THE GARDENERS* CHRONICLE. 



the coast and circars have been destroyed by the 

 more cheaply manufactured goods of Manchester. 



The tracts of country most favourable to th 

 growth of Cotton belong chiefly to the Nizam c 

 Hyderabad and to the Rajah of Nagpore. The val 

 ley of Berar is considered the most suitable, thoug 

 mnch excellent Cotton is also produced in the conn 

 try to the eu y of Hingungha] 



The Cotton which can be had in Berar for abou 

 lid. per lb., can, it has been stated, be used insteac 

 of American for more than 50 per cent, of oui 

 manufactures— that is, for all yarns under No. 20— 

 if sold for about 15 percent, less than the Amei 

 The quantity which could be cultivated is so ] 

 greater than what is now produced, that it bee 

 both interesting and important to i-c. rtain v. I 

 the peculiarities of soil and of climate which < 

 it to produce this superior Cotton, and to en 

 whether they are such as to render it probable 

 American Cotton could also be produced in 

 Sime regions. Before proceeding, it cannot but s 

 some of our readers, that the fact of good Cotton 1 

 produced a 



s production of good C< 

 and also apparently against our inference t 

 certain degree of atmospheric moisture is essei 

 for it might be supposed that the dryness wou 

 greater in proportion to distance from the < 

 especially as we have seen that drought was 

 chief cause of failure with Americ-in Ctt -n i 

 Doab and Bundlecund. But this apparent exception 

 em the rule which we have deduced, " 

 which is confirmed by American Cotton being gi 

 in the dry climate of Egypt with the aid of ir 

 tion. The range of mountains which form 

 northern boundary of the tract in question m 

 to arrest the air loaded with vapours from sout 



s the country in question 



rowtee and with that from Hingunghal. The h 

 he describes as " like all the Nagpore Cotton he 

 seen, of fair length and fineness, colour excell 

 and if little better cleaned, would certainly ei 

 good Mobile or Upland Georgian. It has non 



north-western provinces." Subsequently h 



planted without admixture < 



The Cotton is 





ridging; and the same complaint I 

 heard in the valley of the_Nerbuddah, of too much 



one single process, the crop is at the mercy of every 



cleaning, everything requires to' ' 



In consequence, probably, of the above regions being 

 chiefly beyond U last India Com 



pany, none of the experimental farms si 

 been established there, though both soil 



to promise a favourable result. '! 

 ward some experiments have been made to crow 



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Iirzapore, that the Hin 



i the Oom rowtee. " 

 rved by Colonel Su 

 not visit Hingunghal 



Genus XXIII. 



lest breath of air, will cause all i ***«*CZ 

 e are small, badly filled, of !£L£?**<» * 3 



Nov. i 0> 



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following memorandum 

 of a Camellia ; severs 

 gone off with us lately 



degree attacked, it soon spreads Tver 5*5,*** 

 tl IT 7 a , t . ,ea8t V'? ird ° f ««• crop. t ap *JSr« 

 the observations of the above-quoted bST,^ 

 disease is propagated by the diseased sefdTl^ 

 and will even retain that power after Ki„„ / ^ 

 years in the ground, but will carry with thlm ? ° r *"• 

 that imperfection which causes the Teea to b ^^ 

 attached to the receptacle that the latter e* ^ '^^ 

 it, and the disease becomes hereditary » n?!- 6 ^ 

 count I have thought it advisable to class it „ ."f" 

 among those derived from weakness Un . ^ 

 there is no remedy. The cultivation of h;.. ttnn * td ! 

 suspended in the fields attacked, and some ZiT!\ > 

 of crops substituted, until there is no a™ K , tatlon 

 infected grains remaining in the ground. "$&# 



rther» ra °°» Unto *' ""* TCry " kdy bt """" '» 



n of tins disease, which destroy so many of £ 

 they begin°to shrive? an? dry* upf an™ a IffiS 



have been a frequent « 

 phenomenon in the Pea-fields of my own department 

 This malady is deserving of a close study. I am Z, 

 occupied with it, and shall publish 



fS^BtotemenJ made 0b b liD me "n^fe^ 1 ^ 16 "^ 

 Rabbia in my essay on Nosology, I will deckm? it in 



he Sy of m ractical la ad' 

 i affects the Chick-i 



■ acid, called by chemist 



eakened by t 



when at Jubbulpoor, he observes that he learned ; 1 V " ! " 



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■-■-.. ■• ; • , . ■•■... ^ ■ • • ^'. • !. , . .:. • : • • • ■ ,.■■■■:■-•■ 



•■ c u?fofth' att ; egr T d] r ; why e^s 



■ a Hoshungabad, in the Nerbuddah U n ree^the re 



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Is the superabundance of it." sent instance. Dans mav be nlaced in a cold frame, or 



ie valley," Mr. M. further ! • ? h ? s f cim o en aho P 



perfect (Ira-; " he found b , lo 6 lcal evidence on 



villages bordering the 

 and it is the crop < 

 excepted, that prodi 



is me most important in all the j 



rivers where the land is savin?, i 



>f all others, probably Hemp ' Genus XXII 



aces the most ready sale." i This name is giv 



er no land suited for Cotton part of th panic! 



DISEASES OF 



Mip inej 



are large enough t 



uniess tne water runs quickly and thoroug] 



lor this reason, it is only sown in the broken 1 ^: ■ the farinaceous r 



country near and among the rai a ^hia disorder causes g. eat devastation in Rice g 



he infers, that as Cotton is not there, as in Bundle- i , g \ aD ^j he ? umtt ? 13 c ° o1, aml 

 cand, '-one of the riff-raff crops," the n '" J'! 1113 ' feomc P ersons have assui ' 



certainly fall into a plan of cultivation /tu a i - . f caU8ed by certain winds » of shor t dura 

 American) which would'make the ve^ lands the I InZ't iTZZ^'r^f W ° W t0Wards „* ! 



.ive." though ^.\lS2$ZfiZ«£ ^^ C8Q •««*»»*■- 

 .Deludes at Baitool, he Sign Biroli informs\s that Rice, if it grows immo- 



Z 'i? m T te ?' in I ? r erat l y - at the ,T of puttin * {on * it3 p-^ icle ' « uff ™« 



emorandum he states | fr °m thw rapid development, and is proportionately 

 Oomrowtee he found I wakened. May not this circumstance also be set down 



and th a t the merchants at the latter place accounted ' ,f the wat « st > « to fortify the pVnTby the action o? 

 for the super; his debility. * °' 



the care in gathering and cleaning, and t Nation, or , M 



Mercer's publish, 

 seems subsequent 

 the Berar valley, 

 " that between El 



The young plants rapidly progress 

 and require a pot to each plant. 



wers before the 

 done or not, the plants grow on, ana 

 i protected in cold frames or ph*., Jf 





