Part 4 (2/2)

In tropical regions, where it is largely cultivated

Of what form is the fruit?

It is somewhat like a cucumber, about three inches round, and of a yellowish red color It contains from ten to forty seeds, each covered with a little rind, of a violet color; when this is stripped off, the kernel, of which they make the chocolate, is visible

How do theyit ater orchocolate, so that itwater upon it

CHAPTER III

CALICO, COTTON, CLOTH, WOOL, BAIZE, LINEN, FLAX, HEMP, DIAPER, HOLLAND, CANVAS, AND FLANNEL

What is Calico?

A kind of printed cotton cloth, of different colors

From what place did it take its name?

From Calicut, a city on the coast of Malabar, where it was first land, and many other countries

What is Cotton?

A downy or woolly substance, enclosed in the pod, or seed-vessel, of the cotton-plant The commercial classification of cotton is determined--1, by cleanliness or freedom from sand, dry leaf, and other impurities; 2, by absence of color; both subject also to character of staple, length, and strength and fineness of fibre These together detereneral classifications, long-stapled and short-stapled Of the former the best is the sea island cotton of the United States The _short staple cotton_, grows in thestaple is cultivated in the lower country near the sea, and on the islands near the coasts

How is it cultivated?

The seeds are sown in ridges h or hoe; when the plants are mature, the pods open, and the cotton is picked frorow, and for as it used?

In Egypt, where it was used by the priests and sacrificers, for a very singular kind of garment worn by them alone

In what manufacture is it now used?

It is woven into muslins, dimities, cloths, calicoes, &c; and is also joined with silks and flax, in the co with the needle