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 showed great diversity 

 of form, some oj them becoming trailers like the petunia. The speci- 

 men here shown 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. 



