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4 th. French, or Small-seed, with a whitish beard. 
This is the cotton in general cultivation in Hispa¬ 
niola. Its staple is finer, and its produce equal to 
either of the three species last mentioned, as the 
shrub is supposed to bear a greater number of 
pods than the Jamaica, or the Brown Bearded, but 
is less hardy'than either. 
5 th. Kidney Cotton, so called from the seeds be¬ 
ing conglomerated or adhering firmly to each other 
in the pod. In all the other sorts they are separa¬ 
ted. It is likewise called Chain Cotton, and, I 
believe, is the true Cotton of Brasil.—The staple 
is good, the pod large, and the produce considera¬ 
ble. A single negro may clear with ease sixty-five 
pounds in a day, besides which, it leaves the seeds 
behind unbroken, and comes perfectly clean from 
the rollers. It is therefore improvident, in the 
highest degree, to mix this species with any other. 
On the whole, the most profitable sorts for ge¬ 
neral cultivation seem to be, the second of the 
Green-seed, the French or small seed, and the 
Brasilian. The mode of culture is the same with 
all the different species, and there is this advan¬ 
tage attending them all, that they will flourish, in 
the driest and most rocky soils, provided such 
lands have not keen exhausted by former cultiva¬ 
tion. Dryness, both in respect of the soil and at¬ 
mosphere, is indeed essentially necessary in all its 
stages 5 for if the land is moist, the plant ex¬ 
pends itself in branches and leaves, and if the rains 
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