SEVERE CASES OF SMALLING DISEASE OF COTTON 



Figure 15 Two diseased plants of Meade cotton at St. Michel, Haiti, showing 

 extreme conditions of abnormal growth, with leaves and floral buds abruptly reduced 

 to verv small size. Note that the abnormal growth is definitely different in the two 

 plants," and that both plants had produced normal stalks and leaves in the earlier stages. 

 All of the later growth is extremelv contracted, with very short internodes and ex- 

 cessive numbers of diminutive leaves and floral buds. Abnormal branching is a feature 

 of this disease, notably in the right-hand plant, with many small shoots and minute 

 rudiments of leaves, similar to "witches' broomis." (Natural size.) 



