CLASSES, TYPES, AND VARIETIES OF THE TOBACCO PLANT. 



CHAPTER II. 

 CLASSIFICATION TYPE MAPS VARIETIES OF THE TOBACCO PLANT. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



The various types of tobacco produced in different sections are treated locally in the districts in which they 

 are severally grown. They are here grouped into a distinct classification, according to differences in character and 

 use, the modes and forms of manufacture, and of consumption. While each distinct soil formation gives peculiar 

 qualities to the plant as to texture, color, flavor, and general structure, these may be modified by culture and curing 

 into still greater variations of character. A knowledge of what quality or property is wanting may enable the 

 grower so to apply his fertilizers, or to manage the curing process, as greatly to enhance the value of the product ; 

 and a want of this knowledge may also cause the grower to destroy, by imperfect cultivation or curing, the very 

 quality which gives the product its highest value. 



Commercial circles recognize classes, types, and grades. The basis of a class is its adaptation to a certain 

 purpose; the basis of a type is the combination of certain qualities or properties in the leaf, as color, strength, 

 elasticity, body, flavor, etc., or in the methods of curing, as sun-cured, air-cured, flue-cured, etc. Grades represent the 

 different degrees of excellence in a type, as low, medium, good, or fillers, binders, and wrappers. In the yellow fancy 

 type there may be ten or twelve of these grades, while in some heavy, coarse shipping tobacco only two are made, leaf 

 and lugs. A district may produce only one type, which may be referred to several classes. The yellow tobacco, 

 for instance, is one type, yet it is used both for smoking and for chewing, and is therefore put into two classes ; if 

 exported, it would be put into three classes. A district may also produce many types of the same class, as in 

 New England, where several types of seed-leaf and Havana seed are produced, yet they all belong to cigar tobacco, 

 and are used solely for that purpose. Again, a locality may produce one type of one class. 



In the following schedule of classification no attempt is made to divide into separate classes that portion of 

 the crop taken for exportation. All this is thrown together into one class, called export tobacco, though the types 

 suited for the different countries are given. 



Connecticut Seed-Leaf. 

 " New England " Seed-Leaf. 

 Pennsylvania Seed-Loaf. 

 New York Seed-Leaf. 



CLASSES, TYPES, AND SUB-TYPES. 



CLASS I. DOMESTIC CIGAK TOBACCO AND SMOKERS. 



Seed-leaf and Havana Keen. 



Ohio Seed- Leaf. 

 Wisconsin and Illinois Sm'd 

 Florida Seed-Leaf. 



Other cigar and smoking tobacco. 



White Burloy lugs. 

 American-grown Havana. 

 Perique. 



Common Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Eastern Ohio, Maryland, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois Ings. 



Kentucky and Indiana cheroot and stogie wrappers and fillers. 

 Fine-fibered Clarksville wrappers. 

 Indiana Kite-Foot. 



CLASS II. CHEWING TOBACCO. 

 Fine-cut and plug fillers. 



Fine-cut Burley. 



Fine-cut Mason county. 



White Burley fillers. 



Red Burley fillers. 



Virginia sun- and air-cured fillers. 



Virginia yellow and mahogany. 

 North Carolina yellow and mahogany. 

 Western Kentucky yellow. 

 Hart county (Kentucky) bright and yellow 

 Henry county (Tennessee) yellow. 

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Virginia flue-cured fillers. 



Missouri air-cured fillers. 



Kentucky, Indiana,Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland,andWest Virginia 



fire-cured fillers. 

 Tennessee and Kentucky air-cured fillers. 



Plug wrappfn. 



Missouri and Arkansas yellow. 

 West Virginia yellow. 

 Clarksville and Missouri dark and red. 

 Mason county (Kentucky) Burley. 



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