FLAX CULTURE: 



AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY AND 

 PRESENT CONDITION OF THE FLAX 

 INDUSTRY IN - THE UNITED STATES, AND 

 A CONSIDERATION OF - THE INFLUENCE 

 EXERTED ON ' IT v BY LEGISLATION. 



BY 



EDMUND A. WHITMAN, A.M., 

 if 



OF THE BOSTON BAR, 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 



J. R. LEESON. 



BOSTON : 

 RAND AVERY COMPANY. 



1888. 



