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The Alabama Station has classified short staple upland cotton 

 into six classes to which it adds long staple upland varieties as 

 a seventh class, as follows: 



Upland 

 Cotton 



Short 

 Staple 



Long 

 - Staple 



Cluster varieties 

 or Dickson type 



Semi-cluster varieties 

 or Peerless type 



Rio Grande varieties 

 or Peterkin type 



Short Limb varieties 

 or King type 



Big Boll varieties 

 or Duncan type 



Long Limb varieties or 

 Petit Gulf type 



J Long Staple varieties 

 or Allen type 



( Dickson 

 \ Jackson 

 I Welborn 



f Boyd 

 j Cummings 

 Drake 



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! TIo-rlj-.'^K, T3 



Hawkins Prolific 



Hawkins Jumbo 



Herndon 



Minor 



Norris 



Tyler 



Peterkin 



Peterkin Limb Cluster 



Texas Wood 



Wise 



King 

 Lowry 

 Parks 

 Herlong 



Banks 

 Christopher 

 Coppedge 

 Culpepper 

 Duncan 

 Grayson 

 Tones Improved 

 Lee 



Russell. 

 Scroggins 

 Strickland 

 Texas Storm Proof 

 Thrash 

 Truitt 

 L Pruitt Premium 



Ellis 

 Gunn 

 Petit Gulf 

 Cheise 



Allen Hybrid 



Allen Improved 



Cook (W. A.) 



Doughty 



Griffin 



Improved Long Staple 



Matthews 



Moon 



The lines of demarcation between these groups are not al- 

 ways clear and distinct, one group often merging into another 

 by an almost imperceptible gradation. 1 



i Alabama Station Bui. No. 107 (1899), p. 202. 



