"Cotton plant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can see no more difficulty in this, than in the planter improving his varieties of the cotton plant.—C. D. 1858. ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various
... live-oak is growing—I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto. I pass rude sea-headlands, and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland; O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp! The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness and barrenness—the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss, The piney odour and the ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman |
