Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . o this is added a seventhdivision to include short-staple varieties of a characterintermediate between any other two groups. An eighthgroup differs from all the others because its memberspossess a long staple. Group 1. — Cluster type. Group 2. — Semicluster type. Group 3. — Rio Grande type, of which the Peterkin isan example. Group -i. — The early varieties of the King type. Group 5. — The Big-boll type. Group 6. — The Long-limbed tj^pe. Group 7. — Intermediate varieties. Group 8. — Long-staple Lpland varieties. The fines of separation betwee
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . o this is added a seventhdivision to include short-staple varieties of a characterintermediate between any other two groups. An eighthgroup differs from all the others because its memberspossess a long staple. Group 1. — Cluster type. Group 2. — Semicluster type. Group 3. — Rio Grande type, of which the Peterkin isan example. Group -i. — The early varieties of the King type. Group 5. — The Big-boll type. Group 6. — The Long-limbed tj^pe. Group 7. — Intermediate varieties. Group 8. — Long-staple Lpland varieties. The fines of separation between these groups are notdistinct; one group gradually merges into another. 257. Cluster group. — The varieties belonging here areeasilj distinguished, (I) by the extreme shortness of thefruit limbs in the middle and upper parts of the plant(Fig. ), and f2) by the tendency of the bolls to grow inclusters of two or three (Fig. 134). The few base limbsare usually long. The plant in general possesses an ap- 284 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS. Fig. 133. — A Cotton Plant of the Cluster Type. COTTOy VAniETIES 285
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