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Cotton
Pictures by Walter Müller
A yellow cotton blossom opens among green leaves, buds and seed pods in this plate from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen of 1887, drawn by Walther Otto Müller, with 'Welcome little one' inside. This species of cotton gives Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, the longest and softest fibres of all. For a family welcoming a new baby.
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Inside, it says
WELCOME LITTLE ONE
On the back
From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / COTTON / Gossypium barbadense / Cotton is a seed hair: soft white fibres that help the seeds travel. This species gives Sea Island and Egyptian cotton, the longest and softest fibres of all. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.
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