26 ; THE CAPSULE AND SEED. 
flowers than European tobaccos or those of Africa or Asia. 
The color of the flowers remain the same whether cultivated 
in one country or another while the leaves may grow larger 
or smaller according to the system of cultivation adopted. 
Those varieties of the plant with heart-shaped leaves have 
paniculated flowers with unequal cups. The flower stems on 
the American varicties are much longer than those of Enro- 
pean tobaccos and also larger. The season has much to do 
with the size of the flowers; as if very dry they are usually 
smaller and not as numerousas if grown under more favorable 
circumstances. 
THE CAPSULE. 
As soon as the flowers drop from the fruit bud the 
capsules grow very rapidly until they have attained full 
size—which occurs only in those plants which have been 
left for seed and remain untopped. When topped they are 
not usually full grown—as some growers top the plants when 
just coming into blossom, while others prefer to top the 
plants when in full bloom and others still when the blossoms 
begin to fall. The fruit is described by Wheeler “as a capsule: 
of a nearly oval figure. There is a line on each side of it, 
and it contains two cells, and opens at the top. The recepta- 
cles one of a half-oval figure, punctuated and affixed to the sep- 
arating body. The seeds are numerous, kidney-shaped, and 
rugose.” : 
Most growers of the plant would describe the fruit bud as 
follows: In form resembling an acorn though more pointed 
at the top; in some species, of a dark brown in others of a 
light brown color, containing two cells filled with seeds 
similar in shape to the fruit bud, but not rugose as described 
by some botanists. Some writers state that each cell contains 
about one thousand seeds. The fruit buds of Connecticut. 
Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio Tobacco as well as of most of 
the varieties grown within the limits of the United States are 
much larger than those of Tlavana, Yara, Syrian, and 
numerous other species of the plant, while the color of these 
last named varieties is a lighter shade of brown. The color 
