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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, to ROYAL GARDENS, KEw. 
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, 
DEAR SIR, December 20, 1890. 
I HAVE now the pleasure to report to you upon the sample of 
Egyptian vo grown at Aburi, on the Gold Coast, forwarded to me on 
the —- 
a is worth to-day about 54d. per pound in ibe or 
Seek aces, and at that price it would find a ready sale. The growth 
of it shou ld be encouraged. Can you tell me whether or not the Gold 
Coast Egyptian Cotton repressnied by your sample is imported in the 
ginned or unginned state? I am informed by a gentleman who used 
to bring this description A Bayiand that he could not get it ginned in 
Africa, because the natives were either not sufficiently intelligent or too 
superstitious to use a ginning machine, although this is of the simplest 
description, resembling very closely an ordinary hay-cutter. It is to be 
feared that if this di fliculty still exists it will constitute a formidable, if 
not an or ple eae a obstacle to the export of this Cotton from the 
Gold Coa 
You 
(Signed) ag HELM, 
Secretary. 
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
SIR, Downing Street, December 16, 1890. 
I AM directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you some speci- 
mens of Egyptian Cotton, cleaned of seeds and unclea ati grown on the 
Castle Farm, Christiansborg, Accra, which have been sent home by 
ihe Governor of the Gold Coast Colony. He states that the seed was 
slanted at ee end of June, and the Cotton picked between the 5th and 
14th Novem 
Lord Knutsford would be much obliged if you could furnish him 
with a report on the commercial value of these specimens. 
Iam, &e. 
The Director, (Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
Royal Gardens, Kew, 
ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
SIR, Royal Gardens, Kew, February 9, 1891. 
I HAVE the honour to etA wledge the re posipi of your ‘letter of 
December 16, transmitting a report on a sample of Egyptian Cotton 
wn on the Castle Farm, Christiansborg, Accra, and sent home by 
the papoa of the Gold Coast Colon ny. 
2. In accordance with Lord Knutsford’s wish the enclosed report 
upon a sample has been obtained from the Manchester Chamber o; 
Commerce, which aa seg obligingly assisted this establishment on 
this and other occasio 
3. From the c correspondence published in the Kew Bulletin for June 
1890, you will observ the production of this type of Cotton if 
successful in West er kk be made the basis of a very profitable 
