. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAP. I.] STRUCTURE OF THE FIBRE. 35 is a continuous liber cell of pure cellulose, similar to those which occur at the outside of the cambium-layer of dicotyle- dons, or the cells which form the outer part of the fibro- vascular bundles of inonocotyledons, and which are also found in th
. Cotton: its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market and as an article of commerce, also the manufacture of cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal and fertilizers, with especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States. Cotton; Cotton growing. CHAP. I.] STRUCTURE OF THE FIBRE. 35 is a continuous liber cell of pure cellulose, similar to those which occur at the outside of the cambium-layer of dicotyle- dons, or the cells which form the outer part of the fibro- vascular bundles of inonocotyledons, and which are also found in the branches of those containing no spiral structures ; and the inner or thickening layers of the tube consist of second- ary cellular deposits u})on this outer epidermic layer, or else are formed bv a uradual thickenino- of that laver itself arising. Fig. 8. Microscopic Yie-W of Cottoq Fibres. from the consolidation of the protoplasm or juices which sup- ply nutriment, and whicli, by in some measure preventing the collapse of the thin outer sheath, strengthen and render it more elastic and expansible. The extreme outer layer appears to be formed of a continuous membrane, since no power which I have been able to apply to the microscope has enabled me. 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 Brooks, Christopher Parkinson, 1866-1909. New York, Spon & Chamberlain; London, E. & F. N. Spon, limited; [etc. , etc. ]
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