Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) : a practical treatise on the culture of hemp for seed and fiber, with a sketch of the history and nature of the hemp plant / by S. S.Boyce.
- Boyce, Sidney Smith.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) : a practical treatise on the culture of hemp for seed and fiber, with a sketch of the history and nature of the hemp plant / by S. S.Boyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 53 / 136 (page 35)…ies were nearly the same and of the common European character, grow- ing quite irregularly four to seven feet in New England, and five to ten feet in Virginia and southward. Hemp was cultivated in New England as early as 1629, while in 1662 Virginia awarded bounties for hemp - culture and manufacture, and i...
- Found on image 53 / 136 (page 35)…four to seven feet in New England, and five to ten feet in Virginia and southward. Hemp was cultivated in New England as early as 1629, while in 1662 Virginia awarded bounties for hemp - culture and manufacture, and imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it. Up to 1847-50 the clothing of every bla...
- Found on image 53 / 136 (page 35)…e of a stout hempen cloth of light color, largely made upon the plantations, but more generally by the other colonists of the more north- ern states, Virginia, jMaryland, Pennsylvania and 3G New Jersey. The establisliiiient of a cotton mill at Augusta, Georgia, in 1848, commenced the weav- ing of cotton into...
- Found on image 54 / 136 (page 36)…h in the mountain hamlets. In 1792, 3,000 bolts of light hem]) canvas were made by one firm in Boston, worth $13 per bolt. In 1790, 2,729 families in Virginia produced 315,000 yards of hemp fabrics. The product of hemp and flax manufactures' in the United States in 1810 was over 21,000,000 yards. In 1765 Ed...
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![(’IIai’Ti:k IV EARLY VULTURE OE HEME IX AMERICA llKMi* was one of the first i)laiits under eultiva- tion anion<^ the early colonists of America, and one of which most strenuous efforts were made to extend the production. There is no ]-ecord of the sources from whence the seed was obtained, and only sur- mises can be made as to varieties iii cultivation by colonists from different parts of Europe, who settled at different points from New England to Georgia. It is quite likelj^ that the varieties were nearly the same and of the common European character, grow- ing quite irregularly four to seven feet in New England, and five to ten feet in Virginia and southward. Hemp was cultivated in New England as early as 1629, while in 1662 Virginia awarded bounties for hemp - culture and manufacture, and imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it. Up to 1847-50 the clothing of every black woman in the South was made up of one piece, fitting from the neck downward to the calf of the leg, with sleeves to the elbow, and held bv a belt around the waist; while every black man’s clothing was of two pieces, both made of a stout hempen cloth of light color, largely made upon the plantations, but more generally by the other colonists of the more north- ern states, Virginia, jMaryland, Pennsylvania and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28086211_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
