108 COTTON- WOOL. ^ 



t B*^"*b possesses little of the natural properties of 



7 Jan. 1824. its parent stock, and that its appearance here 

 does not accord with the favourable report made 

 upon it by a Committee of Native Merchants at 

 Bombay. We should be glad, however, to receive 

 a further specimen and in larger quantity. 



No. 52. 



Extract Letter fy^om the Governor -general and 

 Council in Bengal to the Court of Directors, 

 dated the ^\$t March 1824. 



Letter from Par. 15. With re^rard to the information required 



Bengal, » ^ ^ ^ 



31 March 1824. by your Honourable Court in the thirty-first para- 

 graph of your present despatch, it appears from a 

 communication made to the Board of Trade on 

 the subject by the Superintendent of the Botanic 

 Garden at this presidency, that the Brazil cotton 

 referred to has proved triennial^ both at Futteghur 

 and at the Botanic Garden. Dr. Wallich, however, 

 applies this term to its productiveness^ as he states 

 that the shrub itself will continue alive for five or 

 six years or longer, but that after the third year it 

 declines rapidly and yields a very small crop. 



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