PLATE IX. WHITE BTJBLEY (topped). 



Wilted when photographed, but the peculiar appearance of the nar- 

 row-leafed or twist-bud sub-variety is well represented. Grown at 

 Kentucky experiment station, Fayette county, on soil not espe- 

 cially adapted to tobacco. The crop on this exhausted soil, when 

 fertilized with potash, is as large as on typical tobacco land. 

 Hight 'of this plant, 35 inches ; average top leaf, 21 inches long, 8 

 inches wide; middle leaves, 32x11 inches; lower leaves, smaller 

 and variable. This sub-variety holds its leaves straight up, while 

 in the White Burley, shown in Plates VII and VIII, the leaves hang 

 down, often touching the ground when ripe. 



