OTHER FARM CROPS 553 



Rio Grande varieties having practically no naked seed, but 

 having many seed so scantily clothed with fuzz that the dark seed 

 coat shows through, giving a brown color, are the following: Berry- 

 hill, Borden, Dearing, (probably) Eureka, Excelsior (?), Favorite, 

 (probably) Gregg, Lay ton, Park's Own, Speight, and (probably) 

 Toole. 



King-like Varieties, or King Type. The varieties of this group 

 are the earliest of American cottons. The plants are usually small 

 but may be of medium size. The limbs are numerous and the fruit 

 limbs 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 (Quercus marylandica) . The base 

 limbs are short and sometimes replaced by fruit limbs bearing a 

 number of bolls on each. King is essentially a short jointed, com- 

 pact plant with an abundance of slender, rather crooked limbs. The 

 bolls of this group are small ; the seed 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, 

 Lowry, Mascot, Missionary, and probably Shine Early. 



Big Boll Varieties or Truitt Types. The character which es- 

 pecially distinguishes this class is the large size of bolls, of which only 

 45 to 68 are required to yield a pound of seed cotton. Other spe- 

 cially notable qualities are late maturity and vigorous growth of 

 stalk. The seed are large or very large, and covered with a thick fuzz, 

 generally brownish w r hite or whitish, a part of the seed of many of 

 these varieties being covered with a deep green fuzz. The per cent of 

 lint often runs rather low and is usually between 31 and 34. The 

 bolls are not closely clustered ; in some varieties the upper limbs are 

 so short as to give the top of the plant the erect, slender appearance 

 which is common among semi-cluster varieties. In typical plants the 

 base limbs are of short or medium length, the number of fruit limbs 

 and bolls relatively few, and the main stem is rather short. How- 

 ever, a number of varieties are included here that have all or many 

 of their plants of the semi-cluster form. 



The following varieties belong in this group: Alex. Allen, 

 Anderson, Bancroft, Banks, Berry, Bohemian, Brown No. 1 (?), 

 Cheise, Christopher, Cleveland, Cliett, Cook Improved (?), Coppedge, 

 Culpepper, Diamond, Double Header, Dongola, Drake (Ala.), Dun- 

 can, Ellis, Grayson, Gunn, Haralson, Hunnicutt Big Boll, Hutchin- 

 son, Jones, Langford, Lee, Maddox, Montclare, Mortgage, Lifter, 

 Ozier Big Boll, Reliable, Rogers, Rowden, Ruralist, Russell, Scogin, 

 Sewell, Schley, Smith Improved, Smith Standard, Southern Wonder, 

 Spearman, Strickland, Tatum, Texas Bur, Texas Storm Proof, 

 Thrash, Todd, Triumph, Truitt, Webber-Russell, Whitten, and 

 Wyche. 



Long Limb Upland Varieties, or Petit Gulf Type. The varie- 

 ties in this case grow to large size and have long limbs and long 



