Bui. 1030, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XI. 



Variant Forms of Meade Cotton Plants. 



The 



A typical open plant is sliown at the left, and an undesirable semiclnster plant at the right, 

 desirable type of Meade plant is of open growth with rather long jointed fruiting branches 

 having 15 to 20 bolls. Many of the imdesirable plants are short jointed or "semiclnster," often 

 bearing good crops, but usually producing short fiber and fuzzy or "tight" seeds. 



