Archive image from page 79 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 72 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. â ~<;V the British line and perhaps beyond. It blossoms in August, and the fiber does not fully develop until nearly or quite ripe, in September.' (A. E. Ball.) 'A. incarnata flourishes in low, moist grounds and by slow running streams, grow- ing annually from a perennial root some 5 to 7 feet high. It grows in clumps or stools, star
Archive image from page 79 of A descriptive catalogue of useful. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers descriptivecatal09dodg Year: 1897 72 USEFUL FIBER PLANTS OF THE WORLD. â ~<;V the British line and perhaps beyond. It blossoms in August, and the fiber does not fully develop until nearly or quite ripe, in September.' (A. E. Ball.) 'A. incarnata flourishes in low, moist grounds and by slow running streams, grow- ing annually from a perennial root some 5 to 7 feet high. It grows in clumps or stools, starting as soou as frosts leave, and seems to assert its position successfully with other shrubbery and weeds. In many respects the plant seems to resemble the ramie; the liber is soft and silky until the pi ant is quite mature, and rather difficult of handling by any present known process, but from experiments already made it promises to ' equal the ramie in fineness and value. The plant may be propa- gated by seed, but the root may be divided into from five to ten separate plant hills and produce stalks the same season. It should have an abundance of wa- ter to draw from, although plants 4 feet high have been noticed growing upon up- lands, but unless set thick- ly together the plant is shorter and more bushy.' (S. S. Boyce.) (See ) Undoubtedly A. incarnate promises better results than any of the indigenous spe- cies of bast fibers in the United States that have been considered. If it will thrive upon waste lands wbere no other crops will grow, it has to that extent an advantage over hemp, consideriug the strength of the fiber as fully equal to hemp. Recent cultural ex- periments under the direc- tion of the Department of Agriculture seem to show that the plant does not the uncultivated state. See The Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata. thrive on upland, nor do as well in cultivation as Rept. Fib. Inv. series, U. S. Dept. Ag., No. 6. Specimens.âMus. U. S. Dept. Ag.
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