88 COTTON 
Ill. RIO GRANDE—PETERKIN TYPE 
Plants well branched and medium in size; bolls 
small; seed black, quite small and bare of fuzz 
except at tip end; medium maturing; percentage 
of lint large, usually 35. 
Important Varieties of Group: 
Peterkin Texas Wood 
Peterkin’s Limb Cluster Wise 
Excelsior Texas Oak 
IV. SHORT LIMB—KING TYPE 
Plants small and well branched at both base and 
top; limbs short; bolls small; seed medium in size 
and thickly covered with fuzz of brownish (and 
sometimes of greenish) shade; quite early maturing; 
percentage of lint from 32 to 34. 
Important Varieties of Group: 
King King’s Improved No. 1 
Lowry King’s Improved No. 2 
V. BIG BOLL—DUNCAN TYPE 
Plants large, heavy and strong; well limbed at 
base, but upper limbs short; bolls very large; seeds 
large and covered with thick fuzz, whitish in color; 
