我国现在种植的棉花几乎全部属于陆地棉。我国最早的陆地棉即从美国引入。什么时候引入?最早种在什么地方?四十多年前有人报导说,清朝湖广总督张之洞于1898年首先从美国引入陆地棉在湖北试种。此说辗转流传,广为引用,直至如今。现经查考,证明此说不确。原来早在1890年时,上海已有种陆地棉的记载。据清朝光绪中叶上海人黄宗坚著《种棉实验说》中写道:“陆春江观察宰吾邑时,曾劝民种黑核洋棉……”。而且他自己“历试有年”,认为洋棉衣分高,胜过当地的土棉。洋棉即指外来的陆地棉种,与我国历史 Almost all cotton grown in China now belongs to Upland cotton. Our earliest Upland cotton was introduced from the United States. When was it introduced and where was the earliest planted? It was reported more than 40 years ago that Chang Chih-tung, governor of Huguang in the Qing Dynasty, first experimentally introduced Upland cotton from the United States in Hubei in 1898. This is said to be circulated, widely cited, until now. Now after examination, that this is not true. The original as early as 1890, Shanghai has a record of Upland cotton. According to Huang Zongjian, a man from the middle of the Qing dynasty in the Guangxu period, wrote in his experiment on cotton farming: “When Lu Chuanjiang observed Jaiwuyi, he persuaded the people to breed black cotton.” And he himself “calendar year”, that the foreign cotton clothing points high, better than the local soil cotton. Foreign cotton refers to alien cotton land, and our history