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are rather long in proportion to the height 

 of plant. The fruit limbs are often crooked 

 at the joints, reminding one of the crooked 

 twigs of a black jack oak. The base limbs 

 are short and sometimes replaced by fruit 

 limbs bearing a number of bolls on each. 

 King is essentially a short-jointed, compact 

 plant with an abundance of slender, rather 

 crooked limbs. The bolls of this group are 

 small; the seeds are usually small and thickly 

 covered with fuzz which is usually brownish, 

 with an occasional seed showing a greenish 

 tint. The percentage of lint is usually 33 

 to 35, and sometimes higher. King and its 

 synonyms have on many blooms a red spot 

 near the base of the inner portion of each petal. 

 The varieties of this group are: Dozier, Grier, 

 Golddust, Hodge, King, Simpkins, Lowry, 

 Mascot, Missonary, and probably Shine Early. 

 Group V: Big Boll Varieties or Truitt 

 Types. The character which especially dis- 

 tinguishes this class is the large size of bolls, 

 of which only 45 to 68 are required to yield a 

 pound of seed cotton. Other specially nota- 

 ble qualities are late maturity and vigorous 

 growth of stalk. The seeds are large or very 



