. Botany for high schools. Botany. ECONOMIC OR USEFUL PLANTS 413 the red maple, the silver maple, box elder, etc., are planted for ornament and shade. 584. The linden family (Tiliacex).—Our well-known repre- sentative is the bass-wood or linden. The American linden (Tilia americana) is a forest tree producing a soft white wood occurring from New Brunswick to Georgia and Manitoba. The w^hite bass-wood, or " linn " tree as it is called in the South, is a forest tree from New York to Florida and west to Tennessee. It is sometimes called bee-tree " and is noted for the fine grade of
. Botany for high schools. Botany. ECONOMIC OR USEFUL PLANTS 413 the red maple, the silver maple, box elder, etc., are planted for ornament and shade. 584. The linden family (Tiliacex).—Our well-known repre- sentative is the bass-wood or linden. The American linden (Tilia americana) is a forest tree producing a soft white wood occurring from New Brunswick to Georgia and Manitoba. The w^hite bass-wood, or " linn " tree as it is called in the South, is a forest tree from New York to Florida and west to Tennessee. It is sometimes called bee-tree " and is noted for the fine grade of honey made from the nectar in the flowers. The bast (paragraph 98) of the bass-wood trees forms long and stout fibers. The bast, or Russian bast as it is sometimes called in certain trees, is used for making coarse mats. Jute " is the bast from certain tropical linden plants (Corchorus olitarius). 585. The mallow family (Malvaceae) includes the holly- hocks, mallows, rose of sharon {Hibiscus), cotton, etc. The. Fig. 395- Picking cotton. From Bureau Plant Industry. cotton plant is cultivated for the fiber on the seed. Cotton \{Gossypiuni) is the most important fiber plant known. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Atkinson, George Francis, 1854-1918. New York, H. Holt and Company
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