CHAPTER XI. 
VARIETIES. 
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3 number of varieties; botanists having enumerated as 
“KX many as forty, which by no means includes the entire 
+ number now being cultivated. The plant shows also 
a great variety of forms, leaves, color of flowers, and texture. 
Each kind has some peculiar feature or quality not found in 
another; thus, one variety will have large leaves, while 
another will have small ones; one kind leaves flowers of a 
pink or yellow color, another white ; one variety will produce 
a leaf black or brown, another yellow or dark red. The 
following list includes nearly all of the principal varieties 
now cultivated :—Connecticut seed leaf (broad and narrow 
leaf), New York seed leaf, Pennsylvania (Duck Island), Vir- 
ginia and Maryland (Pryor and Frederick, James River, 
etc.), North Carolina (Yellow Orinoco, and Gooch or Pride 
of Granville, etc.), Ohio Seed leaf (broad leaf), Ohio leaf 
(Thick Set, Pear Tree, Burley, and White), Texas, Louisiana 
(Perique), Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, Havana, 
Yara, Mexican, St. Domingo, Columbia (Columbian, Giron, 
Esmelraldia, Palmyra, Ambolima), Rio Grande, Brazil, 
Orinoco, Paraguay, Porto Rico, Arracan, Greek, Java, 
Sumatra, Japan, Hungarian, China, Manilla, Algerian, Tur- 
key, Holland (Amersfoort), Syrian (Latakia), French (St. 
Omer), Russian, and Circassian. Many of these varieties 
are well known to commerce, and others are hardly known 
outside the limit of their cultivation. — 
All of these varieties may be divided into three classes,* 
HE tobacco plant almost vies with the palm in the 
*Probably most writera would divide tobacco into but two classes, including tobacco used 
forthe manufacture of snuff with cut tobacco. 
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