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Title: Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi. Embracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Mississippi. State Geologist Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862
Subjects: Geology Agriculture Natural history
Publisher: (Jackson) E. Barksdale, State Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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AGRICULTURE. 139 The popular name Cotton, from the ItaUan Cotone, issaid to be derived from its resemblance to the downwhich adheres to the quince, termed by the ItaliansCotogni. Many varieties of the plant are described, and amongthem the perennial or tree cotton, which grows sponta-neously in Brazil and Peru. The annual herbaceousvarieties, only, are those cultivated in the United States. The average height of the plant in land of mediumquality, is about five feet. In a very fertile soil, it at-tains to double that height, whilst in one exhausted andsterile it becomes quite a dwarf. Its appearance somewhat resembles that of the ocraplant, but is much more branched, and the leaves lessin size and of more uniform shape. The branches are long and jointed, occasionally bifur-cated, and bearing at each joint a boll or capsule con-taining the wool and seed. Each boll is accompaniedby a broad indented leaf, springing from the same jointof the branch, resting upon a footstalk three or fouri

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