COTTON STRUCTURE 



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FIG. 121. A VEGETATIVE BRANCH 

 FROM NEAR THE BASE OF A COTTON 

 PLANT. 



Showing that the boll-stems are not 

 borne directly on the vegetative branch, 

 but on secondary branches springing 

 from it. 



the plant. Between cluster cotton and wide-spreading, 

 long-limb kinds there are all gradations in length of 

 branches. 



Each branch arises from the main stem in the angle be- 



