. Country life reader . Cotton ready for picking. THE COTTON-PLANT The name cotton is simply another form of the Frenchword coton, which is in turn derived from kutn^ the Ara-bian name for cotton. The cotton-plant belongs to the mallow family, and isclosely related to the milkweed and the hollyhock. Theplant itself is a shrub which grows from three to sevenfeet in height. It consists of a central stem, main branches,and smaller limbs which bear the flowers and fruit. Theflower buds, on account of their shape, are known assquares. Within a few weeks after they appear, thesesquares unfold in the
. Country life reader . Cotton ready for picking. THE COTTON-PLANT The name cotton is simply another form of the Frenchword coton, which is in turn derived from kutn^ the Ara-bian name for cotton. The cotton-plant belongs to the mallow family, and isclosely related to the milkweed and the hollyhock. Theplant itself is a shrub which grows from three to sevenfeet in height. It consists of a central stem, main branches,and smaller limbs which bear the flowers and fruit. Theflower buds, on account of their shape, are known assquares. Within a few weeks after they appear, thesesquares unfold in the form of large white flowers; andwhen, a few days later, these flowers fall off, they leave be- 169 I70 COUNTRY LIFE READER hind them small green pods, or bolls. After a monthsgrowth, the bolls turn brown, and finally split open in fromthree to five divisions, each containing from thirty to fiftyblack seeds with Knt or cotton attached to them. A sin-gle cotton-plant sometimes produces several hundred bolls. The cotton g
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