Report on the agriculture and geology of MississippiEmbracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state . ure,and comparatively so light, neat, and agreeable in itshandling. THE COTTON PLANT, ITS ORIGIN AND YARIETIES,AND ITS ENEMIES AND DISEASES. The cotton plant, to which the generic term Gossypiumhas been applied by botanists, is of the order Polyandria,belonging to the Monadelphia class of plants.^ Although comparatively of recent introduction here,the cotton plant was known in the earliest ages in theOld World. Herodotus describes the plant as producing in theIndies a wool of
Report on the agriculture and geology of MississippiEmbracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state . ure,and comparatively so light, neat, and agreeable in itshandling. THE COTTON PLANT, ITS ORIGIN AND YARIETIES,AND ITS ENEMIES AND DISEASES. The cotton plant, to which the generic term Gossypiumhas been applied by botanists, is of the order Polyandria,belonging to the Monadelphia class of plants.^ Although comparatively of recent introduction here,the cotton plant was known in the earliest ages in theOld World. Herodotus describes the plant as producing in theIndies a wool of finer and better quality than that ofsheep. Pliny mentions certain wool-bearing trees whichwere known in Upper Egypt, bearing a fruit like a gourdof the size of a quince, which, bursting when ripe, dis-plays a ball of downy wool from which are made costlygarments resembling linen. At the commencement of the Christian era, it hadbecome an article of commerce in the ports of the RedSea; and the remote provinces of India had at that earlyperiod acquired a celebrity for their cotton fabrics. * See Plates III. and del Ii4iiI,J(|i».s.!mIi«I PIuI
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