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SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS 



Fig. 124. — Cotton Pl.4.n-t on whioh the ^'EGET.^.TIVE Bn.vNcH is 

 suppressed at every node except -where the two lowest 

 (Vegetative) Branches Origin.ate. 



branch, and the other a vegetati^-e or so-called sterile 

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

 branches fails to develop conspicuously, and is reitresented 

 merely tiy a tiny shoot or bud (Fig. 124.) If a \'egeta- 



