History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)
Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 342
ed is sown broadcast, and the THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 289 plant is neglected at every stage of its growth; which,together with the carelessness of the natives in gatheringthe cotton, in separating it from the seeds, and in pack-ing it, makes the Indian cotton so much inferior to thatof the United… … Gossypium herbaceum—Herbaceous Cotton. 2d. The shrub cotton grows in almost every countrywhere the annual herbaceous cotton is found. Its dura- For an account of Indian cotton, and its mode of cultivation and prepa-ration, see pp. 64, 65. 2o 290 THE HISTORY OI tion varies according to the climate :…
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