168 TOBACCO LEAF. 



found, by actual count, 378,000 to 389,000 seed in one 

 ounce of Tennessee-grown Burley leaf ; each large seed 

 pod, when properly fertilized and fully developed, con- 

 tained about 5000 seeds, and an average head contained 

 eighty pods. An ounce of Havana seedleaf seed grown 

 in Massachusetts contained 287,600 seeds, and 308,820 

 were found in an ounce of seed of Havana leaf tobacco 

 grown at Poquonock. A single plant can produce seed 

 enough to set 250 acres, if all the seed germinated and 

 the plants all thrived. 



