VEGETABLES* 



seed cotton. Nankeen cotton is principally grown 

 in the middle and up])er country for family use. It 

 is so called from the v/ool, resembling the colour of 

 nankeen^ or Nankin cloth; which it retains as long 

 as it is worn. It is not in muph demand, the white 

 cotton having engrossed the public attention. Were 

 it encouraged, however, cloths might be manufac- 

 tured from it, perhaps not inferior to those imported 

 from Ghina, it being probable the cotton is of the 

 same kind ; as from experiments wliich have been 

 made, nankeens have been manufactured in South 

 Carolina state, of good colour and of very strong 

 texture. 



Green seed cotton produces a good white wool^ 

 adhering much to the seed; and, of course with dif- 

 ficulty ginned. Its produce is greater, and its rna« 

 turity is sooner than the bh\ck seed; for which rea« 

 son it is principally cultivated in the upper and 

 middle country; as the seasons of those districts are 

 shorter, by several weeks, than those of the lower 

 country; and the frosts are more severe. 



Black seed cotton is that which is grown in the 

 lower country, and on the sea islands; producing a 

 line white cotton, of silky appearance; very strong, 

 and of good staple. The mode of culture is the same 

 with all these species; and rich high land is the soil 

 ©n which they are generally planted. In the middle 

 country, however, the high swamp lands produce 

 the green seed^ in great abundance ; and some tide 

 lands and salt vv^ater marshes (after being reclaimed) 

 in the lower country, have also made excellent crop^> 

 of this valuable article. * 



* Drayton's View of South Carolina, 



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