. Cotton and cotton manufacture . Cotton Bolls. PART ONE THE RAW MATERIAL ?%:^^\ .4.,, *». o I CHAPTER I The Cotton Plant The word, Cotton, is said to be derived from an Arabic word,Qutun, originally meaning flax; and the botanical name of the plant,Gossypium. signifying the fleece worn, was first found in the writingsof Pliny, and is derived from the Sanskrit. Thus, in the mere originsof the collo(]uial and scientific designations of the plant, we have ampleproof of its anti(|uity. The cotton plant belongs to the mallow family and is a native of thetropics. The genus has a great many botanica

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. Cotton and cotton manufacture . Cotton Bolls. PART ONE THE RAW MATERIAL ?%:^^\ .4.,, *». o I CHAPTER I The Cotton Plant The word, Cotton, is said to be derived from an Arabic word,Qutun, originally meaning flax; and the botanical name of the plant,Gossypium. signifying the fleece worn, was first found in the writingsof Pliny, and is derived from the Sanskrit. Thus, in the mere originsof the collo(]uial and scientific designations of the plant, we have ampleproof of its anti(|uity. The cotton plant belongs to the mallow family and is a native of thetropics. The genus has a great many botanical varieties, all of which,in the wild state, are perennial, but under cultivation tend to becomeannual. One variety, Gossypium Arboreum, which is found chiefly inMexico and Brazil, attains a height of over fifteen feet. This tree cotton,however, has not been extensively cultivated because of the obvious ex-pense of picking. Of the herbaceous varieties the most commonlyknown are the American and the long-staple Egyptian. G. Barbadense,known as Sea Island cotton, is another long staple v

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