Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Another New Plant. [ARTICLE]

Another New Plant.

A curious plant has been discovered In Wisconsin, which produces a kind of cotton and flax from the same stalk. An exchange says: It has already heen woven into fabrics, and, as any article that will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good paper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring and cut in the fall and winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, and it will yield three or four tons to the acre. From a single root that was transplanted last spring grew twenty large stocks, with three hundred and sixtv-five pods containing the cotton, at least sixty seeds in each. From this root were obtained seven ounces of pure cotton, and oyer a pound of flax. It is a very heavy jilant, and grows from six to seven feet