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The Connecticut seed-leaf is the kind grown in jS^ew York, almost ex- 

 clusively in Onondaga, Chemung, and Steuben. The best quality is 

 used for cigar- wrappers ; and the coarser and imperfect stock is manu 

 factored into smoking or chewing, and some of the refuse is ground into 

 snutfs. A cross from Havana seed is mainly grown in Bucks County^ 

 Pennsylvania, much resembling imported Cuba tobacco. 



The Maryland tobacco is of two principal varieties, the broad-leaf 

 and the narrow-leaf. The former commands a higher jirice; the latter 

 yields a larger quantity. Much of it is exported; a large order is 

 usually filled for the French government. It sells at a moderate price^ 

 has no peculiar value for wrappers, and is used for cigar-fillings, ordi- 

 nary snuffs, twist and plug chewing, and for manufactured smoking 

 brands. In Montgomery County a kind known as Bay tobacco is grown. 

 The Big Pryor variety is deemed the best in Botetourt County, Virginia ; 

 the Blue Pryor is popular in Amelia. The White-stem, a dark-colored 

 shipping tobacco, is quite extensively grown in strong, heavy lands, 

 finding a good market in England. The Cumberland correspondent 

 claims that as the banner county for shipping and stemming tobacco. A 

 fine grade of tobacco is made from Orinoco seed. The Frederick, a vig- 

 orous grower, is cured to a dark "nutmeg color," and is principally shipped 

 to Europe. The crop of Montgomery has a large leaf which cures bright, 

 antl is useful for wrappers, with careful assorting. The red lauds gen- 

 erally produce too coarse and strong a quality for cigars or fine chewing 

 brands, but suitable for shipping. Several kinds are grown in Henry, 

 but growers aim to produce a bright, yellow leaf, suitable for plug 

 chewing-tobacco. The new lands, and old fields on which fertilizers are 

 used, yield a light yellow, manufacturing grade. 



The soil of several counties in North Carolina, near the Virginia line, 

 is peculiarly adapted to the i^roduction of light-colored and high-priced 

 wrappers. Person, Caswell, aud Granville claim to "surpass any other 

 portion of the United States in adaptation to the growth of the first and 

 most remuuerative grades of tobacco." The average price of the last 

 crop in Person (Jouuty is placed at 30 cents, of the Gooch, White-stem, 

 Yellow Pryor, Big Orinoco, aud Little Orinoco varieties. The first is 

 'distinguished by fine texture and small fiber, and is successfully grown 

 on light, sandy soil, almost valueless for grain or grass, aud brings from 

 40 cents to $2 per pound for wrappers. The White-stem is second in 

 quality. Yellow Pryor third, and Big Orinoco fourth. The respective 

 area of each in cultivation widens in the order named, except that the 

 Pryor's liability to injury from frost is driving it from the field. All 

 these are usually coal-cured and used for wrappers. The Little Orinoco 

 is coarse-grained, grown on rich soils for weight rather than quality, not 

 adapted to yellowing, and air-cured or dried with wood fires, is used for 

 fillers, and sells at 15 to 25 cents. It is reddish brown in color ; some- 

 times nearly black. In Caswell the broad-leaf Orinoco is most culti- 

 vated, though some prefer the Yellow Pryor variety, less in weight and 

 richness, but of finer texture. Light lemon-color commands the high- 

 est price. The White stem and Orinoco are mainly cultivated in 

 Stokes. 



Gadsden County, Florida, has produced for forty years a variety 

 grown from seed obtained in Cuba, having a small, narrow leaf, and pos- 

 sessing to a remarkable degree the peculiar aroma and delicate fragrance 

 so highly prized in the Havana cigar. Since the advent of German 

 buyers an article was introduced which produces the " Florida wrapper,"^ 

 and is now the main growth. Its leaves are sometimes three feet in 

 length and twenty inches in breadth, of a fine silky texture, admirably 



