ORONOKO TOBACCO. 475 
most in favor being the yellow Oronoko, and the G 
Pride of Granville. The first is the kind that gave ae 
to the Caswell (North Carolina) yellow tobacco more than 
twenty years ago, and is still preferred by a very large 
number of planters who grow the finest yellow smokers and 
wrappers. The latter is preferred in Granville county 
North Carolina, that produces the finest yellow tobacco 
grown on this continent, or, perhaps, in the world. This 
latter is clearly an Oronoko tobacco, very much resemblin 
the former, except that the leaf grows rather broader, and by 
some is considered sweeter. These two kinds have been 
grown with special reference to their adaptation to producing 
the finest quality of wrappers, smokers, and fillers. I am 
satisfied that the art of curing and management have not only 
been very far advanced toward scientific perfection, but that 
in perfecting the kinds of seed grown much improvement has 
been made. For instance, in the saving of seed, by adopting 
the plan of turning out the forwardest plants growing in the 
best soil, and afterwards observing to cut off all the heads of 
plants that ripen up coarse, narrow or ill-shaped, or of a 
green color on the hill, and saving only those heads that ripen 
ellow in color and of a smooth and fine texture, much has 
lean done to improve the kind. Besides, the most important 
point in the saving of tobacco seed is to cut off all the lateral 
shoots, leaving only three crown shoots to perfect seed, 
thereby securing larger pods and more perfect seed that 
always ripen in good time, and are more reliable for seed 
beds and the production of early, vigorous plants. 
“By following this mode of saving seed with special 
reference to the growth of a particular class of tobacco, in a 
few years the seed is not only greatly improved, but as like 
begets like in the vegetable as in the animal kingdom, 
becomes sui generis—the first of its species. The writer can 
bear testimony to the above facts and desires that others may 
profit thereby. Where any plant attains its highest perfec- 
tion, there is the place to secure the best seed. The home of 
the tobacco plant is in Virginia and North Carolina, and the 
growth and perfection of the kinds here cultivated have 
reached a point unattained any where else. The West and 
South would do well to procure their seed from us, and then 
save and propagate after the instructions above given.” 
SECOND GROWTH. 
The first account we find of raising a second crop of tobacco 
