404 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



23, 171, 173, 175-81, 215. See Africa, 

 West 



Sikkim : see Bengal 



Silva, P. de, 308 



' Simms,' trade name, 235 



Sind (Karachi) cottons of, wild, 74-76 ; 

 tree cotton in, 136 ; versus United 

 States cotton-growing, 225 ; success 

 of experiments with abassi in, 225 ; 

 species best suited to, 226 



Sinnergan : see Industry 



Sittain : see Ashanti 



Slater, Samuel, introduced into the 

 States certain English patents, 20 



Slave trade, influence on cotton of: 

 see Negro Country 



Smith, Sir James, correcting Linnean 

 specimens, 203 



' Smooth ' (trade name), 45 



Smyrna : exports in cotton wool, 17 ; 

 cotton of, 46. See Asia Minor 



Socotra, production and manufacture 

 in, 14, 211, 216 



Soils, adaptation to, 42, 130 ; inferior, 

 90; 'black cotton,' 115, 147; red 

 sandy, 130, 288 ; best dry, 131 ; clay, 

 133 ; goradu of Baroda, 148 ; for 

 G. arboreum, 147 ; for O. obtusi- 

 folium, 147 ; for G. Nanking, 147 ; 

 variation in, 147-8 ; of India, three 

 main classes, 147 ; for G. hirsutum, 

 195 ; conditions in Egypt, 221 ; for 

 G. peruvianum, 276 ; quality and 

 production on various, 288 ; for Sea 

 Island, 288 ; soil conditions and pro- 

 portionate yield, 288; soil improve- 

 ment, 288 



Somali Coast, cotton of, 215. See also 

 East Africa 



Soonergong, cotton of, 14 



Sorrel-like cottons, green and red, 263 



Soru kapal, 108 



South America : see America, South 



South India : see India 



Soudan (Sudan) cottons: G. soudan- 

 ensis, Watt, 138 ; Khartoum, 135, 138, 

 215 ; Kordofan, 154, 185, 251 ; Bahr- 

 el-Ghazal, 211, 228 ; White Nile, 154, 

 251, 258. See Tree Cotton 



South Africa cottons : Cape of Good 

 Hope, 127 ; Barberton, 153 ; Bosh- 

 veld, 153 ; Delagoa Bay, 153 ; Natal, 

 215 



Southampton, Earl of (1621), speaks of 

 cotton seed sent from India to Vir- 

 ginia, 100 



Spain, cottons of, 215 ; conveyed to in 

 tenth century, 15 ; Spanish flax, 9. 

 See Europe 



Spermatogenesis, 339 



Spinning and weaving : see Industry 



Split-leaved cotton : see Okra 



Sports : see Recessive Forma 



Staple, Long : Indian cotton, 97, 140 ; 

 Egyptian forms, 182, 222-3, 256, 266, 

 280, 292; 'Long Staple Uplands,' 

 194-5, 234-6, 239, 274 ; geographical 

 distribution of, 235 ; Long Limb 

 Upland of the Petit Gulf type, 238 ; 

 of the United States (Sea Island 

 type), 266, (annual), 286 ; studies of, 

 280; Cluster Series, 281-2; Sea 

 Island hybridising with Uplands, 282, 

 339 ; demand for Long Staple, 285 ; 

 from East Africa, 293. See also Up- 

 lands. Short : Indian, 97 ; of Dacca, 

 102-7, 133; American short staple 

 of commerce, 158, 169, 183, 185, 195 ; 

 Uplands of United States, 192-6; 

 230-41 ; recent success with, 230 ; 

 Mexican type, 231 ; Cluster Series, 

 231-2 ; semi-cluster, 232 ; early small 

 boll, 233; Peterkin, 234; prolific 

 medium boll, 234 ; big boll, 236-7 ; 

 storm proof, 237. See also Uplands 



St. Domingo, Cotton of, 256, 304 



STERCULIACEJE, 52 



' Stickland,' trade name, 238 



St. Kitts : see West Indies 



St. Louis : see America (U.S.) : ' St. 

 Louis,' trade name, 45 



St. Lucia : see West Indies 



St. Ludovic : see Senegal 



Stocking cotton, 120, 304 ; see also 

 Industry 



Stock, improvement of, 319-51 ; 2-5, 

 43, 59-60, 123, 147, 154, 229 ; three 

 methods of, viz. (a) selection, 30, 

 59-60, 90-1, 284, 327-31 ; first prin- 

 ciples of, 342 ; (b) hybridisation, 

 110-121, 331-51, see also Hybrids; 

 (c) acclimatisation, 109, 247, 280, 

 315, 327-8 ; in America by importa- 

 tion of Mexican seed, 230, 262; in 

 America with Sea Island, 282-5 ; in 

 the Antilles, 262-4; in China and 

 Japan, 114-24, 133 ; in Egypt, 219- 

 24 ; in India, 133-4 : in India dis- 

 couraged, 200 ; in India for hybridi- 

 sation, 315 ; in Jamaica, 301-2 ; 

 Mexican used to improve G. hirsu- 

 tum and herbaceum, 192, 209, 273-4 ; 

 original stock from Surinam, 287 ; 

 in West Indies, 335 : method of pre- 

 servation of, 35, 282-3, 328 ; in indi- 

 genous races, 155, 175, 199, 295 ; by 

 seed farms, 175, 329 ; recommended 

 by Rohr, 255 ; successful production 

 of, 273 ; immunity to wilt, 283 ; re- 

 sistant stocks, 284, 331 ; helps to 

 improvement of, 302; environment 

 and improvement of, 328 ; a condition 

 of, 329 ; sudden manifestations, 330 ; 

 formation of new, 330 ; natural or 

 accidental, 333 ; neglect of local, 

 337 ; ancient reappearing forms, 



