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in our collection not on account of superiority of either staple or ginning per- 
centage but because it is an all-round good yielding cotton. Its ginning 
percentage is slightly above the average, while the staple represents about the 
mean for Goghari cotton. 
Strain B3. 
In the same year as the strain previously described was first selected, 
plants were picked out which had large and tapering bolls, for it was supposed 
at that time that a large bull means a cotton with a high ginning percentage 
and a tapering one would be likely to give a higher staple lint; unit selection 
was continued on the same basis in succeeding years, and a pure strain with 
the above boll characters breeding true was obtained in 191€=17. It was then 
discovered that the strain obtained had another character, namely, that the 
main stem was inclined to develop to an exceptional extent, and hence te 
give a tall habit to the plants. | 
We have, hence, a plant which while giving about the same number of 
monopodia as the strain previously described (the most frequent number 
being 5 ) and which hence is bushy in character, at the same time grows tall. 
The habit of the plant is wel! shown in Plate VI when it is compared 
with a strain (E5) laterto be described. The tall character is so fara 
special feature of the strain that if the main stemis pruned, the axillary 
vegetative branches grow vertically and still give a plant a tall appearance. 
In other respects the plant is typical Goghari in character. 
The flowering of this strain of cotton was observed in 1918-19, when the 
succession of flowers in twelve plants was noted as follows :— 
Number of flowers from October 11 to 17 .. 142 
Do. Do. 13) foL24 145 
Do. Do. PA ripsiy Ae 193 
Do. from November 5 to 10 .. 148 
A gap occurred between October 31st and November 5th, but these figures 
nevertheless show that the flowering is steady for over four weeks, rising 
to the greatest frequency in the latter part of the period. After the date 
above given rain occurred and flowering stopped. 
The specia! characters of the produce in the strain of cotton are as 
follows :— 
(1) The bolls are tapering, studded with dark dots on the surface 
which is rough. The bolls open as ina typical Goghart plant ; the weight 
of kapes per boll was :— 
(a) in 1917-18 .. 227 
(5) in 1918-19 ae 1°70 
