Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) lines exhibiting stovepipe growth habit (short fruiting branches, shortened internode length, and reduced number of vegetative branches) were selected from a population of HS 200, which had undergone chemical mutagenesis. Mutagenesis was accomplished by exposing imbibed seed to a 3% v/v concentration of Ethyl Methanesulfonate (EMS). In 1997, a replicated progeny test of two M₄ lines which exhibited the stovepipe phenotype was conducted at Lubbock, TX to ensure this trait was genetically stable. Progeny from 13 M₅ lines exhibited 100% expression of the stovepipe growth habit and progeny from 31 M₅ lines exhibited greater than 90% expression of the stovepipe growth habit. These data indicate that the stovepipe phenotypes selected from a chemically mutated population of HS 200 were highly heritable and after phenotypic selection appeared to be genetically stable.