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SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS 



FIG. 124. COTTON PLANT ON WHICH THE VEGETATIVE BRANCH is 

 SUPPRESSED AT EVERY NODE EXCEPT WHERE THE TWO LOWEST 

 (VEGETATIVE) BRANCHES ORIGINATE. 



branch, and the other a vegetative or so-called sterile 

 branch. At many of the nodes one or the other of these 

 branches fails to develop conspicuously, and is represented 

 merely by a tiny shoot or bud (Fig. 124.) If a vegeta- 



