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Cuba, where it is stunted, and the leaves so small that cigar makers find 

 it difficult to work up a crop without buying wrappers. It is said that 

 large quantities of tobacco grown in Connecticut is sent to that market to 

 be used for that purpose. The finest leaf is grown in Canada, upon the 

 shores of Lake Erie, and is used entirely for wrappers, the leaves being 

 thin, silky and handsome colored. Large quantities of Cuba tobacco are 

 grown in Florida. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — There it does not improve. It is almost equal the 

 first year to that grown in Cuba; the second year it is not as good, and 

 the third year only about one-quarter higher priced than common tobacco. 

 The same results happen if seed is imported each year, and planted upon 

 the same ground, and the best or highest priced tobacco is only produced 

 upon certain soils. 



Mr. John G. Bergen. — That is also the case in Connecticut. Other parts 

 of the State will not produce such tobacco as that grown along the river; 

 and only a small portion of that is such as sells for the highest price for 

 wrappers. Tlie great object in tobacco raising is to get the leaf of a uni- 

 form color, 



Superior Winter Pears. 



Mr. Geo. H. Hite, of Morrisania, presented some Lawrence and some Pass 

 Colmar pears, in perfection for present use, grown upon dwarf trees in his 

 garden. He stated that he could only induce the Colmar to bear by trim- 

 ming on the spur system, and then the trees are productive, the fruit sound; 

 and none can doubt, who taste of these, that the quality is excellent and 

 fully equal to the Virgalieu. 



Mr. John G. Bergen. — I have tried to grow the Pass Colmar, but I pre- 

 sume the nurseryman who sold me the trees thought that I could not, and 

 therefore sent me Beurre Diel, 



Mr. Quinn. — The Pass Colmar is a very good bearer when it gets age, 

 and I must acknowledge that the quality is super-excellent, but the tree 

 grows unsightly, and is apt to shed its fruit very often; the fruit also 

 cracks. This is the reason it does not give satisfaction. The specimens 

 shown by Mr, Hite are very fine, but with me the cultivation is not profit- 

 able. The Lawrence is a healthy grower, bears good crops, and the fruit 

 is very sightly. It grows well on the quince. 



Mr. J. G. Bergen. — I have found the Lawrence pear tree a very healthy 

 and vigorous grower, either as a dwarf or a standard, 



Mr. Doughty. — The great fault with my Lawrence trees is their over- 

 bearing. 



Mr. Ilite," — That must be remedied by thinning. It is just as important 

 to prune off fruit as limbs. 



A Valuable Connecticut Apple. 



Mr. Joseph N. Hurlburt, No. 323, Broadway, presented specimens of a 

 very handsome and very excellent apple, from Winsted, Conn., which was 

 not recognized by any one present, including some good judges of fruit, 

 such as John G. Bergen, Wm, S. Carpenter, E. G. Pardee, Geo. H. Hite, P. 

 Quinn, E. P, Duughty, Dr. Trimble, Prof, Mapes and others, but was 



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