Drawing the deep moisture up to the plant is what enables cotton plants to survive the late July, August and early September ...

The cotton plant was one of several organisms encased in a mini biosphere weighing just 2.6 kilograms (5.7 lbs) with a pressure of 1 atmosphere which was aboard the lander.

THIS latest addition to the Library of Useful Stories, written by the director of the Textile School at Bolton, gives a clearly expressed and popular account of the chief cultivated species of the ...