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adjoining seed, and do not cling as in desht. The seeds are larger and darker 
in colour and have more fuzz. The wool (7.e., lint ) adheres more firmly to 
the seeds, is whiter, crisper, coarser, and more abundant. It is supposed to 
be a cross between the two cottons of herbaceum, namely, Broach deshi 
and Wagad. Goghart and Broach deshi seem to cross readily, and plants 
intermediate between the types are very common. 
“ Gundi Goghari plants are smaller with numerous bolls. The cotton 
is betterin quality than is Goghart proper. This is believed to be an interme- 
diate form between Goghari and Kahanmi.”’ 
Some of these statements seem equally true to-day. In other matters 
the cotton seems to have considerably changed its character. We will, 
however, indicate a little later in what ways the present day typical Goghart 
cotton differs from what Middleton describes. 
Eight years later Gammie! published his description and classification of 
the Indian cottons, but the following is his only reference to this variety :— 
- “Tt is similar in most respects to Wagad, but the plants are more 
spreading and the bolls open out like those of Lalo.” 
In a later report?, however, he states that Goghart exists as an appreci- 
able mixture in J3:oach, but not in Surat cotton. In the neighbourhood of 
the Broach District, he quotes a case where Goghari occurred to the extent 
of 14 per cent. in the mixture grown. 
He says, moreover, that ‘‘in Goghari the seed is larger than that of 
Broach deshi, and the cotton is more adherent so that it is more difficult 
to gin. The fuzz is white while that of desht is brown.” We will consider 
later how far these observations agree with ours. 
2. Characteristics of Goghari cotton. 
None of these references to Goghari cotton had hitherto given’a really 
recognizable description of the variety with which we are dealing. It is, 
however, very distinct, and in the relatively pure form in which it occurs in 
the Jambusar Taluka of the Broach District it can be recognized easily 
when growing, after the bolls have opened, and also in the seed cotton or 
even in the seed. So far as the. plant itself is concerned, a critical study 
for anumber of years has, however, failed to indicate any constant feature 
by which Goghari plants can be distinguished from ordinary plants of 
Broach deshi up to the time of the opening of the bolls. The form and 
branching of the plants (and the form of the leaves ) are similar, the manner 
1 The Indian Cottons, 1905. 
* Renort of the Imperial Cotton Specialist, 1914-1913, 
