American School of Correspondence · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 24
-five or eighty days after planting the IJossomappears, and the plant continues to blossom for some time. Theseblossoms are at first a creamy white; the second day they turnpink or red, and the third day a purplish blue, at which timethey diop off. After the dropping of the blossom the seed-pod,or… … Fig. 1. 15 COTTON fibf:r. three to five cells, divided bj walls of membrane. (See Fig. 1.)These cells contain from six to eleven seeds e.icb, or from twenty-eight to thirty-six in each boll. Each seed is covered with thecotton fibers, which are attached at one end in the same manneras the hair on…
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