Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 720
ack yard in the city of Chicago. The seed was fromcotton cultivated in Oklahoma, and was planted early inApril. The yellow and pink blossoms remained but a dayor so, dropping off to reveal the small green bolls. Thesesteadily developed and, as the frost was late this year, at-tained something like… … COTTON GROWN IN CHICAGO. heretofore always killed the plant before it could fullydevelop. — R. Phillips, Pullman, 111. I suggest that our Northern readers try plant-ing cotton-seed in earth in a box or a flower-potin the house early in April, and then transplant-ing to the garden about the middle…
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