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the height of eight feet, bearing leaves about two feet in 

 length by one foot in width, is an erect, strong, growing 

 tobacco with a small, hard stalk and stout, long roots. The 

 plant, when growing, imparts a strong aromatic odor not 

 unlike Havana tobacco, but is larger everyway, and of inferior 

 flavor for cigars. By repeated trials its superiority has been 

 demonstrated to a certainty, while the profit arising from its 

 culture proves it worthy of attention from all cultivators of 

 tobacco. 



When cured the leaf is very fine and light of color, the 

 stem and veins of the leaf are small, thus fitting it for a good 

 wrapper as well as filler. If the tobacco growers in the 

 Connecticut valley can succeed in raising this variety, they 

 will produce a leaf tobacco much superior to the common 

 variety known as seed leaf. Beyond all question a much 

 finer flavored tobacco than Connecticut seed leaf can be 

 grown, and still retain all of the excellencies of the latter, 

 such as color, texture, and size of leaf. 



TURKISH TOBACCO. 



The tobacco of Turkey has been called by some enthusiastic 

 smoker " the king of tobaccos.," but whether it possesses this 

 royal preeminence over all other varieties must be decided 

 by other than ourselves. That it is a fine smoking tobacco, 

 no one can doubt that ever " put breath " to the favored pipe 

 that contains the yellow shreds, but we should prefer by far 

 to part with it rather than with its great rival, Havana 

 tobacco. 



The plant is not as large as many varieties, but grows up 

 strong and flourishes well on account of the care and attention 

 given it by the Turk and his family, as it is in all respects a 

 family plant, and the flower garden is generally the tobacco 

 field. Turkey tobacco ranges in color from brown to light 

 yellow, the latter being the most in demand. This variety 

 is similar in flavor to Latakia and Shiraz, and these three 

 tobaccos, Persian, Syrian, and Turkish, are considered the finest 

 and best adapted of all tobaccos for the pipe. The work of 

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