A Tobacco Hybrid 



In hybridizing the Petunia and the Tobacco, Mr. Burbank 



used the tobacco as the mother parent. The offspring at first 



resembled the tobacco plant, but subsequently they showecl great diversity 



oj Jorm, some oj them becoming trailers like the petunia. The sped' 



men here shoivn is a hybrid between two relatives of the tobacco, 



the Nicotiana Wigandoides rubra and the Nicotiana 



glauca. The crossing of the petunia and the 



tobacco has peculiar interest because the 



plants belong to different genera. 



