720 Report on Articles of Trade from Khorassan. [No. 117. 



highly, and it is sent to us from Khorassan as a novelty. Now I find 

 that (vol. IV. p. 218,) in the Transactions of the Agricultural Society, 

 is a letter under date 12th April 1837, from J. W. Grant, Esq. refer- 

 ring to this very Nurma Cotton, as having been grown in Malwafrom 

 time immemorial / It is there compared, in two notes, first to the Sea 

 Island, and then to the Upland Georgia. The fact is, that it has the 

 silky fibre of the Sea Island, and the woolly adherence to the seed 

 of the Upland. It more resembles the fine Manilla cotton, which is 

 always worth a shilling a pound, than any other I can compare it to. The 

 Manilla cotton has like it, the woolly seed. 



Ours are perfectly fresh, and Dr. Spry has promised me to send 

 them to Captain Bayles. I have two plants growing in my garden, but 

 I suggest that it may be of much importance to procure a quantity of 

 the seed from Malwa, for the Cotton Experiment-farm, with some of 

 the soil it is grown upon, and some of these of the best spots for cotton 

 about the Cotton Experiment stations. By comparative analysis of 

 these, we shall be certain that if it does not succeed, it will be owing 

 to climate, and we shall go to work safely as far as soil is concerned. 

 I add a separate memorandum, that no time be lost in procuring the 

 seed and soil for the approaching season. If samples of the soils are 

 sent to me, I shall be glad to give any assistance I can in the matter. 



V. Musagh, Walnut-tree bark. — The use of this at home in dyeing, 

 staining of wood, paper, &c. are so well known, that I have not thought 

 it worth while to experiment upon it, 



H. PiDDINGTON. 



Museum, 2ith August, 1841. 



