38 TOBACCO LEAF. 



JOHNSON GREEN. Said to be a cross of Orinoco 

 and White Stem ; large, heavy leaf, strong flavor ; strips 

 and shipping leaf. Virginia. 



KITE-FOOT. Bather short, wide leaf, thin, apt to 

 cure a greenish color unless fully ripe ; for very common 

 cigars ; culture decreasing. Indiana. 



LACKS. Heavy weight on strong soils ; used for 

 making yellow tobacco in Virginia, and heavy tobacco 

 in Kentucky ; well colored, broad leaf, fine fiber ; a 

 strong grower. Kentucky, Virginia. Plate XIV. 



LITTLE DUTCH. Very narrow leaf, small, thick 

 and short, in flavor resembling Yara tobacco ; for bind- 

 ers and fillers for cigars ; once very popular in the 

 Miami valley of Ohio, but now discarded, along with 

 seedleaf, and Zimmer's Spanish is mainly grown. 



LONG GREEN. Coarse and heavy, vigorous grower ; 

 heavy shipping leaf. Virginia. 



LANCASTER BROADLEAF. Upright grower, deli- 

 cate, silky fiber ; cigar wrappers, binders and fillers, 

 smokers. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. 



LOVELADT. Long, dark, narrow leaf, very heavy ; 

 export, grown for African shippers. Virginia, Tennes- 

 see, Indiana. 



MANN. Leaf of good body, heavy and gummy; 

 plug wrappers and fillers, export. North Carolina. 



ORINOCO, SHORT. Broad leaf, upright growth and 

 open habit, light colored, much ruffled ; plug wrappers 

 and fillers, for strips and for export leaves. Virginia, 

 Missouri. 



ORINOCO, BIG. Short, broad leaf, doubtless orig- 

 inally same as last named ; sweet plug wrappers and 

 fillers, export. Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, West Virginia. 



ORINOCO, YELLOW. Long, narrow, tapering leaf, 

 fine texture, stands up well ; principally for plug work 



