THE CUBA REVIEW 



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View in True Vuelta Abajo. In the Background the Hoyo de ^^lonterey Farm, 

 Home of the Celebrated Jose Garner Tobaccos. 



variations of the soil found in tlie different tobacco sections wliere they are grown^ 

 and these tobaccos, differing so radically in character, lend themselves, of course,, 

 to different purposes. The tobacco growing sections of Cuba are known as Vuelta 

 Abajo, which includes the relatively small true Vuelta Abajo section around San 

 Luis and San Juan in the province of Pinar del Rio ; a much larger area known 

 loosely as Vuelta Abajo, covering the area to the west and north of San Juan and 

 San Luis and also extending slightly to the east of these towns ; Semi Vuelta, ex- 

 tending from the border of the so-called Vuelta Abajo area practically up to Artemisa y 

 Partidos, beginning with Artemisa and taking in the tobacco growing sections of" 

 eastern Pinar del Rio Province and all of Havana ; and Vuelta Arriba, which in 

 reality takes in all the tobacco growing sections of the Province of Santa Clara, in 

 which tobacco is produced largely around the towns of Remedies (whence comes the' 

 term "Remedios tobacco," frequently applied to the product of all Santa Clara 

 Province), Camajuani, Placetas, Santa Clara, Cabaiguan, Sancti Spiritus, and- 

 Manicaragua. 



Space permits us to give only a very brief outline of the varying characteristics 

 of the tobaccos produced in these sections. Vuelta Abajo tol^acco is, of course, con- 



Cautero Seedbeds, Consolacicn del Sur, Pinar del Rio Province. 



