陈旧: old-fashioned...
患病: to fall ill...
人品: moral standing, moral quality, character, personality, appearance, looks (colloquial), bearing...
棉花: cotton...
大力: energetically, vigorously...
产物: product, result (of)...
培育: to train, to breed...
莲子: lotus seed...
条约: treaty, pact...
气象: meteorological feature, meteorology, atmosphere, ambience, scene...