VEGETABLE PKODUOTIONS— COTTON. the ground.
Its flocks of cotton closelj'
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resemble in shape those
of the Indian cotton, but those of the red-leaved cotton (No. 27)
resemble them
still
more such
till
at least is the opinion of the
;
pean manufactm'ers.
Euro-
one harvest only, from November
It gives
March.
23. Smooth-stained Cotton.
— This
name has
reference
to
the
appearance of the seeds, which exhibit towards the base a large
smooth
Its cotton is fine
stain.
Coarse Cotton.
24.
— Called
and white.
Grows
in Trinidad Hairy Cotton.
seven feet high and four broad, and gives only one harvest, from
February to May. matured, and
is
Eemains on the
two and a half ounces per
Red Downy
25.
duces 26.
is
tree a long time after
it
is
very easily cleaned, but does not yield more than tree.
Cotton of Siam.
—
Tlie cotton
which
it
pro-
of an Isabel colom*, very strong and elastic.
Mustin
Cotton.
— In
four varieties
all its
it is
so difficult to
clean that the operation has to be performed with the fingers, at
the cost
of sixteen hom's' labour for every pound.
and the Raminez Cotton that name off Cayenne) requires variety
(so called still
The red
from the islands of
more time.
It only gives
one crop a year, small in quantity, and not of good quality. 27. Red-leaved Cotton.
— The
tender bark of the shoots, and
the leaf-veins, are flesh-coloured
;
a great
many
of the leaves
and the outsides of the calices and of the capsules assume the same colour, when the cotton reaches maturity. Those which do not, become stained with red. It only yields one crop a year, from February to March, producing one ounce and three drachms per tree. Its cotton is as white and fine as the Indian cotton, but it cannot be cleaned by machine, and one pound demands at least thu'teen hours of hand labour. Height, seven feet
;
diameter, eight feet.
28. Ifofijas Cotton.
— That of Tranquebar has the leaves
lobed,
the lobes being lanceolate and pointed, and the side lobes jagged.
That of Cambaya has the
leaves divided into three elliptic
and
parabolic lobes, those at the side being cut into, sometimes so
deeply as to
make
it
appear that the leaf has
five
Both
lobes.
one capsule only on the principal nerve of the and even this is apt to be wanting in that of Cambaya. The
varieties present leaf,
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