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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Story of the Cotton Plant
Frederick Wilkinson
161 pages~3 hr 12 min read35 chapters$4.99
A single boll of white fiber clothed empires and moved armies. Frederick Wilkinson follows cotton from the living plant through its long history into field, gin, and mill, explaining how a humble shrub became one of the world's great crops. Botany, geography, and industry braided into one thread. Trace the plant behind the cloth on your back.
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35 chapters
- 1THE LIBRARY OF USEFUL STORIES
- 2THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT
- 3FREDERICK WILKINSON, F. G. S.
- 4WITH THIRTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1912
- 6Copyright, 1898, 1902,
- 7Printed in the United States of America
- 8PREFACE.
- 9CONTENTS.
- 10LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 11THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT.
- 12CHAPTER I.
- 13ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND CHIEF CULTIVATED SPECIES OF COTTON PLANT.
- 14CHAPTER II.
- 15COTTON-PLANT DISEASES AND PESTS.
- 16CHAPTER III.
- 17CULTIVATION OF THE COTTON PLANT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
- 18CHAPTER IV.
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