CHAPTEK XI. 



VARIETIES. 



'HE tobacco plant almost vies with the palm in the 

 number of varieties ; botanists having enumerated as 

 many as forty, which by no means includes the entire 

 number now being cultivated. The plant shows also 

 a great variety of forms, leaves, color of flowers, and texture. 

 Each kind has some peculiar feature or quality not found in 

 another ; thus, one variety will have large leaves, while 

 another will have small ones ; one kind leaves flowers of a 

 pink or yellow color, another white ; one variety will produce 

 a leaf black or brown, another yellow or dark red. The 

 following list includes nearly all of the principal varieties 

 now cultivated : Connecticut seed leaf (broad and narrow 

 leaf), New York seed leaf, Pennsylvania (Duck Island), Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland (Pry or and Frederick, James River, 

 etc.), North Carolina (Yellow Orinoco, and Gooch or Pride 

 of Granville, etc.), Ohio Seed leaf (broad leaf), Ohio leaf 

 (Thick Set, Pear Tree, Burley, and White), Texas, Louisiana 

 (Perique), Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, Havana, 

 Yara, Mexican, St. Domingo, Columbia (Columbian, Giron, 

 Esmelraldia, Palmyra, Ambolima), Bio Grande, Brazil, 

 Orinoco, Paraguay, Porto Rico, Arracan, Greek, Java, 

 Sumatra, Japan, Hungarian, China, Manilla, Algerian, Tur- 

 key, Holland (Amersfoort), Syrian (Latakia), French (St. 

 Omer), Russian, and Circassian. Many of these varieties 

 are well known to commerce, and others are hardly known 

 outside the limit of their cultivation. 



All of these varieties may be divided into three classes,* 



Probably most writers would divide tobacco into but two classes .Including tobacco used 

 for the manufacture of snuff with cut tobacco. 



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