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Flak manner since some 15 years ago, when they ceased weaving 
cloth from their own cotton, preferring to buy the European 
manatan goods. 
This cotton is sent to me by a planter in the vicinity who states that 
he believes it to be of very good quality. Could you have it reported on, 
and let me know whether it TA is a cotton which noe apna a pe 
price ? g eee are divided as to whether it is or it is not worth o 
while to cultivate cotton. It grows half wild about the obits but ‘it 
is said that the transport to the coast, which would cost about an average 
of 6/. a ton, would leave little or no profit to the planter. 
Believe me, &c. 
(Signed) H. H. JOHNSTON 
Her Majesty’s Commissioner and Consul-General. 
SECRETARY, MANCHESTER oe ee OF TANT to ROYAL 
GAR 8, KEW 
Chamber of E Ookihane, Manchester, 
DEAR SIR, January 9, ete 
I obtained an expert opinion upon the sample of Central 
African polion referred to in your letter of the 6th aitak, and have 
pleasure in reporting thereupon. 
The fibre is of a woolly character, but it is clean and bright, rhs 
a good deal me coloured į ar what appear to be insect stains. The length 
of the staple is 14 inch to 1,3, inch, varying considerably in ee 
but it is mie? very tender. It could probably be sold here at about 
. per lb. at the present time. 
Faithfully yours, 
(Signed) ELIJAH HELM, 
John R. Jackson, Esq., Secretary. 
Kew Museum, Kew. 
IX.—_CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN EGYPT. 
(Gossypium barbadense, L.) 
[K. B., 1897, pp. 102-104.}- 
Next to the United States and India, Egypt is one of the important 
cotton-producing countries of the The iea bee Egyptian 
n 
ut 2,000,000 ewts. annually. The 
quality is eis! oo good, sae Tanks next to a celebrated 
Sea-island cotton of Am 
The silted mean oe the history of cotton cultivation in Egypt 
lately appeared in Jowrnal of the Society of Arts (December 25th, 
1896, PP. 98, 99): 
* Some interesting information is given in a recent issue of the 
Bana du Ministère de VAgriculture respecting the different 
descriptions of cotton which have been successively cultivated in Egypt. 
The fibre cotton cultivated in the delta of the Nile was iE Jumel, 
