COTTON. 
"Down South" are a great many cotton fields. 
Cotton was brought to the United States from China 
and other far-away places. It did not find its way here 
accidentally with other 
seeds, like the dandelions 
and Canada thistles, but 
was brought on purpose 
and carefully cultivated. 
A cotton field in early 
summer is rather a pretty 
sight. It is covered with 
light green little plants 
in straight rows • they 
have pretty leaves and 
yellowish flowers that 
soon turn red. These 
flowers are about the size 
of a morning-glory. 
In the fall a cotton field is much more interesting. 
Then the cotton plants are three or four feet high and 
have branched out into quite large bushes. The leaves 
have withered, but the bushes are covered with cotton 
bolls, or pods, out of which are bursting quantities of 
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Ripe cotton bolls. 
