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after the name of the person who introduced its cultivation, in the 
reign of Mehemet Ali, in 1820. M. Jumel, who was a Frenchman, had 
remarked in the garden of one of his friends living near Cairo, certain 
cotton plants, of which the seeds had been imported from the Soudan. 
present 
sources of wealth that the cotton might assure to the country, placed at 
the disposal of Jumel vast extents of territory, and gave him every 
facility in his enterprise. This cotton was also known by the name of 
Mako, after a Bey in whose gardens Jumel had originally found the 
y he only 
abandoned for Mit Afifi, which at the present time is most largely 
cultivated in Egypt. ae Afifi is a very strong variety of cotton, 
easy to grow, and does not require any very excessive irrigation, 
The colour is slightly Gallows and is much te ges — d ave spinners. 
Another kind of cotton called Bahmieh* is a limited 
extent, and this is a delicate variety requiring j aiT soil. It 
yields a whitish cotton, which is particularly used for certain articles 
of t 
Their total annual production hardly exceeds from 60,000 to 70,000 
quintals. Man er varieties, such as Zafivi, Abbassi, &c., have 
been experimented with by many growers, but up to the present the 
results have not been copie ried advanced to enable an accurate opinion 
to be formed as to their merits. Egyptian cotton, whatever its variety, 
preserves its a qualities, which causes it to be much sought after 
uropean and A m: arers s a matter of fact, no 
its at and universal consumption, has the fineness, the strength, 
and brilliancy kamier for the manufacture pipet) ood conditions 
of a large number of special articles. Egyptia EPEAN are used in 
making threads of the numbers 60 to 150, while. Indian cotton makes 
threads of numbers 5 to 18, and American cotton threads from 20 to 
50. The a of Egyptian cotton are such that it finds a ready 
utlet on Eur markets, no matter what may be the production and ` 
prices of Soitan oF other origins.” 
The following further information respecting Egyptian cotton is 
en from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, vii. 627, 
and contains Hotes on the use of manures for increasing cotton crops in 
the Nile Valley 
“Tt is to ret isons crop of the Delta that Egypt owes its present 
ancial prosp It covers between a third and a half area, 
the remainder being uncropped in the summer, but cro} with maize 
in flood-time uring the winter th try is an uninterrupted 
expanse of wheat, barley, and clov cotton is sown i 
t 
rings, of which nine are given during the hot weather by lift with 
alloskwheel or steam-pump. Its produce is at least eight times that 
* An account of Bahmieh or Bamia Cotton is given in the Kew Report for 1877, 
pp. 26, 27. 
