantlj^^ on 

 the look out for new sources of lumber, and at the present time 

 attention is being paid to the forests of Eastern Siberia, Manchuria 

 and Korea, from whence a good class of pine wood, equal in 

 quality to yellow and red pine of 'NmWx Europe, and Canadian 

 yellow pine, is procured. During tlie last two or three years 

 several experimental cargoes have been brought to European 

 ports, where the timber appears to have created a good impression, 

 although the heavy freight charges incidental to its 12,000 miles 

 journey are a serious hnndicap in its competition with European 

 and IN'orth American pine woods. A Liverpool merchant gives 

 the freight charges per standard of Canadian pine to Liverpool as 

 about £2 2s. 6d., whereas the charges per standard from Eastern 

 Siberian ports is about £7 10s. In its favour is the fact that larger 

 timber can be procured, at the present time, from the Far East 

 than from the readily accessible European and Xorth American 

 forests, imported logs of Siberian pine being from 18 to 23 feet 

 long, whereas Canadian pine logs are often less than 16 feet in 

 length. The difference in the cost of freight would appear, how- 



