SILK COTTON. Ill 



to show how the cotton can grow. Letters written to David 

 Gibson, will he attended to. I trust this act of justice will 

 not be misunderstood, I am sure the seed will be an acqui- 

 sition, and as to price, every man has the right to charge 

 what he pleases purchasers to pay, or not. 



Yours, with respect, 



Edwards, Miss., Jan. 1850. M. W. PHILIPS. 



SECTION VIII. SILK COTTON. 



From the Southern Cultivator. 



MR. EDITOR : Your last Number is mislaid by some one, 

 though in the house. I therefore cannot refer to the page on 

 which my friend, J. V. J., in alluding to the seed I sent him, 

 gives me credit for more than I deserve. I beg to allude 

 thereto. First I object to the name Early Sugar Loaf. I 

 detest multiplying names. I received the seed from Mr. 

 Farmer, Hard Times, Miss., as a present. I have selected 

 from the field for four years. Those I sent J. V. J. were of 

 the third year's selection, and such seed as I never sell, ex- 

 cept in very small parcels, and then to my favored few : be- 

 cause I cannot be paid for doing it, and I only select some ten 

 or fifteen bushels yearly with these I plant twenty to thirty 

 acres from those I select the ensuing year, and from no 

 others. I still call mine Sugar Loaf, and sometimes Select 

 Sugar Loaf. 



The Silk Cotton seed sent to J. V. J. was grown here, the 

 second crop from seed sent me by my friend Col. H. W. Vick, 

 of Vicksburg. It is not the Silk Cotton of the south-west. 

 Let it be understood. J. V. J. has probably the only seed 



