406 



WILD AND CULTIVATED COTTONS 



Verdao cotton, 309 



Vilayati, 96, 113 



Vine-leaved cotton (O.vitifolium, which 

 see), 255-65 ; of Driander (1782) = 

 Q. hirsutum, 185 



VIOLA, species, hybrid and pollen grains 

 of, 349 



Virginia and Virginian cottons, 258 ; 

 first attempt to grow, 18 ; encourage- 

 ment given, 19-20 ; Levant cotton 

 taken to, 81 ; Mogul's cotton supplied 

 in 1621, 100 ; first exports from, 272 



Wa-been cotton, 94 



Wadhiaro, 152 



Wadhwan : see Gujarat 



Wagadio, 152 



Wa-gale (Burmese) cotton, 128, 129 



Wagria race (O. obtusifolium, var. 

 Wightiana, hybrid), 152; 49, 133, 

 148, 149 ; Hove's Gujarat annual 

 cotton, 145-6; Clark's experiments 

 with, 336 



Wa-gyi (Burmese) cotton, 129 



Wa-ku-la of Mason, 296 



Wankaner : see Gujarat 



Watni, Ind. hill name for cotton, 125 



Watt, James, 19 



Wyatt, 19 



Weaver, J., of Margarini plantation, 312 



Weevil : see Diseases 



' Welborn Pet,' trade name, 232, 238 



West Africa : see Africa 



' Westerns, 1 Madras trade name, 46 



West Indies, cotton of, 7, 97, 170, 224, 

 227, 228, 251, 257, 285, 287, 290-2, 

 298, 305, 335 ; cotton seed conveyed 

 to America, 18, 22, 272 ; Indian seed 

 ditto," 101-2 ; types, grades and names 

 of, 46, 262-4, 291 ; Cuba, 170, 298 ; 

 St. Lucia, 216 ; G. peruvianum in, 

 216 ; Uplands in, 239 ; San Domingo, 

 252, 264 ; Dominica, 252 ; Levantine 

 cotton in, 264 ; spontaneous cotton 

 in, 267; St. Kitts, 268, 271; St. 

 Thomas, 268 ; Barbados, which see ; 

 Bahamas, 268 ; Martinique, which 

 see ; Trinidad, 268 ; Porto Bico 

 (Spanish), which see ; acclimatisation 

 of O. barbadense in, 273 ; Sea Island 

 in, 275, 289 ; cultivation of Brazilian 

 cotton by early planters in, 287 ; 



compared with the States, 291 ; 'West 

 Indian Green-seeded,' 191 ; recent 

 production in, 291-2 ; chief crop in, 

 305 ; improvement of stock, early 

 experiments, 335 



'White,' name given to an Egyptian 

 cotton = Abassi, 45 



White Nile : see Soudan (Egyptian). 



White Siam cotton, acclimatisation of, 

 in 1758, 190 



Whitney, invention of saw-gin, 20, 188 



Wild and indigenous cotton : see In- 

 digenous 



' Willet's Bed Leaf,' trade name, 232 



' Wise,' trade name, 238 



Windward Islands : see Antilles 



' Withy Wood ' : see Jamaica 



Wolstenholme and Holland : quotations, 

 291-2 



Won : see Nagpur 



Wool (cotton), see Floss 



Xylon : ancient name for cotton and 

 synonym for Gossypium, 12, 59 



Yangtzekiang : see China 



Yarkand : production and manufacture 

 of cotton in, 13 ; cotton of, 116, 122, 

 125. See Asia Central 



Ychcaxihuitl : 255, 258 



' Year round ' cotton, forms of, &c., 263, 

 335 



Terra (red), a cotton synonym for 

 Nadam, which see 



Yokohama : see Japan 



Yucatan (see America Central) wild cot- 

 ton, 207 



Yunan : see China 



Yxomtom cotton of the Bugres of S. 

 Brazil, 296 



Zafiri, an Egyptian cotton, origin of, 



214, 223 

 Zambesi and Zambesi expedition: 



cotton of, 135, 154, 185, 211, 215, 



228, 251, 268, 298, 311, 317. See 



Africa East 

 Zanzibar: cotton of, 252. See Africa 



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