G O S 



G O S 



the corolla : anthers kidney-form : the pistillum Culture. — All these plants are raised here from 



is a roundish germ : style columnar, the length seed, which must be sown in pots rilled with 



ot the stamens : stigmas three cr four, thickish : light earth, in the early spring months, plunging 



fhe periearpium has a roundish capsule, acumi- them in the common or bark hot-bed. When 



natc, thicc-or four-celkd : partitions contrary : the plants have attained a few inches in growth, 



the seeds very many, oval, and involved in cotton, they should he removed into separate pots, and 



The species cultivated are : !. G. hcihaavm, again placed in the common or bark hot-bed, 



Common Cotton ; 2. G. arlaraan, Tree Cotton ; where they must constantly remain. 



The first and third sorts, as being annual, 

 must have the seeds sown every year. The 

 fourth is perennial, and the last biennial. 



They flower and produce seeds in the stove, 

 where a few plants afford much variety. 



In the West Indies, where these plants are 

 cultivated for the cotton which they produce, 



3. G. hirsutwn, Hairy American Cotton; 4. G 

 Barbadense, Barbadoes Cotton Tree. 



The first has a tapering woody root, with 

 numerous fibres, annual : "the seed-lobes two, 

 kidney-form, terminating gradually in a long 

 petiole with the figure of a" halved funnel : the 

 stem three feet high, upright, round, pubescent, 



as is the whole of the herb, at bottom brown, the seed, according to Marty n, is set in rows, 

 with shght chinks, at top spotted with black: the about five feet asunder, at the end of September 

 branches are axillary, scarcely longer than the or beginning of October, being at firstbut slighUy 

 leaf at their origin : the leaves are alternate, only covered ; but when grown and strong, the root 

 half the length of the petiole, tomentose, odorous is weli moulded up." The seed is apt to decay 

 whilst young. The flowers are of a yellow when it is set too deep, especially in wet weather, 

 colour. It is a native of the East Indies, and The soil should not be stiff or shallow, as this, 

 often known by the title of Levant Cotton. plant has a tap-root. The ground must be 



The second species has the stem eight feet hoed frequently, and kept very clean about the 

 high, the thickness of the human leg, with a young plants, until they rise to a moderate height, 

 rugged brown bark, and long, diffused, twisted otherwise they are apt' to be destroyed by eater- 

 branches : the leaves are three- or five-lobed, pillars. It grows from four to six feet high, and 

 without glands, smooth, scattered, petiolcd ; the produces two crops annually; the first in eight 

 lobes short: flowers entirely yellow, terminating, months from the time of sowing the seed ; the 

 and solitary. A native of the East Indies, &c. second within four months after the first; and 

 The third has a shrubby stem, a fathom in the produce of each plant is reckoned about one 

 height, erect, striated: the branches hirsute: the pound weight. The branches are pruned or 

 leaves alternate; the upper ones divided, cor- trimmed after the first gathering; and when 

 date, acute, entire, rough with hairs about the the growth is over-luxuriant it should be done 

 edge; the lower three-lobed, the lobes little divid- sooner. When a great part of the pods are ex- 

 ed, ovate, acute, entire, hirsute beneath, smooth panded, the wool is picked, and afterwaards 

 above : the petioles round, striated, dotted with cleared from the seeds by a machine called a gin, 

 black, hirsute : there is a single glandular pore composed of two or three smooth wooden rollers 

 on the midrib underneath, and sometimes two or of about one inch in diameter, ranged horizon- 

 three on the next nerves : the peduncles are three tally, close and parallel to each other, in a frame j. 

 times shorter than the petioles, thick, stiff, hir- at each extremity, being toothed or channelled 

 sutc, dotted with black. The flowers are yellow, longitudinally, corresponding one with the other; 

 and succeed by large pods. and the central roller, moved with a treadel oc 



The fourth species has the stem from six to foot-lathe, resembling that of a knife-grinder, 

 fifteen feet in height, suffruticose, biennial, and which makes the other two revolve in contrary 

 smooth: the Branches are almost erect, round, directions. The cotton is laid, in small nuan- 

 and smooth or pubescent : the leaves alternate, tities at a time, upon these rollers, whilst they 

 the upper three-lobed, the lower five-lobed; are in motion, and, readily passing between them, 

 lobes ovate, acute, nerved, smooth above but drops into a sack, placed underneath to receive it, 

 pubescent underneath : petioles five or six inches leaving the seeds which are too large to pass with 

 long, roundish, patulous, smooth or sometimes it behind. The cotton thus discharged from 

 pubescent: glandular pores commonly three, the seeds, is afterwards hand-picked, and cleans- 

 on the midribs of the leaves underneath : the ed thoroughly from any little particles of the 

 peduncles opposite to the petioles and shorter, pods or other substancss which may he adhering 

 tlnckish, round, striated, pubescent, one-flower- to it. It is then stowed in large bags, where 

 ed : the flowers are large, yellow, turning finally it is well trodden down, that it may lie close and 

 red, succeeded by oval pods. It is a native of compact; for which purpose some water is 

 the West Indies. occasionally sprinkled upon the outside of the 



