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quality than the first ;* that some varieties of indi- 

 genous cotton plants are perennials; that others 

 grow to the size of large trees, it is impossible 

 to doubt that both the soil and climate of many 

 provinces and districts of India, are peculiarly 

 favourable to the growth of the cotton plant and 

 if so, reasoning from the analogy affiorded by the 

 experience of every civilized agricultural Nation on 

 the face of the Earth, it is reasonable to con- 

 clude, that with care and attention, the foreign 

 varieties of the plant may with great advantage 

 be largely introduced into India and the indigenous 

 varieties may be made to yield very greatly 

 increased crops ; and a very much finer quality of 

 cotton. 



It would almost appear then, that the question pro- 

 posed, has been already answered, and that, in the 

 experience of the past, we have most complete and 

 satisfactory evidence of the two facts of greatest 

 primary importance viz. that exotic cotton can 



* Mr. Bingham of Cheynpoor (apud Cotton Hand-Book. Medli- 

 cott.) He adds that plants are now standing in his garden since 

 1856, healthy and prolific, and from which he anticipates continued 

 prosperity. The Collector of Cuttack reported in 1848 that 

 bushes grown from Georgian or New Orleans, some fifteen, soma 

 six yeara old were then standing 1 , and had produced annually 

 three crops, without cultivation, irrigation or labor of any sort 

 being bestowed on them. Relatively, he added, to the area the 

 plants occupied, each of these crops was larger, than an ordi- 

 nary crop of indigenous cotton, and 'beyond all comparison 

 superior .' 



