See also:

• SUNN, or INDIA HEMP (Crotalaria juncea)

SUNN, or See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

INDIA See also:

• HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

HEMP (Crotalaria juncea)  , a plant which is a native of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and See also:

• CEYLON

Ceylon . It frequently receives other names, e.g. false See also:

• HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp, See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown hemp, Bombay hemp, See also:

• JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR

Jubbulpore hemp, See also:

• SANA (Send'a)

sana, &c . The plant is an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual, requires a See also:

• LIGHT

light See also:

• SOIL

soil, and is easily cultivated . The ground is ploughed two or three times, and from 8o to 10o lb of See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed are sown broadcast . The seedlings quickly appear above the See also:

• SURFACE

surface, but it is about four months before the plant begins to See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower . Sometimes the seed is sown in See also:

• OCTOBER

October for the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, and sometimes in May or See also:

• JUNE

June for the summer crop . When the seeds are sown in May, the See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright yellow See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers appear in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, when the plant may be gathered . It is not unusual, however, to defer this operation until the seed is ripe, especially if a fibre of See also:

• GREAT

great strength is desired . The stems may be pulled up, as is the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case with See also:

• FLAX

flax, or they may be cut down . Different opinions exist as to whether the stems should be steeped immediately after they are pulled, or See also:

• LEFT

left to dry and then steeped: in the wet districts they are taken See also:

• DIRECT

direct to the See also:

• WATER

water . Since the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root ends are much thicker and coarser than the tops, it is See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place the bundles erect, and to immerse the root ends in about a See also:

• FOOT

foot of water . Afterwards the bundles are totally immersed in the ponds, and in two to four days the fibre should be ready for stripping .

There is the same danger of over-retting and underretting as in other See also:

• FIBRES
• FIBRES (or FIBERS, in American spelling; from Lat. fibra, apparently connected either with filum, thread, or findere, to split)

fibres, but when the retting is See also:

• COMPLETE

complete, the workmen enter the ponds, take up a handful of stems, and swish them upon the surface of the water until the fibre becomes loose . After the fibre has been peeled off it is hung over poles to dry . When intended for See also:

• CLOTH

cloth it is combed in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to remove any See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• MATTER

matter, but if it is intended to be used for rope or similar purposes, the fibres are simply separated and the woody matter combed out with the fingers . The fibre is of a light See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, and has an See also:

• AVERAGE

average length of 3 to 4 ft . It is extensively used for rope and cordage and also for See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper-making in its native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, but it has made little, if any, progress in this country . According to See also:

• WARDEN

Warden, the fibre was tried in See also:

• DUNDEE
• DUNDEE, JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT (c. 1649-1689)

Dundee in the beginning of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . About 1820 the See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price of India hemp See also:

• BAGGING

bagging, as quoted in the Dundee Advertiser, was lid. per yard below hemp bagging, and ;d. a yard below See also:

• TOW

tow warp bagging . It is stated in See also:

• SIR

Sir G . See also:

• WATT, JAMES (1736-1819)

Watt's See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of the Economic Products of India that a See also:

• CORD (derived through the Fr. corde, from the Lat. chorda, Gr. xop(5rt, the string of a musical instrument)

cord 8 in. in See also:

• SIZE

size of best See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg hemp See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke with 14 tons, 8 cwt . 1 qr., while a similar rope of See also:

• SUNN, or INDIA HEMP (Crotalaria juncea)

sunn only gave way with 15 tons, 7 cwt. i qr . Roxburgh's experiments with See also:

• ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899)

ropes made from this and other fibres appear on p . 607 of the above See also:

• WORK

work .

The ropes were tested in the fresh See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and also after having been immersed in water for See also:

• ITO, HIROBUMI, PRINCE (1841-1909)

Ito days . His results, reproduced in the following table, show the comparison . Average See also:

• WEIGHT

Weight at which each sort of See also:

• LINE

line broke . Names of the See also:

• PLANTS

Plants . When fresh . After Ile days' macera- tion . See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White . Tanned . Tarred . White . Tanned.' Tarred . See also:

• ENGLISH

English hemp, a piece of 10 _ Rotten, as was also new tiller-rope J 5 the English See also:

• LOG (a word of uncertain etymological origin,possibly onomatopoeic; the New English Dictionary rejects the derivation from Norwegian lag, a fallen tree)

log-line .

Hemp from the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East 74 139 ± All rotten . IndiaCompany's See also:

• FARM

farm 45 near See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta . . } 68 69 ----- Rotten 51 65 6o Sunn hemp of the See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben- galese See also:

• LUTE (Arabic al'ud, " the wood "; Fr. luth; Ital. liuto; Span. laud; Ger. Laute; Dut. luit)

lute (Bunghi-pat) . ---- 4o - 49 ------ 68 0 69 6i It would appear that, after maceration, neither See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary hemp nor sunn hemp can compare with jute for strength .