Project Gutenberg 2013-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 541 Lee, Henry 1826 1888 The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary The fable and its interpretation -- The history of cotton and its introduction into Europe. Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant" by Henry Lee is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores the mythical legend of the "Vegetable Lamb," which was believed to be a hybrid of plant and animal that bore living lambs as fruit. Lee aims to trace the origins of this fable and connect it to the actual cotton plant, elucidating the misconceptions that prevailed in the Middle Ages. At the start of the book, the author introduces the fable of the "Vegetable Lamb," providing detailed descriptions of this mythological entity as well as its various iterations, including its depiction as both fruit-bearing tree-lambs and living lambs tethered to the ground. Lee discusses how these stories evolved and propagated, starting from ancient historical accounts through the interpretations of medieval writers, leading to what he argues is a distortion of a true botanical phenomenon—namely, the cotton plant. Through this initial chapter, he establishes a foundation for analyzing the interplay between truth, folklore, and the evolution of the myths surrounding the origins of cotton in Western Europe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43343/43343-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 57.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Plants -- Folklore Cotton -- History QK Text Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 276630 2025-08-17T12:16:13.503269 text/html 255469 2024-10-23T17:25:01 text/html 1267917 2025-08-17T12:16:20.032334 application/epub+zip 1271164 2025-08-17T12:16:15.141280 application/epub+zip 160856 2025-08-17T12:16:14.113302 application/epub+zip 1463212 2025-08-17T12:16:23.280290 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1349973 2025-08-17T12:16:18.887223 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 231679 2022-09-19T18:22:40.255695 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 213478 2025-08-17T12:16:12.690280 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 193376 2024-10-23T17:25:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17762 2025-08-17T12:16:23.433203 application/rdf+xml 16541 2025-08-17T12:16:14.224245 image/jpeg 2450 2025-08-17T12:16:14.168287 image/jpeg 1149117 2025-08-17T12:16:13.561437 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia