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long and straggling branches. The boll is medium-sized, the seed covered 

 with fuzz of various shades, and the percentage of lint 80 to 32. 



7. Long Staple Uplands of the Allen type. These are large, open, late- Allen, 

 maturity plants that require a good and moist soil. Bolls medium in size, 

 but long, slender ; seeds medium to large, covered with whitish lint of fuzz 

 and long staple, percentage of lint 25 to 29. The plants of this assemblage 

 are industrially, perhaps, the best. The examples are Allen's Improved, 

 Allen's Hybrid, Mathew's, Cook, Doughty, Griffin, Cobweb, Moon, &c. 



So extensive is the literature of the Uplands and other cottons of the 

 United States that it would be impossible to mention in this work a tithe 

 even by name. A goodly number have already been placed under con- 

 tribution, and the following may also be consulted with advantage : Spix Eefer- 

 and Martins, ' Travels in Brazil,' i., 1817-1820, pp. 189, 191, n., p. 15 ; en es. 

 Baines, ' Hist. Cotton Manuf. Great Britain,' 1836 ; Christy, ' Cotton is 

 King,' 1856 ; Donnell, ' Hist. Cotton in New YorJc,' 1872 ; Mell,\ l Climato- 

 logy of Cotton PI.,' 1893 ; Sheppers, ' Cotton Facts,' 1893 ; Mortimer, 

 1 Cotton from Field to Factory,' 1894 ; WatJcins, ' Production of Cotton 

 for 100 Years,' 1895 ; True, The Cotton Plant,' 1896 ; Dabney, ' The 

 Cotton Plant,' 1896 ; Dodge, ' Useful Fiber Plants of World,' 1897 ; 

 Brooke's Cotton,' 1898 ; BurJcett and Poe, ' Cotton,' 1906. Many of the 

 above occur in the publications of the Department of Agriculture in the 

 United States, which literally teem with reports and papers on every aspect 

 of the cotton production and trade. 



Upland Cottons in the West Indies. Sir. D. Morris gives much west 

 useful and practical information in the little pamphlet ('The Indies - 

 A. B. C. o^ Cotton Planting ' No. 31 of 1904) issued by his department. 

 In the ' West Indian Bulletin ' vol. vi., 1905, J. E. Bovell furnishes 

 the results of his experiments in Barbados and the Hon. Dr. F. 

 Watts supplies a similar statement regarding the Leeward Islands. In 

 all these publications and many others the cultivation of the Uplands 

 receives due consideration, but it may be confidently affirmed that 

 the interests of the West Indies are more closely concerned with Sea 

 Island cotton, the success attained recently with that staple being 

 most encouraging. The opinion seems accepted that where Sea 

 Island can be profitably grown no other cotton need be considered. 



Upland Cottons in Russia. Mr. John Martin Crawford ('The Russia. 

 Indust. of Kussia,' vol. in., 1893, pp. 143-9) gives a most instructive 

 account of the cotton cultivation in Asiatic Eussia. There would 

 appear to be three distinct plants (or groups of plants) grown : 

 (a) the Asiatic cotton G. herbaceum (as he calls it), the cotton 

 which he says ' began to develop itself gradually on the borders 

 of the Oxus (Amou Daria and Seikhoun (Syr-Daria) coming to 

 the north from the south of Asia.' This is apparently the cotton 

 of Turkestan generally, and the species to which the Eussians 



