COTTON PLANT. 
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pression which it undergoes from the feet of the 
negroes is highly necessary, as the closer it is packed, 
the less the commodity suffers from those unavoida- 
ble accidents which it is liable to during the time 
of its exportation. 
When the harvest is over, they take the oppor- 
tunity of wet weather to cut the plants down; which 
occasions them to shoot again the next season with 
double vigour, and greatly improves the ensuing 
crop. 
