. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application;. Plant breeding. 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 differen


. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application;. Plant breeding. 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Whitson, John; John, Robert; Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943; Luther Burbank society. New York, London, Luther Burbank Press


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