402 JAPANESE TOBACCO. 
cultivating a field of Turkish tobacco is very tedious, as large 
quantities of water have to be carried to sprinkle upon the 
plants. The finest colored, a pale yellow leaf, brings 
“inflated” prices, but more oten by others than the poor 
Turk who grows it. 
JAPAN TOBACCO. 
Of the tobacco of Asia, the best known in Europe is the 
yellow leaf grown in Japan. 
In those provinces where a 
high degree of temperature 
prevails, the plant lives 
throughout the winter, but it 
is nevertheless customary to 
sow fresh seed in the early 
spring of each successive year. 
When fully grown, Japan 
tobacco attains an altitude of 
about six feet, bearing leaves 
long and pointed, completely 
fr ansen, enveloping the stalk. The 
yamin moRTeed: leaves, however, differ in form 
in different provinces, some 
being round and wide, others narrow and pointed, and others 
thick and long. 
The mode of cultivating . also varies in the different prov- 
inces. The sowing and transplanting are dependent on the 
temperature of the locality, and each place follows its own 
customs. In autumn a great number of flowers spring from 
the tip of the stalk. These are about an inch in length, and 
of a pale purple tint. To these succeed small round capsules, 
inside of which are three small chambers containing a great 
number of light red seeds. The method of cultivation is novel, 
the manuring of tobacco differing from that of other plants 
in that it is plentifully applied both to the roots and leaves. 
GUATEMALA TOBACCO, 
The tobacco of Central America, though possessing consid- 
erable excellence, has never become an important product, 
