INDEX 



403 



144, 263. See also App. B under 

 Bohr 



Salmali : see Semul 



Samudranta, Sanskrit name for cotton, 

 9 



San Domingo : see West Indies 



Sandwich Islands : see Hawaii 



Sange : see Angola 



Sanskrit names for cotton, 9-10 



' Santos,' grade name, 45 



Sardinia (Cagliari), cotton of, 186. See 

 Europe 



Savage Islands : see Polynesia 



Schimmelmann, M. le Comte, Sainte- 

 Croix in 1789, 120 



Schweitzer, recommended use of cup- 

 rammonia, 39 



' Scinde ' (Sind), grade name, 46 



' Scroggins,' trade name, 238 



' Sea Breeze Cotton ' : see Uppam-parthi 



Seabrook, F. P., improvement of Sea 

 Island in James Island, 282 



Sea Island cotton, 275-95; in Africa, 

 293 ; in America, 277-80, 286, 288- 

 90 ; in Egypt, 166, 222, 225, 292-3 ; 

 in Fiji, Hawaii, and Queensland, &c., 

 294-5 ; in India, 294 ; in West Indies, 

 239, 278, 285, 290-2 ; early mention 

 and history of, 20, 21, 22, 266, 269- 

 70, 271-4, 276-80, 278-9, 306, 325 ; 

 small demand for, 22 ; length of 

 staple, 35, 284 ; breaking point of, 40 ; 

 condition of seed in, 44, 279 ; grades 

 and quality terms of, 45, 47-49, 279 ; 

 origin of name ' Sea Island ' and plant, 

 195, 247, 256, 272 ; separation from 

 Q. vitifolium, 262, 325 ; of Spruce and 

 Boyle, 265; a modern stock, 270; 

 area of greatest success and distribu- 

 tion of, 275-6, 278, 287; degenera- 

 tion of, 275, 285 ; acclimatisation of, 

 275-80, 310; 'What is Sea Island 

 Cotton ' ? and answer, 277 ; markets 

 for, 279 ; price of, 279, 291-2 ; prac- 

 tical experiments with, 280 ; varieties 

 and races of, 278-9, 281-2, 288 ; im- 

 provement of, 282-4 ; proportion of 

 lint to seed, 283 ; yield per acre, 283, 

 290 ; of Mr. Bivers, 284 ; effect of 

 high winds on, 284 ; selection of, 

 284-5; hybridisation of, 285-8, 315, 

 334, 347 ; temperature and rainfall 

 for, 288; favourable soils for, 288; 

 season of planting, picking, sowing, 

 and reaping of, 289-90 ; Sea Island 

 country proper, 310 ; ' Sensation 

 Sea Island Cotton,' 331 ; two pollen 

 grains in, 346. Sec also the note 

 under Island Cotton. 



Seed: Naked-seeded, two groups: (a) 

 with bracteoles free and glands con- 

 spicuous, 244 ; and (b) with bracteoles 

 free and glands absent, 316 ; charac- 



teristics of '(a) group, 244-9 ; wild, 

 246 ; floss separates readily, 246 ; an 

 African form of black-seeded, 246; 

 centres and distribution of, 246, 319 ; 

 influence of, in production of Sea 

 Island, 247; little known prior to 

 seventeenth century, 247 ; derived 

 from Antilles, 247, 324 ; associated 

 with glabrous foliage, 247, 324 ; fuzzy 

 seeds and hairy foliage, 217 ; Fuzzy- 

 seeded American and Asiatic, areas of, 

 80, 163-7, 206, 319, 333 ; two groups 

 of, America and Asia-Africa, 44, 80, 

 217, 245, 319 ; (a) with united brac- 

 teoles (Asia-Africa), 77-81 ; and (6) 

 with free bracteoles, 163-7 (America) ; 

 varying into naked, 152-3, 174, 206 ; 

 Peruvian cotton, 214, 325 ; Green- 

 seeded : ' The very excellent American 

 cotton with green seeds,' 19, 183, 

 186-8 (carried to Georgia), 192, 194, 

 323 ; Black-seeded, 324-5 ; Kidneyed 

 (in a ' lump or bunch '), seeds adhering 

 together, 73, 211, 296-8, 306, 308, 

 see also under ' Kidney ; ' Oil-yielding, 

 52, 271 ; seed-preservation in oil, 105 ; 

 seed-farms strongly recommended for 

 India, 175, 329 ; influence of Mexican 

 supplies on stock of U.S., 193-6; 

 seed easily broken, 254 ; Bohr's tour 

 to collect seed, 262; seed protection 

 against weevil, 319 ; for details of 

 conditions of the seed-coats, e.g. fuzzy, 

 naked, black, white, green, red (khaki), 

 &c., &c., see under Floss and Fuzz 



Selborne, Lord, passage in despatch on 

 cotton prices, 198 



Selection : see Stock 



Semparuthi (red-flowered) cotton, 93 



Semul (and Sansk. Salmali) Bombax 

 malabaricum, 10 ; a red-flowered 

 cotton named after, 95 



Senaar tree cotton : see Tree Cotton 



Senegal and Senegambia, cottons of, 

 154, 169, 171, 173, 175-8, 182, 212, 

 258, 259 ; St. Ludovic, 154, 171 



Serampore : see Bengal 



Sessa (Arab name for cotton), 15, 86 



Shanghai : see China 



' Shine,' trade name, 234 



Ship's cotton (transl. Burmese name), 

 296, 315 



Shrub cotton, 13, 15, 62, 68, 88, 254. 

 See Perennial, also Tree Cotton 



Siam and Siam cottons, 81, 114, 120, 

 190, 201, 250, 296, 301 ; Cambodia, 

 258, 298 



Sibganj : see Bengal 



Sibpur : see Bengal 



Sicily, cotton introduced by Saracens 

 to, 15 



SIDA, 52, 53 



Sierra Leone, cultivation of cotton in, 



