16 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. 



CHAP, voured to effecb in India with reference to Cotton : viz. To 

 ! introduce 1st, A better variety ; 2nd, A better cultiva- 

 tion ; and 3rd, A better method of cleaning. 



20 1st. Better variety of Cotton s general classifica- 

 tion of Indian and American Cotton. The Cotton 

 plant may be divided, for all the practical purposes contem- 

 plated in the present work, into three species only, which 

 with their respective varieties may be thus briefly indicat- 

 ed. 



1st. Indian Cotton, including the very short stapled va- 

 rieties of Bengal, Madras and Surat. 



2nd. North American Cotton, including, first, the short 

 stapled varieties of New Orleans (Mexican), West Indian, 

 (Bourbon?), Uplands, and Bo weds ; and, second, the long 

 stapled variety of Sea Island Cotton, which is said to have 

 the longest, finest, and softest fibre in the world. 



3rd. South American Cotton, including the long stapled 

 varieties of Pernambueo (Brazilian) Peruvian, etc. 



Besides these, there are other varieties, if not species of 

 Cotton; such as the Cotton tree which grows in the Indian 

 jungle ; and an inferior sort of Indian Cotton, called 

 " Nadum," which is never grown for exportation, though 

 it is occasionally employed for purposes of adulteration. 

 There is also the Egyptian Cotton, which was originally 

 imported both from North and South America about forty 

 years ago ; and which deserves some special mention as 

 some experiments have been made with it in this Presidency. 

 But a full description of these varieties, however interesting 

 to the scientific botanist, would serve no practical purpose 

 in the present publication.* A glance at the frontispiece, 

 which exhibits the various lengths of the different staples, 



* For a learned and scientific dissertation on the different species and 

 varieties of Cotton, the reader cannot do better than refer to Dr. Forbes 

 Boyle's work on the culture of Cotton in India, 



