VARIETIES OF COTTON SEED. , 115 



Brown, from H. W. Griffith, Hinds County, Miss. 



Willow, from W. Montgomery, Hinds County, Miss. 



Selected Seed, from Col. Jno. L. Groom, Greensboro', Ala. 



Cotton Seed from China, from Patent Office, Washington 

 City. 



Guinea Seed, from John A. Heard, Hinds County, Miss. 



Magnolia, from A. N. Mayer, Holley Springs, Miss. 



These seeds are each generally highly recommended, and 

 some of them are spoken of in such terms that I am induced 

 to expect great things of them. I will thus, with others in 

 field culture, have some twelve or fifteen varieties at least 

 with different names and will be able to report in the fall, 

 I have no idea that all my correspondents can be pleased 

 with my report for it is impossible for me to suit each kind 

 to land, unless my friends had given me hints to guide me in 

 the selection of spots to suit each. But I hope they will bear 

 in mind, that I can have no interest, other than in selecting 

 the very best, and that no one locality will suit every variety. 

 I will illustrate by an example : Some of my friends declare 

 that Sugar Loaf will " double almost " any other variety, 

 while others declare it is no account ; all agree in early ma- 

 turity and ease of picking. The reason of these different 

 true statements arises from the fact, that Sugar Loaf does best 

 upon rich, fresh land, inclining to moisture, that is, green land ; 

 whereas upon high and dry land, and old at that, the produc- 

 tion is not good. 



J. E. H., asserts of his seed, that the production and yield 

 of lint is greater than any I have tried ; he states figures ; he 

 did not state quality of land ; I have planted them upon good 

 upland, cleared twenty-two years ago, from which was taken 

 a 500 Ib. bale a few years since. I only anticipate to give 

 relative yield, and by testing two or three years I can find 

 out which land suits each kind. 



