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bear this out. The highest % (34) of successful pollinations 
being when the average cloud was least (‘09) and pari passu 
the more cloud the fewer fertilised bolls. Mr. Charles Benson told 
me that rain or even heavy dew would often cause half ripened 
bolls to drop, and a good many were lost, probably from this cause. 
I collected the hybrid seeds myself, and after picking off 
the floss sowed them in pots from which the young plants were 
put out into beds, in February 1905. The uniformity of the 
crosses between Jarv and the local ‘ herbaceums” was very 
striking. They were all alike in having the red stems and 
petioles and narrow-lobed leaves of Jai, but had the full yellow 
Howers of Jowari, Northerns and Bilac. One lot, No. 3 in tables 
II and V and i. in table X came into boll in April, and by sowing 
seed at once, I obtained a second generation crop before the 
November rains. This was sown along with seed from the others 
on land hired near Madras, when I had, therefore, one lot a 
generation ahead of the others. 
The plants of the first generation, with the exception of the 
lot just referred to (fig. 15) were all larger and more vigorous 
than their parents. This increased vigour was continued in the 
2nd, 3rd and 4th generations, and was very marked. Those of 
each bed—v.e., from each hybridised boll—were, as far as I could 
see, very much alike. Inthe 2nd generation, however, the utmost 
diversity appeared among the descendants of the Java and “ her- 
baceum” and Bani and “ herbaceum” crosses. Some grew tall and 
straight, branching stiffly at right angles (fig. 16), others were 
low with spreading branches (fig. 17). Some had broad lobed 
leaves of the “herbaceum” or ‘ obtusifolowm” type, others had 
the long narrow pointed lobes of Jari. While, moreover, all in 
the first generation had yellow flowers, a considerable number of 
the 2nd generation from a white and yellow flower cross had 
pure white flowers. Some had short rounded bolls like those 
of the original Jowaiz, in others the bolls were lone and 
pointed. Again, the short coarse nature of the lint (floss) of 
the Jari and Ban parents was absent in the first generation, but 
appeared in the second. And Mr. C. Benson drew my attention 
