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In answer "to your* 1 ette^ 423/I2-T2 concerning the re¬ 
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The seed in most, cases germinated, well hut Nagpur Grif- 
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fin,Peterkin > s long staple, Tfowkin’s improved Trints big 
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boll, and some others completely failed, as these however were 
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■all planted in one set of beds I am inclined to think that 
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this was due to the soil onljr of this set of Nagpur s,the hes 
was Bourbon hut it failed to fruit rrooe^ly* 
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The. Nagpur broad leaved varieties were more severely 
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attacked by leaf-rollers than the narrow leaved neglectum 
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series and were also more attacked by J^rsdercus* 
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The best in growth of the Negiectura series were Braisa, 
and Jalna yellow, the pods however were vew small* 
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Egyptian and American kinds gpew fairly ^ell but were 
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much damaged by pests, I am inclined to think that Sea Is- 
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land and perhaps the TTpland strains are best in this country 
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But I should certainly not recommend any one here at 
least in the south to attempt to grow cotton commercially* 
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The number of pests which attack the plant here is very 
large indeed* A leaf rolling caterpillar, and a small boring 
Caterpillar attacking the shoots, damage the vegetative or¬ 
gans. The fruit is attacked "by Pysdercus cin/nilatus: a pink 
moth caterpillar,which devours the seeds,and a minute dip- 
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ter on, larva so utterly destroy the fruit that not one per 
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cent of the fruit comes to maturity, many plants have not 
produced a single good pod, and I have been unabl© to save a 
single seed of many kinds, the pods being quite destroyed 
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