A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . omote the cultivationof flax and its manufacture. About 1718 a number of colonists arrived from Lon-donderry, bringing with them manufacture of linen and other implements tised inIreland. The matter was earnestly taken Tip by the ]5ostoiiians, and a vote passedto establish a sjiinning school on the waste laud in front of Cai)tain Southacks,about where Scollays buildings were. About 1721, at Newport, R. I., hemp orflax used to be received in payment of interest, the fo
A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world : including the structural and economic classifications of fibers . omote the cultivationof flax and its manufacture. About 1718 a number of colonists arrived from Lon-donderry, bringing with them manufacture of linen and other implements tised inIreland. The matter was earnestly taken Tip by the ]5ostoiiians, and a vote passedto establish a sjiinning school on the waste laud in front of Cai)tain Southacks,about where Scollays buildings were. About 1721, at Newport, R. I., hemp orflax used to be received in payment of interest, the former at 8(1. and the latter atlOd. per p<mnd. Pennsylvania ofiered premiums for several grades of linen threadin 1753, and the Society for the Promotion of Arts, Agriculture, and Economy, of NewYork, after adopting resolutions to arrest the importation of British goods, offeredpremiums for linen thread. The early records of Rhode Island develop further inter-esting facts concerning an association of jdantation maidens al)oiit 1706. The orderwas known .as the Daughters of Libertv. Its origin is ascribed to Dr. Brown, at. Fig. 75.—Coinniou tiax, LinxDii iisi atissi- DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 221 whose house eighteen young ladies belouging to prominent families in Providenceassenilded by invitation and employed the time from sunrise to evening in spin-ning. (d. B. Turner, jr.) The statistical records show that sixty-odd years ago almost thrce-(£narters of amillion pounds of llax fiber were produced in the United States, and flax was sentto market from Connecticut sixty years ago that was strong, clean, and as good asany raised in the United States at the present time. Very strong and flexibh (hixalso came from northern New York and Vermont, but it was not clean. Tlie poorestflax of those days came from New .Jersey, though tlio State has been capable ofgrowing Ihix ecjual to Archangel. In past time North River flax was regularlysent to market from New York State, it being very s
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