340 MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES. 



being four feet apart, up and down. In this way, a building 

 forty feet by twenty-two will cure an acre and a half of To- 

 bacco. The drying-shed should be provided with several 

 doors on either side for the free admission of air." 



When the stalk is well dried (which is about the last of 

 November or the beginning of December), select a damp 

 day ; remove the plants from the poles ; strip off the leaves 

 from the stalk^and form them into small bunches, or hanks, 

 by tying the leaves of two or three plants together, winding a 

 leaf about them near the ends of the stems ; then pack down 

 while still damp, lapping the tips of the hanks, or bunches, 

 on each other, about a third of their length, forming a stack 

 with the buts, or ends, of the leaf-stems outward ; cover the 

 top of the stack, but leave the ends or outside of the mass 

 exposed to the air. In cold weather, or by midwinter, it 

 will be ready for market ; for which it is generally packed 

 in damp weather, in boxes containing from two to fotfr hun- 

 dred pounds. 



A fair average yield per acre is from fourteen to eighteen 

 hundred pounds. 



To save Seed. " Allow a few of the best plants to stand 

 without removing the flowering-shoots. In July and Au- 

 gust, they will have a fine appearance ; and, if the season 

 be favorable, each plant will produce as much seed as will 

 sow a quarter of an acre by the drill system, or stock half 

 a dozen acres by transplanting." A single capsule, or seed- 

 pod, contains a thousand seeds. 



Green Leaves oval, from seven to ten inches long, 



. and six or seven inches broad, produced on 

 long petioles. Compared with the preced- 

 ing species, they are much smaller, deeper 

 colored, more glossy, thicker, and more succulent. When 

 fully grown, the plant is of a pyramidal form, and about 

 three feet in height ; the flowers are numerous, greenish- 

 yellow, tubular, and nearly entire on the borders ; the 



