GARDE
C O.
18043
BOLMAY 04
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
May 19, 1904.
422
Sir,
I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter from the Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, Hong Kong, on the subject of cotton cultivation in the colony. The Superintendent states that "seed can be obtained through Kew" and that he "has received instructions to communicate with Kew with a view to obtaining the best kinds of seed for the purpose".
2. There is apparently some misapprehension as to the part which Kew can play in the matter. For many years past anticipating what it was inevitable would happen, through the good offices of the United States Government and latterly through those of the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture in the West Indies, I have obtained small quantities of cotton seed of good quality and these I have distributed to the various colonial Botanical Stations and ...
Esq., C.B.,
Colonial Office,
C.P. Lucas.
Downing Street,
S.W.