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The sun flower as a type of flowering plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890

The Sun Flower as a Type of Flowering Plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890, Page 67

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64. There are numerous varieties of the common sunflower in cultivation, the so-called double form being one in which the ordinary tubular florets in the centre become spreading and "ligulate" like those at the circumference. The seeds, or more strictly speaking, the fruits, contain much oil for which the plant is cultivated in Russia, the oil is a good drying oil nearly equal to that of linseed, it is also used in the
 
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