. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 288 FIBER PLANTS FIBER PLANTS elongata, and "yaxci" for var. Sisalana. The variety elongata, cultivated only in Spanish America, is known by the growers as "henequen," while the variety Sisalana, cultivated mostly in English- speaking countries, is called by the growers "; Both plants are perennial. They have rosettes of fifty to seventy-five rigid, nearly straight, erect or. Fig. 400. Drying fiber ol sisal. spreading leaves, three to five feet long, three to five inches wide, and about one-fourth inch t
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 288 FIBER PLANTS FIBER PLANTS elongata, and "yaxci" for var. Sisalana. The variety elongata, cultivated only in Spanish America, is known by the growers as "henequen," while the variety Sisalana, cultivated mostly in English- speaking countries, is called by the growers "; Both plants are perennial. They have rosettes of fifty to seventy-five rigid, nearly straight, erect or. Fig. 400. Drying fiber ol sisal. spreading leaves, three to five feet long, three to five inches wide, and about one-fourth inch thick above the base, terminating in a sharp reddish brown spine about one inch long. At maturity, eight to twenty-five years, the plant sends up a flower-stalk ten to twenty feet high, bearing dense clusters of erect flowers at the ends of horizontal candelabra-like branches. The flowers are followed by bulbils, or sometimes by seed-pods in elongata, 1,000 to 4,000 bulbils ("mast plants") being borne on a single " ; After flowering, the plant dies. Suckers are sent up from the roots after the first year until the plant dies. Sisal is a hard fiber three to five feet long, rather coarse and stifl", light yel- low or nearly white, nearly always lighter-colored than abaca. The variety elongata, henequen or sacci, develops an elongated trunk two to six feet high, and its leaves, two to two and one-half inches thick at the base, always have marginal spines, while the variety Sisalana, sisal or yaxci, has no distinct trunk; its leaves are usually without marginal spines and rarely more than one inch thick at the base. It produces a stronger, softer, whiter fiber, but in less quantity than the other variety. In eastern Yucatan the variety Sisalana is culti- vated to a small extent for fiber for domestic pur- poses, for hammocks, bags and the like, but the fiber for export is secured from the variety elon- gata, cultivated most extensively in the region abo
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