. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 290 A TEXT-BOOK OP BOTANY the most valuable variety, reaching its greatest perfection along the coast region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The upland cotton is cultivated over a wider area, but is by no means of so fine a grade. In 1900, the greatest cotton-growing States, in the order of the number of acres under cultivation, were Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- sippi, and South Carolina. There are valuable by-products from the cotton plant, the seeds yielding the well-known cotton-seed oil. Flax.—The fiber of flax forms linen
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. 290 A TEXT-BOOK OP BOTANY the most valuable variety, reaching its greatest perfection along the coast region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The upland cotton is cultivated over a wider area, but is by no means of so fine a grade. In 1900, the greatest cotton-growing States, in the order of the number of acres under cultivation, were Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- sippi, and South Carolina. There are valuable by-products from the cotton plant, the seeds yielding the well-known cotton-seed oil. Flax.—The fiber of flax forms linen thread and cloth, and the extent of its use is second only to that of cot- ton. The species used is a small annual (Linum) native about the Mediterranean, and cultivated from the very ear- liest times (Fig. 286). The fibers are found in the stems, which are subjected to a series of processes for separating the fibers from the other parts. The oil j'ielded by the seeds is the well-known linseed oil, used in paints, varnishes, etc. Russia is the greatest flax- growing country in the world; but for excellence of fiber Bel- gium excels, where it is used in the. manufacture of the famous Brussels lace. In the United States flax has been long cultivated in many States for its oil; but only recently has its cultivation for fiber at- tracted attention, and that chiefly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Fig. 286.—The flax Baillon. -After. 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 Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton
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