black-seed

There are two predominant varieties: black-seed (poppyseed), or white-seed (sesame seed).

Matthew Yglesias » Monday Bagel Blogging 2007

It is true that black-seed cotton is cultivated to some extent along the coast from Georgetown, S.C., to St. Augustine, but a great part of it is of an inferior quality and staple, and brings in the market less than one-half the price of the real 'Sea

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

In the days of which I write horse-power was preferred to steam, and negro-power to both; and few planters of the fine black-seed cotton could be convinced that any

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Two kinds of this black-seed, or long-stapled cotton, grew in the Sea Islands and along the coast from Delaware to Georgia; but it could not be made to thrive away from the moist ocean climate.

Carl and the Cotton Gin Sara Ware Bassett 1920

For the black-seed or sea-island cotton, the churka, or roller gin, used in India from time immemorial, drawing the fiber slowly between a pair of rollers to push out the seeds, did the work imperfectly, but this churka was entirely useless for the green-seed variety, the fiber of which clung closely to the seed and would yield only to human hands.

The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

Two kinds of the black-seed or long-staple variety thrived in the sea-islands and along the coast from Delaware to Georgia, but only the hardier and more prolific green-seed or short-staple cotton could be raised inland.

The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

One hundred feet of onions, 25 feet of which may be potato or set onions, the remainder black-seed for summer and fall use.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

There are two kinds of cotton cultivated in Carolina: the black-seed, or long-staple, sometimes called sea-island, which grows best on rich low lands, near the coast, and is of a finer quality than can be got in any other part of the world; and the greenseed, or short-staple, called upland, generally, and which goes often in Britain by the name of Bowed Georgia: for what reason I know not.

The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson. 1847

Pizarro that these miscreants had no title to the soil that they infested -- that they were a perverse, illiterate, dumb, beardless, black-seed -- mere wild beasts of the forests and, like them, should either be subdued or exterminated.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

All which circumstances plainly convinced the righteous followers of Cortes and Pizarro, that these miscreants had no title to the soil that they infested — that they were a perverse, illiterate, dumb, beardless, bare-bottomed black-seed — mere wild beasts of the forests, and like them should either be subdued or exterminated.

A History of New York 1809