. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 330 The World's Commercial Products. Pholo I'f 1'tttntint ttnj I'ttUntine SHipriNc; COTTON AT NEW ORLEANS Africa cotton grows wild, iiiul is used by tlir iKitivts to inakc cloths. Tlic cotton pliiiit l)cloiij4s lM>tuniciilly to tlif Mallow Order or Im loM'ly ri'latcil to tlif ordlnarv wild and to the hollyiiocks of our gar
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 330 The World's Commercial Products. Pholo I'f 1'tttntint ttnj I'ttUntine SHipriNc; COTTON AT NEW ORLEANS Africa cotton grows wild, iiiul is used by tlir iKitivts to inakc cloths. Tlic cotton pliiiit l)cloiij4s lM>tuniciilly to tlif Mallow Order or Im loM'ly ri'latcil to tlif ordlnarv wild and to the hollyiiocks of our gardens. Most of the sptcic's arc slunbs or small trees, and m warm countries are per- iimial. A winter, how- e\ei, kills the plants, and in the L'nited States new plants have to l)c raist'd from seed cNcry year. This pra< - tice is also carried out when cotton is cnlti- better results than when vated in countries which have no winter, as it fr<(iuently f,'i\( the plants are allowed to grow for several Cotton plants have large yellow, white, or red llowers. not unlike rather small hollyhock flowers, and each flower forms a cajjsule or " ; When fully ripe the boll splits into three pieces, and the white (oiiony , consisting of a numtx'r of seeds, each basing firmly attached to it a dense coMiing of line hairs, which are the raw cotton of connuerce. COTTOX-PKODUCIX(; COUNTRIES Cotton is distinctly a warm-i Innate crop, and a glance at the map of the cotton-growiiig regions of the world shows us that it is grown in almost every part of the between about 4(»" N. and i-SO" S. of the Kcpiator. In .America tlie principal regions are the south-eastern part of the United States, Central .\inenca, the West Indies, Hra/il, .Mexico, ami I'rru. In Europe small cotton areas are loiiiul scattered around the Mediterraiieai; in Si),un, Italy, Turkey, and dreoci'. India. , Japan, l',ahd .\si,i .Minor uw in th' n- order t
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