A04 MANILLA TOBACCO, 
months are carefully cultivated, when the top is broken off 
and the leaves allowed to ripen. In some respects, Manilla 
tobacco is one of the best varieties of the plant cultivated, 
and were it not for its non-burning quality, it would have 
but few rivals among cigar tobaccos.* We have thus, at 
some length, described nearly half of the varieties of tobacco. 
now being cultivated. There are, however, others as well 
known and of equal value and favor. Some of these are of 
superior quality and of world-widerepute. Of those described, 
the varieties grown in the tropics are the most celebrated and 
of the finest flavor. As when first discovered, the tobaccos of 
the tropics command the highest prices, and possess qual- 
ities not easily transmitted when grown in a temperate clime. 
*« The soil of many of the islands especially of the Bisayas is favorable to the growth of 
tobacco. The island of Negros formerly produced some of very good quality.” 
