COTTON-WOOL. 



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twelve feet, and some a still greater height. The State of Culture 



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species which is most generally, indeed it may be Cottonin India. 



said universally, in cultivation in India, is an 



annual shrub, a variety of the green-seed kind, 



yielding a white pod; but even of this variety 



there are many sub-varieties, of some of which the 



wool is more easily separated from the seeds than 



of others. There are, likewise, cotton-plants with 



brown, yellow, ash-coloured, and iron-grey pods. 



Some of the species have black seeds, some green 



seeds, and there is cotton found with red seeds. 



The introduction into India of new and better 

 species, and of improved modes of preparing 

 cotton for the European markets, has at various 

 times during the last thirty years engaged the 

 attention of the Court of Directors and of the 

 Indian Governments, and also of the private resi- 

 dents, and the following kinds of foreign cotton, 

 and probably others, have become objects of expe- 

 rimental cultivation in various parts of India, viz. 



Sea Island cotton, 



Barbadoes cotton, 



Brazil cotton. 



Bourbon cotton, both of the green-seed 



kind and the black- seed varieties. 

 Cotton from China. 

 It would be matter of gratification, if it could 

 be said that success had attended these endea- 

 vours : but the native cultivators do not appear to 



have 



