As the blossoms die they are replaced by the young bolls, or pods, which contain the seeds.
At first cotton-picking was interesting, the fluffy bolls looking like artificial roses and the stray blossoms strangely shaped and delicately pink.
In the autumn you see the pod or boll which contains the cotton.
The bolls are placed on racks, and are sun-dried, after which the husks are removed by hand.
The top of the cotton stalk glimmered with a purple bloom, but down between the rows, among the dying leaves, the first bolls were opening.
In this investigation, quantification of fibre quality in individual bolls revealed wide variations in fibre maturity.
One must remember, however, that the green bolls were of large size and that a large proportion of them must have been approaching maturity.
This comparison focused on the phenological cycle of cotton plants, especially the flowering stages: fruiting onset and effective flowering time (period when bolls are initiated).
