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the 
cotton it not laken immediately from the plants. 
Upland Georgia, New Orleans. 
whole a bare and scattered ciUtwation ine sir 
1837 by the different kinds was q&out -3 acre *> ? & 
Jose had I believe nearly 30. ^ 
The whole produce collected by me, say two crops ol 1836, , I 
vvaS bales Bourbon shipped in June 1838 on the JOHN DUGDALE 
and 6 1£ 'shipped 0 in Dumber ,838 
containing 9 ^ ° ( bfvVfgo exfbut ^n.elhai mixed," and not 
carefully pi“’"ed, which no doubt was the case, our cotton .gins be- 
• ino . ver y imperfect. The remainder of my labours I sent to China, 
about id Diculs, making altogether about 15 piculs not more than 
fne quarter of what at the lowest calculation it ought to have turned 
out for one years crop. 
Notes. 
Calcutta reports, nth April, 1S37 . 
On samples of Singapore grown cotton. See Proceedings of the 
Agricultural Society. Calcutta, Voi. IV page 48. 
^ Presented by Mr. CRANE at the last meeting grown at Singa- 
pore from seed originally Pernambuco and Bourbon. 
The Pernambuco kind is f< decidedly of inferior quality, being 
coarse, harsh, short in staple, and very weak. ” Of the Bourbon 
Mr Willis reports more favourably. It is line, and silky, and of 
pretty good strength of staple; yet not quite so strong as it ought 
to be : its complexion is good also. “ Mr. WlLLlS values his cot- 
ton with reference to the latest advices from Liverpool at about gd. 
per lb. the seed is represented to be smaller than usual in this des- 
cription of cotton, but does not consider this as an invariable cri- 
terion in contrasting the quality of the wool, and very appositely 
asks how is it that we sometimes find inedible and other fruits 
improve in their flavour or the volume of pulpy and fibrous matter 
when the seed itself become much diminished under improved cul- 
tivation. " 
" Mr. W. C. Crane submitted some very line specimen of cotton 
grown at Singapore from Upland Georgia seed which he had receiv- 
ed form this Society in OcLober last and from seed received from 
Manila. A pod of the latter was without exception the most per- 
fect, beautiful and largest ever grown or seen in India. Mr. CRANE 
terms it Manila Cotton.” From the same; Volume V. page 202. 
“From W, C. CRANE, Esq., dated 6th July, 1836, presenting a 
specimen of Sea Island grown at .Singapore from seed forwarded 
bv this Society. Mr. 1 1 Oi l NAGLE’S report : — 
