. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 THE AGEICULTUEAL NEWS. August 1, 1914. COTTON, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolsteiihulme and HdUanil, of Liverpool, write as'follows, under date July IS, with reference to the sales ot West Indian Sea Island cotton:— About 200 bales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been .sold since our last report. Spinners are indifterent buyers and jwices are generally easier all roiuid. The .sales include St. Vincent \6d. to 19d., St. Kitts and Anguilla IGhd. to 11 hd. and Barbados at lyrf. Quota- tions reduced ^d. per
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 THE AGEICULTUEAL NEWS. August 1, 1914. COTTON, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolsteiihulme and HdUanil, of Liverpool, write as'follows, under date July IS, with reference to the sales ot West Indian Sea Island cotton:— About 200 bales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been .sold since our last report. Spinners are indifterent buyers and jwices are generally easier all roiuid. The .sales include St. Vincent \6d. to 19d., St. Kitts and Anguilla IGhd. to 11 hd. and Barbados at lyrf. Quota- tions reduced ^d. per ft. In their last Report, Messrs. Frost & Co. intim- ated that during the .summer months their Report on the AmericaiiSea Island cotton market would be issued onlv uionthlv. Identification of Wild Cotton Plants in St. Vincent.—The Acting Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent, has furnished this office with information con- cerning certain wild forms of cotton recently taken to Kew by Mr. W. X. Sands, Agricultural Superintendent, for identifica- tion. A cotton found liy the Acting Agricultural Superin- tendent growing wild on the cliffs by Point de Jour at Canouan has been determined as Gossi/pium punct'itum, var. Jamaica, Watt. The Carriacou Marie Galante has been stated by the Kew authorities to be G. Peruvianum, C'av. or a hybrid with that species. Other forms of cotton grown in Union Island and termed respectively silk cotton ilarie Galante and ordinary Marie Galante are found to be both forms of G bnrhadense, Linn. As well as the above forms of cotton, an aroid oljservod by ilr. Sands in St. A'inceut, and mentioned by him in an article on vanilla cultivation in St. Vincent pTd)lished in the A'/ricullural Keirf, Vol. XII, No. 286, page 116, has been determined as Fhilodendron giijanteum, Schott. PUBLICATIONS OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The recently issued publications of this depart- ment include Vol. XIV, No. 2 of the West Indian Bulletin containin
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