COTTON-WOOL. 



Memoir oil quality. The musters of cotton and seed now sent 

 Cultivation, with this paper are the produce of Brazil, or what 

 ? March 1819. called kidncj cotton, and Bourbon, marked 

 A and B. Bourbon seed may be planted between 

 small ridges of soil in open field, if the fields can 

 be watered by wells, tanks, springs, or nullahs 

 branching from large streams. The Brazil or 

 kidney cotton is a tree which grows from ten to 

 twelve feet in height, and which produces an im- 

 mense number of pods, having the finest wool en- 

 veloped about conglomerated seeds, each pod 

 having from six to ten seeds so conglomerated. 

 This kind of cotton will succeed and thrive well 

 on the banks of tanks, nullahs near springs, wells, 

 aud small streams of water : it is a very valuable 

 kind of cotton. When the seeds are to be planted 

 they are of course to be separated, so that each 

 pod will produce six or ten-fold only in plants. 

 The packets marked A and B contain pods taken 

 from Brazil and Bourbon trees and shrubs planted 

 by myself ; packet A contains Brazil cotton as it 

 comes from the trees. These pods will shew how 

 formed by nature and how separated by art. If the 

 Board of Trade could obtain from the Honourable 

 Company's Agent residing at Rio de Janeiro in the 

 Brazils about 500 or 1,000 bags of Brazil seed, 

 each bag containing about 100 pounds- weight, and 

 also by the same means some bags of New Orleans 

 cotton-seed, also not forgetting a few bags of 

 American Sea-Island cotton-seed, it should upon 



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