252 



SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS 



Fig. 124. — Cotton Pl.\n"t on which the Veget.\tive BB.\NrH is 



SUPPRESSED AT EVERY XoDE EXCEPT WHERE THE TwO LoWEST 



(Vegetative) Branches OKiGiN.iTE. 



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

 branch. At manj^ 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- 



