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 344
n seeds arcdeposited in each hole, but only one of the stems whichthey produce is allowed to remain; the shrubs requireto be pruned, and the plantations to be well weeded;and they seldom continue to yield good cotton more thanlive or six years, but in the hottest countries two crops THE COTTON… … Gossypium religiosum—Shrub Cotton. 3d. The tree cotton grows in India, China, Egypt, theinterior and western coast of Africa, and in some partsof America. As the tree only attains the height oftwelve to twenty feet, it is difficult to distinguish thetree cotton and the shrub cotton, from the…
Cotton manufacture
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