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CURATOR, BOTANICAL STATION, ABURI, to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
[Ezxtract.] 
Botanical Station, Aburi, 
Gold Coast, West Africa, 
SIR, Nov ember 11, 1890. 
I AM ieee a his Excellency to pe! you that he is sending 
to Kew a sample of the Egyptian Co ow gro at Aburi. I beg to 
state that I Taai an aes of rm Cot Tt kio grown remarkably 
ell, and is yielding a good crop. I aes already gathered a large 
quantity, and there is still a Tata not yet ready for gathering. 
am, &c. 
The Assistant Director, (Signed) W. CROWTHER. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, to GOVERNOR, GOLD COAST COLONY. 
SIR, Royal es Kew, December 23, 1890, 
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a sample o 
Egypti ian Cotton which I learn from a letter from Mr. Crowther, Curator 
the Botanical Station at Aburi, was grown by him there. This was 
no doubt raised from seed obtained by Kew early in the ol year 
from the British Commissioner of the Egyptian State Doma 
2. This sample was submitted to the Manchester Oiber of Com- 
merce, and I have now the pleasure of forwarding you a copy of their 
aI ‘find that a sample of Cotton from Elmina was tains at this 
establishment in 1882 from the Colonial Office. It was reported upon 
as having for its chief fault “the large proportion of short inferior 
“ wool.” 
4. I trust that the station will possess in the new strain of Egyptian 
cotton a staple free from this defect, and will be able to promote if@ 
growth throughout the Colony. 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) W. T. 'THISELTON-DYER. 
His Excellence 
Sir W. Brandford Griffith, K. “ M.G., 
Governor, &c., Gold Coas 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, 
DEAR SIR, ecember 11, 1 
I THANK you for your letter of the 10th instant, and for the 
sample of C Cotton named therein, which has come s hand. This will be 
wabmaitted to the Board of Directors in accordance with your request, 
and I hope to forward a report upon them in the penne of a few days, 
ours, &c. 
(Signed) ELIJAH HELM, 
: Secretary. 
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