Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-26
WONDERFUL COTTON.
Aiieged Important Discovery in FIori
ua-A Plant which Produces Cotton Su.
Perlor to Sea Island and which Re.
quires no Ginning.

SAVANNAH, October 25.-Editoy Mornfn,
-'s"S Inc accompanying communication
concerning remarkable new kind of cotton
was sent to us to day by our New York cor.
respondents, with the request for further
particulars. They suggest that we mi0bt
learn something on the subject from some
FLORIDA friend; and as your paper circulstes
widely in that State we think we cannot do
oetter than to suggest your publishing the
account to give the matter that pubjicitv
Its Importance unquestionably deserves.
We rather think the discoveries OF this
az ~ uiar ana valuable plant are inclined to
do all In their power to 6Isconrace its Sano ~
erSl dissemination until they succeed in de-
Veioplng IL to the point that when the enor-
nous cocoanut boil bursts open IL win
reveal, neatly incased within its folds a
large. handsome, well spun ball of warn.
DIt II we are wrong we cheerfully Law our
serves open to correction. Yours truly,
The following is the communication al
~ MADRAS, 10Th September, 1882.
MeSSrs. --, Nea0 York:
DEAR sIRs-We enclose an extract from
one OF tne last home papers giving de.
scrIplon OF new cotton plant in Florida.
ana snail be much obliged If you can give
Us any further information about it.
Under what conditions and in what lati-
tuues does 1t grow best? What soil is best
suited 20 lt, and what height above the seaY
Can you OBTAIN any seed for Us, and IL vou
eau, Will you be SO good as to send us enough
10 plant an acre with as an experiment.?
We are, dear sirs, yours faithfully,
EXTRACT
"a NEW COTTON PLANT.--A new variety
OF cotton plant has been brought to light In
America, where great things are expected
OF 1t. 1t'is the product Of the hybri1ization
OF the cotton plant with the common okra-
Dotn OF Them indigenous to Florids. where
the new plant has been reared. The hybrid.
which attains height of about two feet
has the stalk of the okra and the foliage
Oh the cotton, but the flower and
fruit are said to be quite unlike
either parent The flower, OF which each
plant only bears one, ia as large as the mag
nolia, and nearly as fragrant. 1t, like the
cotton bloom, is white for several davs
aIter IL opens later 1t becomes pale pink,
ana nnalIy red, when 1t drops, disclosing a
wonderful boll.". For about ten days the
DOLL resembles that of The cotton plant.
when its growth, "as If by magic" in.
creases wonderfully, and it finally reaches
tne size OF large cocoanut. Then the lint
or cotton down appears, of which each boil
produces about two pounds of a fine long
staple, superior to the sea island cotton.
The great adVant ge which this cotton pos
sesses is the case with which the boJIs
can be gathered, an unskilled picker
being able to collect 600 or ZOO pounds
weight in d day. A still further
advantage consists in the absence, or rather
me peculiar disposition, OF the seeds, which,
instead Of being mixed with the lint. lie at
the bottom of the boil. There are only
Tour or five OF these seeds, which resemble |
persimmon seed, and can be easily shaken |
out as the boil is plucked, so that the cotton |
requires no ginning. The saving In expense |
occasioned by the reduction of labor both |
In picking and ginning are likely to cause |
this hybrid cotton to supplant the COS !
syplum, even II its produce were not of the |
superior quality attributed to it'