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Ascclepias-Milkweed It is through his son Isidore that we know about one type of project his father worked on : “He was able to extract from the stems of Syria Asclepias (Apocyn or cotton-wool plant) a tow that properly prepared and carded had a whiteness and a fineness so close to cotton that it was difficult to distinguish one from the other. This weed even though it originated from a hot country is so well acclimated in France ,(I do not know if it resists to northern France winters), that one shoot suffices to spread indefinively ; its running roots grow shoots everywhere,in the alleys of a garden ,between the cobble stones etc. I still own a child stocking that my mother knitted with this indigenous cotton.“ |
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