THE DEVELOPMENT AND 

 PROPERTIES OF RAW COTTON 



CHAPTER I 

 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEDIGKEE 



THE reader of a book dealing with the various kinds of 

 raw cotton, or with the cotton trade, will notice a very 

 large number of tolerably confusing names Oomrawat- 

 tees, Uplands, Islands, Nyasaland, and so forth. If he 

 is engaged in the manufacturing side of the trade, many 

 of these will be familiar to him, but possibly without any 

 conception of the different kinds of plant on which they 

 are borne. If the grower's side of the trade is his affair, 

 a few of them will be very familiar ; but he might even 

 fail to recognize plants of unfamiliar kinds for cotton- 

 plants at all. 



Reference to works dealing with the botany of cotton 

 may easily bewilder any reader of an inquiring turn of 

 mind. Either the multiplicity of names leaves him with 

 the impression that these tilings are better left to botanists, 

 or on further inquiry he finds that different names are 

 given to the same kind of cotton. In point of fact, the 

 main outlines of the Systematic Botany of the cultivated 



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