14i COTTOK 1ST THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [CHAP. IX 



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 ex- 

 hibits the various lengths of the different staples, will 

 convey a general knowledge of the subject ; and it may 

 be added that the North and South American varieties 

 exceed the Indian varieties, not only in length of staple 

 but in fineness and softness of fibre. 

 21 Six leading varieties of Cotton, viz. Indian, Bour- 

 bon, Kew Orleans, Pernambuco, Egyptian, and Sea 

 Island. — With these preliminary observations we may 

 now safely say, that for all practical purposes, the 

 reader of the present volume will only find it necessary 

 to retain the names of six different Cottons, viz. — 



1st. Indian, which is indigenous to the soil. 



2nd. Bourbon, so named from having been grown in 

 the Isle of Bourbon, where it is supposed to have been 

 introduced by the Trench from the "West Indies. It 

 was first cultivated in India during the latter part of 

 the last century and commencement of the present. 



3rd. New Orleans, which is sometimes alluded to as 

 Mexican, and even as American. This was the Cotton 

 which the late Company more particularly desired to 

 introduce into India.f 



4th. Pernambuco, or Brazilian, upon which some 



* For a learned and scientific dissertation on the different species 

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

 Forbes Royle's work on the culture of Cotton in India. 



f Dr. Wight tried other sorts, including Pernambuco ; but it will 

 be seen that the great object of his experimental farms was to grow 

 New Orleans Cotton. 



