Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 123. — A Cotton Plaxt. Showing the growth of two branches from each of certain nodes onthe main stem. 252 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS. Fig. 124. — Cotton on whioh the ^EGET.^.TIVE issuppressed at every node except -where the two lowest(Vegetative) Branches branch, and the other a vegetati^-e or so-called sterilebranch. At many of the nodes one or the other of thesebranches fails to develop conspicuously, and is reitresentedmerely tiy a tiny shoot or bud (Fig. 124.) If a \egeta- COTTOX STIiUCTURE 253

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