The slopes on either side of the road were green with tall flax plants.

The flax plant is one of the plants humans have grown and used.

Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant.

It is interesting to note that linen, an important "support" for oil painting (see below) also comes from the flax plant.

The symptoms were wilting and dying flax plants during the growing season.

By 1900, the flax plants were dead or dying.

The glass factory and the flax plant were put into operation.

Many acres of land are still covered with flax plants.

The convicts had difficulty in making things from the flax plants.

In the 1920s, the Penitentiary created a flax plant which employed more than half of its inmates.