16 
BULLETIN 1365, V. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
SQUARE AND BOLL RECORDS FOR SPECIFIC NODES OF FRUITING 
BRANCHES BORNE BY VEGETATIVE LIMBS 
Data similar to those in the foregoing tables are presented in Table 
8 for the vegetative limbs produced by the 20 Pima plants in 1925. 
The fruiting branches borne by vegetative limbs of cotton are nor- 
mally shorter than those borne by the main stalks. It was accord- 
ingly found expedient to reduce the number of nodes considered in 
this table to three classes, the last of which includes the combined 
data for all nodes beyond the second. The percentage of squares 
shed from node 1 of the branches on the vegetative limbs was slightly 
higher than from node 1 of the branches on the main stalks, while 
the proportion that developed into mature bolls on this node of the 
fruiting branches of the vegetatives was 33 per cent less than on the 
corresponding node on the main-stalk fruiting branches. Square 
shedding from nodes 2 and 3 and from branches of but one node only 
was very much greater than from these nodes on the fruiting branches 
of the main stalks, and the proportion of squares to develop into 
mature bolls was necessarily very low. The last node of fruiting 
branches of two or more nodes on the vegetative limbs was only 
slightly different from the same class on the main stalks in 1925. 
Table 8. — Number of squares produced, shed, and developed into open bolls on specific 
nodes of fruiting branches on the vegetative limbs borne by the Pima main stalks 
shown in Table 6, season of 1925 
Nodel 
Node 2 
Nodes 3 to last 
Last node only 
Branches of 1 
node only 
Plant No. 
Squares 
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p. 
o 
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> 
s 
X> 
m 
O 
m 
Squares 
-3 
CD 
c 
O 
"3 
t> 
CD 
XS 
O 
pq 
Squares 
3< 
o 
> 
CD 
"o 
pq 
Squares 
X> 
o 
ft 
o 
© 
CD 
■d 
73 
P5 
Squares 
-a 
© 
o 
1 
© 
-3 
to 
*o 
PQ 
13 
© 
o 
3 
-3 
o 
(h 
Ph 
-3 
CD 
.q 
CO 
■a 
8 
3 
•d 
o 
£ 
T3 
CD 
co 
X} 
8 
3 
X> 
s 
Pw 
CD 
CO 
X) 
8 
3 
n 
2 
Ph 
■3 
CD 
CO 
8 
3 
-a 
o 
& 
xs 
© 
.a 
CO 
1 t06 
7 
2 

2 
2 
2 

2 
2 

10 
8 
8 
9 
9 
1 
8 
8 
7 
i 
5 
4 

8 
8 

5 
5 
10 
11 
6 
3 
1 
5 
5 

1 
1 

5 
5 

4 
4 
12_. 
13 
20 
16 
1 

7 
13 
18 
16 
17 
14 

i 
3 
6 
3 
6 


18 
16 
18 
16 


13 
15 
27 
9 
13 
15 
27 
9 
14__. _ .. 
15 
16 
5 
3 
1 
3 
2 

2 
2 

3 
3 

17- 
18 
9 
3 
5 
9 
7 
2 
6 
5 
1 
9 
8 
1 
4 
4 
19 
20 
3 
2 

2 
2 

2 
2 

4 I 3 
Total 
70 
13 
18.6 
37 
52.9 
63 
56 
88.9 
4 
6.3 
23 
21 
91.3 
1 
4.3 
63 
62 
98.4 
1 
1.6 
91 
88 
96.7 
2.2 
Percentage 
Data on the production of squares and bolls on the fruiting branches 
borne by the vegetative limbs of the 20 Acala plants in 1924 and 1925 
are given in Tables 9 and 10. As more long-jointed fruiting branches 
were developed on the limbs in 1925, data are shown for an addition! 
node that season. 
The shedding of squares from the fruiting branches of the vegeta- 
tive limbs of the Acala was similar to that on the vegetative limbs o: 
Pima, in that shedding from the first node was but little differenl 
