INDEX 



389 



Chintzes, 14 



' Christopher,' trade name, 238 



Classification of Gossypium, 3, 7, 52- 

 60; Section I., 61-77; Section II., 

 77-163; Section III., 163-244; Sec- 

 tion IV., 244-315 ; Section V., 316- 

 318 ; based on structural peculiari- 

 ties of wild species, 7, 8, 60, 62, 319, 

 321, 322-7 ; on seed and floss, 7, 

 27, 41-9, 55, 56, 62, 208, 319 ; on the 

 presence, position and nature of 

 glands, 56-9 ; on the shape, degree 

 of union, &c., of the bracteoles, 61-3, 

 77-81, 163-67, 244-48, 316, 342 ; on 

 the study of pollen grains, 62 ; 

 adopted by cotton growers, 230 ; into 

 two or more species : see under 

 Gossypium below 



Clark, W. A. ; James Island plantation 

 system, 283 



Climate, climatic conditions and forms ; 

 environment, 3, 328 ; increased tem- 

 perature, 50 ; sports, 89 ; influence 

 on 'races of G. arboreum, 91 ; on 

 insular and continental production, 

 275, 285, 310; of Sea Island, 275, 

 288; too much rainfall, 288; of 

 kidney cotton country, 308, 310 ; 

 ' climatic varieties,' 341 



Cluster and semi-cluster cottons : see 

 Staple, also Uplands 



Coahuila : see Mexico 



' Cobweb,' trade name, 193, 239 



Cochabamba cottons : see Bolivia 



' Coconada ' : see Madras 



Coelho : Duarte Abuquerque, 303 



Coimbatore : see Madras 



Colbiorson, M., cotton furnished in 

 1790 by, 263 



Colombia or New Granada (Cartha- 

 gena), cottons of, 46, 109, 168, 216 



Columbus, no description of plants seen 

 by, 18 



Commerce, trade, commercial enter- 

 prise and influence of cotton cen- 

 tral feature of modern, 9 ; early 

 traffic in cotton, 12-16, 17, 46, 160 ; 

 ancient trades decayed and repaired 

 again, 18 ; exports from America 

 seized in Liverpool, 20, 160 ; American 

 exports in eighteenth and nineteenth 

 centuries, 21, 272, 286; first cotton 

 duty, 21 ; cotton famine and effects 

 on industry, 23, 24 ; exports from 

 India to Great Britain, 21 ; cotton 

 supremacy of England threatened, 24 ; 

 trade requirements and standards, 30, 

 45-51 ; lowest English market quality, 

 47 ; contracts ' Futures,' 50-1 ; Indian 

 Cotton Frauds Act and adulteration, 

 199 ; transport difficulty, 180 ; retro- 

 grade traffic, 200 ; Indian cotton trade 

 restricted, 200; foreign market for 



Indian low grade, 255 ; ' trade ' by 

 Poiret in 1818, 264; cultivation in 

 British West Indies, 273, 278, 285, 

 291-2 ; early exports from Charles- 

 ton, 278-9 ; cotton employed as money, 

 303. See under Industry 



Comptdh (coomptas), commercial spel- 

 lings of Kumpta, which see 



Compton, Mr., 19 



Concan, cotton of, 298. See Bombay 



Congo, cotton of, 214, 215. See Africa, 

 West 



Conquistador es, 219 



Constantinople, cotton conveyed to, by 

 the Saracens, 16. See Asia Minor 



' Cook,' trade name, 239 



Coorg : see Mysore 



Corbett, Sir V., remarks on crop condi- 

 tion and yield in Egypt, 222 



CORCHORUS, 52 



Cossipium, 11 



Costa Rica, cotton of, 216, 299 ; ' Costa 

 Rica,' 169, 170, 296. See America, 

 Central 



' Cotonier de Georgie,' 258 



' Coton Indien ' and ' Coton Siam ' of 

 Rohr, 250, 350 



Coton-pierre,' 296 



Cotton, earliest mention of, 1, 2, 3, 9, 

 10-14 ; contrasted with silk and 

 hemp, 9, 59 ; important inquiries 

 into, 2 ; position in classic litera- 

 ture, &c., 9 ; derivation of word, 10 ; 

 used to quilt beds, 14; of fifteenth 

 century, 16; of sixteenth century, 

 17, 161 ; of seventeenth century, 

 18 ; of eighteenth century, 19 ; of 

 nineteenth century, 21 ; of twentieth 

 century, 24; used byEgyptian priests, 

 85 ; species first cultivated in 

 Europe, position in twelfth century, 

 158; goods, British effect of, 197; 

 high yield of worthless staple, 200 ; 

 essentially a modern cotton, 227 



Counts : see Fibre 



Craven, Earl of, 160 



Crete, cotton cultivation in, 157-8, 159. 

 See Europe 



Crimea, cotton cultivation in, 16, 158. 

 See Europe 



Criollo or ereole cotton, 218 



Crioulo cotton, description of, 296, 308, 

 309 



Crosses and crossing : see Hybrids and 

 Hybridisation 



Cuba : see West Indies 

 Cudapariti, 15, 95, 99 ; paretty, 116 

 Cultivation and cultivated cottons, 

 chief points of interest to planters, 

 2; properties of the cell, 26-34; 

 classification of staples and trade 

 standards, 41-51 ; structural peculi- 

 arities of plants, 54-60 ; arboreum, 



