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oties were earlier Introduced by Mr. Allen under the names Allen 

 Yellow Bloom and Allen Hybrid, which have become distributed 

 throughout the country- Allen Improved was distributed to some 

 extent in L900, 1 nit up to the present time has not been generally dis- 

 tributed. It is said by Mr. Allen to be a cross between his Yellow 

 Bloom and Hybrid. The variety is recommended because of its pro- 

 ductiveness and its lone- staple. The bolls when ripe open up wide, 

 like ordinary Upland, letting the cotton hangout and making it easy 

 to pick. It is said to pick easier than the Allen Hybrid and to have a 

 stronger fiber. Mr. Allen states that it has stood the weather better 

 for the past three years than any other variety of lone- staple he has 

 ever planted, not rotting in wet weather like the Yellow Bloom. It 

 gives mi average yield per acre of about L,500 pounds of seed cotton 

 and from 300 to 400 pounds «>F lint. The crop of L900, Mr. Allen 

 states, sold for 17 cents per pound net; that of 1901 for 1 5 cents; 

 and that of 1902, from which the seed distributed by the Department 

 was taken, for from 16£ to 17 cents. Mr. Allen's cotton is ginned on 

 a saw gin. 



Plant 3 to 6 feet high, compact, branching like Truitt, with two or three long 

 basal limbs and one main central stem. Bolls of Upland type, medium size, slightly 

 pointed, 4 to 5 locked, opening wide. Seeds medium large rize, weighing 0.14 to 

 0.15 gram, gray tufted, 7 to 9 per lock. Lint white, fine, and silky, 1J to 1 J inches 

 long, fairly strong. Per cent of lint 27. Time of ripening midseason. 



The seed distributed was grown by James R Allen, the originator 



of the variety, at Port Gibson. Miss., in the season of L902. 



GRIFFIN. 



Griffin is a long-staple, bio-boll Upland cotton (PL II), produced by 

 John Griffin at Refuge plantal ion, near ( Hreenville, Washington County, 



Miss. The first selection was made in the fall of 1867, and the seed 

 first planted in the spring- of lstiS. After about ten years of selection 

 some seeds were distributed among friends in the vicinity < >f Greenville, 

 and a few bushels were sold. The variety, however, has never been 

 generally distributed. Regarding its origin, Mr. Griffin says: 



The variety resulted from across of the old "Green Seed" cotton with Sea Island, 

 the cross being made to give a tendency to the < oven Seed to produce a longer and 

 finer fiber. The hybrid was from 12 to 16 feet high and very unproductive. It was 

 recrossed five years in succession with pollen of the constantly impn >ved < Jreen Seed. 

 This resulted in reducing the stalk to within a few inches of the length of that of 

 Green Seed, in giving it a larger boll, and in making it nearly as prolific. Every 

 successive crossing was made on stalks which least resembled the Sea Island form 

 and most nearly approximated the Sea Island lint. 



The selection of the cotton has continued without intermission from 1867 up to the 

 present time (1902). Selection was practiced five years in succession before hybrid- 

 ization -was employed, and continued constantly while the latter was going on. 

 There was at first little difference between the two hybrids produced by crossing Sea 

 Island bloom with Green Seed pollen and Green Seed bloom with Sea Island pollen. 



