MALLOWS.
CULTIVATION AND USE OF THE MALLOW AMONG THE ANCIENTS.--TESTIMONY OF
LATIN, GREEK, AND ATTIC WRITERS.
The earliest mention of Mallows is to be found in Job xxx.
4.--Varieties of the Mallow--Cultivation and use of the
Mallow--Testimony of ancient authors--Papias and Isidore’s mention of
Mallow cloth--Mallow cloth common in the days of Charlemagne--Mallow
shawls--Mallow cloths mentioned in the Periplus as exported from
India to Barygaza (Baroch)--Calidāsa the Indian dramatist, who
lived in the first century B. C.--His testimony--Wallich’s (the
Indian botanist) account--Mantles of woven bark, mentioned in the
Sacontăla of Calidāsa--Valcălas, or Mantles of woven bark,
mentioned in the Ramayana, a noted poem of ancient India--Sheets made
from trees--Ctesias’ testimony--Strabo’s account--Testimony of Statius
Cæcilius and Plautus, who lived 169 B. C. and 184 B. C.--Plautus’s
laughable enumeration of the analogy of trades--Beauty of garments of
Amorgos mentioned by Eupolis--Clearchus’s testimony--Plato mentions
linen shifts--Amorgine garments first manufactured at Athens in the
time of Aristophanes 191