Bui. 96, Bu'o.iu of Plant Industry, U, S. Dept, nf A^ncultute. 



Plate VI 



Fig. 1.— Four Tobacco Plants of the Same Age, Showing Variation in Time 



OF Maturity. 



Fig. 2.— Two Rows of Connecticut Broadleaf Tobacco, Showing the Possi- 

 bility OF the Production of Early Strains. Row on Right Raised from 

 the Seed of an Early Plant, and Row on Left from Seed of a Plant 

 Maturing at the Usual Time. 



