Archive image from page 227 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 220 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. Asia does not prevent ns from admitting that it was at different times taken from the East to the West at a later epoch than that of the first Egyptian dynasties. Thus the western Aryans and the Phoenicians may have introduced into Europe a flax more advantageous than L. angusiifolium during the period from 2,500 to 1,200 years before
Archive image from page 227 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 220 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. Asia does not prevent ns from admitting that it was at different times taken from the East to the West at a later epoch than that of the first Egyptian dynasties. Thus the western Aryans and the Phoenicians may have introduced into Europe a flax more advantageous than L. angusiifolium during the period from 2,500 to 1,200 years before our era.' /'< Candolle. See fig. 75. The flax plant is now widely distributed throughout the world. It is cultivated in temperate North America, to a slight extent in portion- of South America, espe- cially in Argentina (though more for seed than for fiber). It is produced commer- cially to a greater or less extent in Great Britain, Ireland, especially Sweden. Hen- mark. Holland. Belgium, France, Russia, Germany, Austria. Spain, and Portugal. It has heen introduced into Algeria and into Xatal, and its cultivation was old in Egypt at the dawn of the Christian era. In India large tracts are under cultivation, though more for the seed crops than for fiher. Japan has introduced its cultivation commercially, and it has been experimented with in the Australian colonies, where there is a wide range of soil and climate suited to its growth. History of ft,ax culture ix America.— A perusal of the historical records in this coun- try shows that flax culture was one of the ear- liest of colonial industries, and we may he sure that the Puritau maidens, like the Greek maids of old. were familiar with the spinning and weaving of flax, if not with the spindle and distaff of Homeric times, for until compara- tively recent years the culture and manufac- ture of llax in America have heen household indt;stries. The American colonists brought with them the art of raising flax and of preparing
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