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ROYAL GARDENS, ee to Governor, GOLD Coast Corowr. 
Sir, yal Gardens, Kew, December 23, 1890. 
I mave the cud to acknowledge the receipt of a sample of 
Egyptian ae which I learn from a letter from Mr. eie eer 
of the Botanical Station at Aburi, was grown by him there. This was 
no doubt raised from seed obtained by Kew early in the “present year 
from the British Commissioner of the Egyptian State Domains. 
is sample was submitted to the Manchester Chamber of Com- 
merce, and I have now the pleasure of forwarding you a copy of their 
ort. 
3. I find that a sample of cotton оа Elmina was = at this 
establishment in 1882 from the Colonial Office. It was reported upon 
аз Saring for its chief fault “the large proportion of доб inferior 
+ x trust that the station will possess in the new strain of Egyptian 
cotton a staple free from this ben and will be able to promote its 
growth throughont the Colony 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) W. T. THISELTON DYER. 
His Ex xcellency 
Sir W. Brandford Сая. K.C.M.G., 
Governor, &c., Gold Coast. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, to Royan GARDENS, Kew. 
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, 
Dear SIR, December 11, 1890. 
I THANK you for your letter of the 10th instant, and for the 
sample of cotton named therein, which has come to hand. This will be 
submitted to the Board of Directors in accordance with your request, 
and I hope to forward a report upon € in = course of a few days. 
(Signed) У РЫЙ HELM, 
Secretary. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, to ROYAL GARDENS, Krew. 
Chamber of ее wer! 
DEAR Sir, December 20, 1890. 
I HAVE now the pleasure to report to you upon the sample of 
Egyptian vum en at Aburi, on the Gold Coast, forwarded to me on 
the 10th instan 
This eem i is worth to-day about 53d. per pound in Liverpool or 
Manchester, and at that price it would find a ready sale. The growth 
of it should be encouraged. Can you tell me whether or not the Gold 
Coast Egyptian cotton represented by your sample is imported in the 
or unginned state am informed by a gentleman who used 
to im A this deseription to England that he could not get it ginned in 
rica, 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 
eared that if this difficulty still exists it will constitute a formidable, if 
not an cc eei a obstacle to the export of this cotton from the 
t 
Gold 
(Signed) - > ram HELM, 
