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cultural Society of India. Before the close of the year I had ie- 
ceived from that Society through him abundance of Upland Georgia, 
New Orleans, Egyptian, Peruvian, Sea Island. I also received a 
small quantity of Tinnevelly and had obtained two kinds from 
Manila, the white and nankeen colored. 1 he whole of those kincs 
were tried during the year 1837 and part of 18.38, and without an 
exception all failed as a remunerative speculation. It would be 
useless for me to go into detail, with respect to our operations dur- 
ing the space of nearly three years. 1 will simply give an out me 
oAhe result of each kind of cotton planted by the late Sir J p.M. 
and myself, and some reports on samples sent to Calcutta and Eng- 
land, which will close my answer to your correspondent s hrst lettei. 
As I see he lias continued his essay l shall continue to gno ie 
agricultural amateur for cotton culture my opinion as to the likeli- 
hood of its future success, and offer some general remarks 01 lose 
who may feel inclined to try it here, or elsewhere. 1 si needy hope 
vour correspondent will not attribute these remarks to any wish on 
my part to dampen any enterprising spirit that may wish to lnctease 
cotton cultivation in our colonies, or in the Straits. Nothing can 
be more desirable, and every means ought to be rented to, to at- 
tain so great a boon to the mother country. 
Pernambuco Cotton. 
or this kind 1 had about 3 acres well up at the end of 1836 and 
ouuht to have taken from the field by that tune for my first crop 
<100 to 1,000 lbs. weight of clean cotton, but it did not yield more 
than 100 lbs. consequently a complete failure. he plants grow to 
the height of 5 to 8 feet and 1 have seen some highei. As a gar 
den plaiit it thrives well, the pods being generally lull and come t 
maturity but the produce under the most favourable circumstances 
scanty : in the field the plants appeared sickly and the pods seldom 
came lo perfection, being attacked by a small maggot, destroy! 
not only die seed but also the wool, it becoming discolored by the 
oil from the decayed seed. I did not continue this kin . y 
neighbour had a much larger field and continued for a second crop 
and 1 believe a third to the end of 1S3S, at which time our cotton 
experiments were given up altogether. 
Bourbon and Sea Island . 
Mv first experiments in these were apparently successful, with a 
snril natch it a very favourable spot but the first crop ot 1836 did 
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