Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . ll. The leaves aresimilar to those of theRio Grande group. Theseeds are usually smalland covered with fuzz ofvarious shades. A large Fig. 137.— .V Cotton Plant of the proportion of the Ijlooms K ^^^^ on varieties of this type are marked with red spots near the inner base of each King and its sjaionyms and related varieties consti-tute the earliest of the commonly grown American uplandcottons. The chief faults of these varieties are the small size ofboll, the short fiber, and the tendency of the seed cottonto fall from the Ijurs. 261
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . ll. The leaves aresimilar to those of theRio Grande group. Theseeds are usually smalland covered with fuzz ofvarious shades. A large Fig. 137.— .V Cotton Plant of the proportion of the Ijlooms K ^^^^ on varieties of this type are marked with red spots near the inner base of each King and its sjaionyms and related varieties consti-tute the earliest of the commonly grown American uplandcottons. The chief faults of these varieties are the small size ofboll, the short fiber, and the tendency of the seed cottonto fall from the Ijurs. 261. The Big-boll group. — The one characteristic serv-ing to identify the varieties of this group is the large sizeof the boll. While the size of boll ^aries with con-ditions, an arbitrary division must be made somewhere;hence, in this scheme of classification, bolls are consideredlarge if sixty-eight or fewer mature bolls yield one ]50imd ofseed cotton. This group may be further subdivided intothe following overlapj^ing subdivisions : —. j-jQ i3><. —A Cotton PLA^,-T of the Big-boll Stoem-peoof Z89 290 SOUTHERN FIELD CHOPS (1) Storm-proof big-boll cottons (Fig. 138); (2) Big-boll varieties having plants of the shape thatcharacterizes the semicluster group; and (3) Ordinary big-boll varieties having neither markedstorm resistance nor semicluster shape of Examples of storm-proof big-boll cottons are Triumph,Rowden, and Texas Storm-proof. Among the semiclusterbig-boll varieties are some strains of Truitt, Bancroft, andindividual plants of a nmiaber of big-boll varieties. Among big-boll varieties of the third subdivision arethe widely grown Truitt and Russell, the latter havinggreen seed. Here, too, belong Cleveland and Cook, twovery i)roductive varieties, the bolls of which arc sometimesscarcely large enough to admit these varieties into the big-boll class, where they usually belong. 262. The Long-limbed group. — In this class the plantsgrow to l
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