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Also, buy your new pieces from companies that work directly with producers, such as peopletree. co.uk and gossypium. co.uk.
Can I wear new clothes and be green? Lucy Siegle 2010
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Moreover, in order to raise funds for the rail, the local Government talked of granting the land to an English company for growing the highly prized gossypium arboreum.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I sent home specimens of this gossypium arboreum, which everywhere grows wild and which is chiefly used for wicks.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The cotton yielded by this tree should be used for the same therapeutic purposes as that of gossypium, and being of an exceedingly fine fiber it would give better results.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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The Dhak, _i_Butea frondosa, _/i_ and _i_Cochlospermum gossypium, _/i_ with the Kymore Hills in the background.p. 53
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The name of the genus that comprises all the species of cotton plants is gossypium.
Aboriginal America 1860
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Moreover, in order to raise funds for the rail, the local Government talked of granting the land to an English company for growing the highly prized gossypium arboreum.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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I sent home specimens of this gossypium arboreum, which everywhere grows wild and which is chiefly used for wicks.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Bauhinia, a Balfouria, groves of Cochlospermum gossypium, and several other trees, which I had seen in the scrubs of Comet River; among which was the arborescent Cassia with long pods.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Ironbark, Cochlospermum gossypium, and a small apocynaceous tree
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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