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STUDIES IN INDIAN TOBACCOS. 



110 cm., that of Type 16, 125.2 cm., with a range "of 110 to 

 140 cm. The heights in the Fo generation varied from 48 cm. 

 to 215 cm., and the plot presented an extraordinary mixture 

 of dwarf and tall forms. Plate XIII shows some of the F. forms, 

 photographed at an equal distance from the camera. A large 

 number of plants were self-pollinated and twelve cultures from 

 these were raised in the F, generation. These cultures could be 

 easily divided by eye into three groups, those in which all the 

 plants were short, that is, no taller than either parent, Nos. 251, 



Mean height Type 9-1912, 79 9 cm 



Type 51—1912, 1954 cm. 



F, Typo 9 X Type 51—1912, 158 cm. 



F, culture 740—1912, 195 2 cm. 



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