MAGANLAL L. PATEL (7% 
Gogha Petha of the Ahmedabad District. Its introduction seems to have 
been quite recent, and it has probably come from Khandesh. Prior to the 
great famine of 1899-1900, it was, according to Middleton!, grown to a very 
limited extent in Bhavnagar, but its extensive adoption dates from about 
1900. This adoption seems to have resulted from the fact that it will 
grow with less rainfall and in lighter soils than the varieties of Gossypium 
herbaceum formerly produced, and because it vipens earlier and hence 
enables the cultivators to realize their crop and pay their land revenue 
without recourse to a money-lender. Its extension, however, in the first 
years was slow, and it is barely mentioned by Gammie in his description 
of Indian cottons published in 1905. Since that time, however, its cultiva- 
tion has increased enormously in Kathiawar, but it has been adopted only 
in the areas already mentioned in British Gujarat. Moreover, it does not 
show much sign of spreading further, as it is found that in the lighter soils 
of Northern Gujarat it has a tendency to ripen later, to decrease in ginning 
percentage and to yield less than herbacewm cottons under irrigation. The 
actual portion of British Gujarat which it occupies is shown in Plate II, 
where its areais 27,000 acres. It rarely occurs as a mixture in the field, 
except to a very small extent, with Wagad and Lalio cotton ( see below ). 
But by far the greater part of Gujarat is cultivated with various 
varieties of Gossypium herbaceum, and it is to this species that its cottons 
owe their special reputation and character. The description of- these 
varieties, their characters, and the areas they occupy, is, however, in 
considerable confusion, and nearly every authority seems to have adopted 
a different arrangement of them. We shall take as the basis of the 
following short account, the descriptions given by Gammie in 1903. He 
first divides the types of Gossypium herbaceum occurring in Gujarat into 
two groups as follows :— 
“Section A. Bolls spherical, with broad valves, splitting so slightly 
when ripe that the cotton does not emerge. Wagad or Wagadia and Sakalio, 
five to six feet in height, cotton copious, but rather coarse, staple $ inch. 
Bolls with a very short point, but occasionally narrowed into a long one, 
mostly three-celled, dimensions average one inch by one inch. 
“* Section B. Taller and more compact plants than in the first 
section ; bolls more distinctly trigonous, narrower and pointed. Valves 
of ripe boll strongly reflexed so that the cotton is pendulous: bracteoles 
not so distinctly spreadine. 
1 Agricultural Ledger, 1895, no. 8, 
