JUTE.
A relative of our bass-wood, native of Bengal, and grown successfully in China and Japan, where labor is very cheap, yields the jute fibre out of which gunnysacks are made. The plant grows to fifteen feet high, a slender, unbranched reed that is cut at flowering time, retted, washed, and whipped, the fibre baled and shipped to twine factories. Jute rugs and carpets do not last like
hemp.
China jute is made from a plant that has come into our gardens as a weed we call Indian mallow and velvet-leaf.