Show A SUPERIOR perio perlo COTTON PLANT byl syl i you W will 1 I be glad giad to tb rec ree receive elvea an nae nac account of t he tho rem rom remarkable likable di discovery f of a new cotton plant planet which from irom ii li all ali 11 T reasonable so able ablo appearances is destined in a very few years to quite a revolution in the cotton agriculture and business of egypt opinions are divided as to the origin of this welcome stranger signor giacomo russi eusi the austrian consular agent in if the most important cotton district has publish published bd an interesting account of the dis dig covery of the tho naw plant and of what has bag resulted and ia likely to result I 1 cannot do better than give you an abstract of this report the new plant was waa discovered on the cultivated pro property perty of a copt in i n the distri district et about tw two 0 years ago it was found among other cotton plants and at once attracted attention by its different appearance and also aiso aso by bearing I 1 n more pods in the hope of by the discovery the owner isolated the plant and carefully cultivated and 0 observed it next year he i ascertained beyond all doubt that the product was wag 0 f a superior quality and that its cultivation in egypt presented i no rio difficulty so much int interest erest was excited by the discovery that the small quantity of seed that aoud ou id be collected was sold at twelve egyptian sovereigns the ahi ahl a high b price when it is remembered that bad bat the very best seed of other cotton never exceeds al 1 per signer russi bussi mentions men liona that by many people the plant piani is supposed to be the taa growth of seeds imported from the thel brazils while others thin it the result of a mere chanco chance co combination ni of signor signer russi does doea not accept either view and proceeds to describe the plant as having a long stem and being without branches L eo 0 that a good deal of space is is saved in cultivation to the advantage of course of the cultivator the new plant bears beara on an average from forty five to nitty pods whereas usual cotton potton plant averages twenty nive five to thirty five yield of the former has been nine to fifteen cantara per the yield of the latter is usually from four to nine cantara can tars rs the crop is thus doubled for sowing ea too 0 0 a smaller quantity of the new seed d is required the usual amount of seed for one is one one and a half keli keeli of the new now feed teed only one keli kell is necessary ned essary the only drawback ta the tho new plant is that it ic je quires more water 3 the r soil oil gli is thereby im impoverished verla veria hed to remedy this it would be necess necessary ary gry to how fow alternately year by year a crop of grain or alexandria egypt cor for london D daily a iry ily aws |