Meanings of sea-island cotton in English

It was devoted to sea-island cotton in the 'thirties, but rice was added in the next decade.

What is meant by sea-island cotton?-forwhat reasons is cotton imported from Egypt and Peru into the United States?

All the sea islands produce the long staple cotton known as sea-island cotton, and before the war a very valuable variety.

When peace returned the culture was revived in a struggling way; but its vexations and vicissitudes made it promptly give place to sea-island cotton.

Looking down the bay on the right, was James Island, an irregular triangle of about seven miles, the whole island in cultivation with sea-island cotton.

The famous " sea-island cotton" comes from the islands along the coast, where large numbers of the freed negroes of South Carolina have been recently located.

The Sea-Island cotton that took the prize at the World's Fair in London was raised on this island.

And perhaps, I thought, some day, the Sea-Island silk may be as famous as the choice Sea-Island cotton.

Sea-island cotton would yield excellent crops if it were not that a caterpillar devours the young plants, so that its culture has almost ceased.

We may estimate the crop of Sea-Island cotton at about fifteen thousand bales, or six millions of pounds, and of rice about fifty million pounds.